Short Story 2 Short Story Writing Workshop
Online Feb 6, Feb 20, Feb 27, Mar 6, Mar 20 (5 Thursday Afternoons)5:00pm - 8:00pm Pacific$4252 Spots Left
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You’ve learned the Short Story Basics, but how do you do you take your skills to the next level? In this 5-week Online advanced short story workshop, Amy Silverberg (Best American Short Stories, The Paris Review, 1 novel) 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.
Amy 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 234 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.
Amy Silverberg
Best American Short Stories, The Paris Review, 1 novel
Amy Silverberg is a writer and comedian based in Los Angeles. Her short fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories, The Paris Review, Granta, TriQuarterly, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Idaho Review, The Southern Review, The Colorado Review, and elsewhere. Her debut novel First Time, Long Time is forthcoming from Grand Central Publishing in 2025. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing & Literature from USC, where she currently teaches undergrads. MORE