It’s not you, it’s your form. If you’re a CNF writer looking to try something formally fun, look no further than Ploi Pirapokin’s class on the lyric essay. Five classes, Zoom, starts Oct. 23! www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/clas...
In this course, we’ll combine elements of poetry and prose to look at how form, structure, and poetic devices can allude to, move through, and bind disparate-seeming threads and facts in our essays to...
Excited to be in conversation later this month with Xochitl Gonzalez and Sonora Jha on our respective campus novels! Join us via PEN/Faulkner on Zoom from 7-8:15 pm ET on Oct 30. www.penfaulkner.org/2024/09/16/c...
StoryStudio Writers Festival is ONE MONTH away! And it’s not too late to get your tix. Get excited to learn stuff, hobnob with some writerly peers, hang out with me & other StoryStudio folk, and listen to Mona Awad! www.storystudiochicago.org/storystudio-...
The 7th Annual Writers Festival, curated by Rebecca Makkai, will be in-person on November 2 & 3, 2024. Tickets on sale July 9.
Dun, dun, DUN! Gabino Iglesias is talking horror writing in his StoryStudio class. Should your project be spoooooky? Suspenseful? Gory? Let him lead the way (through a haunted house of ideas) on Zoom Oct 21! www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/clas...
In this class we will discuss the basic elements of horror fiction, explore some of the differences between various subgenres, and talk about some of the expectations readers have when reading horror.
The story came out 25(!) years ago. This was the first time anyone’s read Lahiri for the podcast; I hope I did it justice. www.newyorker.com/podcast/fict...
The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Third and Final Continent,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1999.
What does it take to lead a creative life every day? Chicago friends, join StoryStudio and Jami Attenberg at the Fine Arts Building Oct 29 for some ideas and perspectives for putting your own creativity first. www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/clas...
This workshop will share ideas and perspectives for putting your own creativity first: How can writers best serve their own creative processes? Where do you go for inspiration? How important is commun...
Shake up your nonfiction writing with David Stuart MacLean’s StoryStudio class by putting some poetry and fiction in the mix… Five classes, in person, starts Nov 4! www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/clas...
This 5-week class will seek to brew up a genre concoction consisting of poetry, non-fiction, and fiction as you seek to find new ways to tell your stories. Memoir Foundations will investigate how a me...
Anyway, join me over on my Subst*ck for more on all of this! rebeccamakkai.substack.com/p/hey-short-...
I especially want to urge people with story collections to submit to the Wildhouse competition. Small presses are great homes for these books!
