Advanced Short Story Workshop Short Story Writing Workshop
Online Jul 28, Aug 11, Aug 18, Aug 25, Sep 8 (5 Monday Afternoons)5:00pm - 8:00pm Pacific$495Limited Spots
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You’ve learned the Short Story Basics, but how do you take your skills to the next level? In this 5-week Online Advanced Short Story Workshop, Lauren Acampora (Best American Short Stories, Paris Review) will show you how! Through fun in-class exercises, you’ll learn to how to evaluate your ideas, write glorious prose, and troubleshoot problematic arcs.
Lauren will teach you how to transform your rough drafts into literary gold. You’ll also take your short fiction skills into overdrive and learn subtext, dialogue, POV, mood, tone and the elusive perfect ending. Before you know it, you’ll be ready to join the ranks of the 236 students who have published short stories after taking this class. Pulitzer not included.
Prerequisites: Short Story 1 five-week class, Publishing Short Stories at Writing Pad or a long Short Story class elsewhere.
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Lauren Acampora
Best American Short Stories, Paris Review
Lauren Acampora's collection of linked stories, The Animal Room, is forthcoming in 2026, and her short fiction will appear in The Best American Short Stories 2025. Lauren’s writing has appeared in publications such as The Paris Review, New England Review, Missouri Review, Guernica, and The New York Times. She is also the author of three books of fiction, The Wonder Garden, The Paper Wasp, and The Hundred Waters, published by Grove Atlantic. Lauren’s books have won or been nominated for the GLCA New Writers Award, the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, the Story Prize, and the New England Book Award, and she’s been named an Artist Fellow in Fiction by The New York Foundation for the Arts. She’s received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, MacDowell, Ucross, Art OMI, the Ragdale Foundation, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. MORE