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Writing The Modern Short Story

Have you fantasized about seeing a short story of yours published in the New Yorker? Award-winning novelist and published short story writer Amelia Gray will give you the resources, structure, and inspiration to hustle effectively, and she'll take the pain out of the submission process. She will even share her secret recipe for getting your work published. Through her engaging craft talk, you'll learn how to pinpoint your publishing niche, write a killer short story, and craft the perfect query letter. Before long, your collection of short stories will be staring back at you in the window of your local bookstore! With Amelia's help, one student got published in Barrelhouse and one student got into an Masters in Writing program in England! You're next.

Instructor: Amelia Gray
Sunday, October 13, 2013
2:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Cost: $80 (Includes snacks and tea)
Location: Writing Pad East

About Amelia Gray:

Amelia Gray is the author of "AM/PM" (Featherproof Books) and "Museum of the Weird" (FC2), for which she won the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize. Her first novel, "THREATS", (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), was long listed for the University of Wales Dylan Thomas Prize and nominated for a Pen USA award. Her fiction, poetry and nonfiction has appeared in Tin House, Poets & Writers, American Short Fiction, GOOD, Guernica, Annalemma, Sonora Review, VICE, McSweeney's, the LA Review of Books and DIAGRAM, among others. She received a BA from Arizona State University and an MFA from Texas State University. She has taught writing and composition at the University of Illinois, Bowling Green State University, Hamilton College, Austin Community College, and Roosevelt College, among others. She has served on the editorial board at Hayden's Ferry Review and Front Porch. She is currently working on a collection of short stories and a novel.