PROGRAM
Blueprinting Criminal Behavior
Gary Phillips leads writers in an interactive workshop.
In constructing the crime fiction short story, there’s not a lot of real estate for deep characterizations or defining of the arena your characters are often thrust into. Yet these elements can’t be ignored as you’re also putting the plot in motion toward the clever ending you’ve envisioned. Along the way, elements such as set-up and pay-off, and laying the groundwork for the twist or the reveal or the reversal are addressed as well.
With that in mind, our time together will be minimal lecturing; a war story sprinkled in here or there; and mostly you the writer on the grind as we discuss and workshop building your characters, constructing the road they take, tension in dialogue, organically creating the complication(s), and delivering the goods. Whew.
Every Moment is a Story
Michele Slung, Otto Penzler’s first reader, provides an insider’s look at how best-of-year anthologies are put together.
Linked, Intertwined, or Seamless: The Curious Case of the Novel in Stories
Art Taylor explores how to use short stories as building blocks toward the architecture of full-length books—analyzing various distinct models and reflecting on his own experiences. The discussion will explore the benefits and the challenges of the novel in stories, in terms of both craft and marketing; offer tips for establishing a longer narrative arc through character, plot, motif, and other links; and distinguish why some collections don’t coalesce as novels.
Everything You Forgot to Ask
Stacy Woodson guides speakers through an audience-driven Q&A and provides her perspective as a new editor and an award-winning writer.
Gary Phillips leads writers in an interactive workshop.
In constructing the crime fiction short story, there’s not a lot of real estate for deep characterizations or defining of the arena your characters are often thrust into. Yet these elements can’t be ignored as you’re also putting the plot in motion toward the clever ending you’ve envisioned. Along the way, elements such as set-up and pay-off, and laying the groundwork for the twist or the reveal or the reversal are addressed as well.
With that in mind, our time together will be minimal lecturing; a war story sprinkled in here or there; and mostly you the writer on the grind as we discuss and workshop building your characters, constructing the road they take, tension in dialogue, organically creating the complication(s), and delivering the goods. Whew.
Every Moment is a Story
Michele Slung, Otto Penzler’s first reader, provides an insider’s look at how best-of-year anthologies are put together.
Linked, Intertwined, or Seamless: The Curious Case of the Novel in Stories
Art Taylor explores how to use short stories as building blocks toward the architecture of full-length books—analyzing various distinct models and reflecting on his own experiences. The discussion will explore the benefits and the challenges of the novel in stories, in terms of both craft and marketing; offer tips for establishing a longer narrative arc through character, plot, motif, and other links; and distinguish why some collections don’t coalesce as novels.
Everything You Forgot to Ask
Stacy Woodson guides speakers through an audience-driven Q&A and provides her perspective as a new editor and an award-winning writer.