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Advanced Short Story Writing with Lauren Acampora

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4.6 64 reviews

Refine your storytelling craft with expert guidance and advanced techniques focused on subtext, tone, dialogue, and narrative structure. Work through in-class exercises designed to strengthen your prose and transform drafts into polished stories. Ideal for writers ready to elevate their fiction and deepen their understanding of what makes a short story resonate.

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You’ve learned the Short Story Basics, but how do you take your skills to the next level? In this Online Advanced Short Story Workshop, Lauren Acampora (Best American Short Stories, Paris Review) 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.

Lauren 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 236 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.

Remote Learning

This course is available for "remote" learning and will be available to anyone with access to an internet device with a microphone (this includes most models of computers, tablets). Classes will take place with a "Live" instructor at the date/times listed below.

Upon registration, the instructor will send along additional information about how to log-on and participate in the class.

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All sales are final and there are no refunds.

Credit may be offered based on class availability. If you can’t come to class, call or email us as far in advance as possible. We will do everything we can to fill your spot, but we can’t make any guarantees. Credit eligibility is not based upon your reason for being unable to attend a class; it is based upon the timing of your credit request and our ability to fill your spot. If we find someone to take your place, you will receive class credit minus a $25 processing fee for 1 day classes and $50 processing fee for long classes. In that case, your class credit will be good for a year from the original sign up date and will expire after that. Otherwise, you will forfeit your payment/payments.

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

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