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How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #50: Flash Fiction

An update from our fiftieth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, November 19, plus some of the output published below This week, Conner focused on the art of flash fiction. To begin, he talked about how influential Ernest Hemingway was during the 20th century, which led to a […]

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #49: Sound & the Sonnet

An update from our forty-ninth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, November 12, plus some of the output published below “A poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.” -Jean Cocteau “I pulled a chicken’s foot from behind the moon.” Federico García Lorca For this week’s workshop, […]

How Stories Work—Writing Workshop #48: Prose Poetry

An update from our forty-eighth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, November 5,  plus some of the output published below For this week’s workshop, we focused on prose poetry, which we defined as a prose composition that demonstrates the logic and characteristics common to poetry. The first thing […]