This is an in-person workshop that takes place at Inprint House

Introduction to the Short Story

Over the course of six weeks, we will dedicate ourselves to learning and practicing key elements of storytelling and building blocks of the shorty story form, including characterization, form, plot, point of view, image, scene, and theme/metaphor. We will draw our lessons from exemplary stories and craft essays that highlight these elements, and we will compare stories that take varying approaches to these craft techniques.

Weekly writing prompts and in-class exercises will help you generate new writing or add new passages to your existing work. In this way, you will be able to build a new short story or radically revise one already in-progress. By the end of the course, you will have a deeper understanding of the fundamental elements required to build a story and will have received peer and instructor feedback on the writing you’ve generated throughout the course. This workshop is open to writers of all levels, providing practice and insights for those who are already working in the short story form, though it is particularly suited to those beginning to explore the craft of fiction and particularly the short story form in their writing.