Shaping the Short Story

Location: Troy

Overview: Is it a tale, a flash fiction or a classic short story? Find out! Drawing on your own experience, develop techniques for crafting characters and events into a compelling and imaginative piece of short fiction.

Instructor: Lucia Nevai is the author of two critically-acclaimed short story collections, Star Game, winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award, and Normal, published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, and Iowa Review among others.