Saturday, December 7th, 2024

Live Seminar Via Zoom 10AM – 1PM Central

Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button (lower left) to talk with us.

Instructor Amber Sparks is the author of an upcoming novel, Happy People Don’t Live Here, an upcoming short story collection, Did Parents In the Middle Ages Love Their Children? (both from Liveright/W.W. Norton), and four collections of short fiction, including And I Do Not Forgive You: Revenges and other Stories and The Unfinished World. Her fiction and essays have appeared in American Short Fiction, the Paris Review, Slate, Tin House, Granta, The Cut and elsewhere.  

Everyone loves a good ghost story. But much like spotting a ghost in the modern world, it's trickier than it seems.

How can you use the tricks, conventions, and tools that writers from Henry James to MR James to Shirley Jackson made standard, while writing something that's fresh, new, and thoroughly modern?

We'll study the conventions of the gothic story, look at modern ghost stories by writers like Brian Evenson and Carmen Maria Machado and others, and use fun prompts and games to get your brain into gothic mode.

You'll leave with a story draft that's definitely gothic - whether your ghosts are scary, sad, sweet, or funny is up to you.

Can't Make It Live?

No problem! The session will be recorded and available to watch after the seminar concludes.

TAKE THIS CLASS IF:

• You're finding the constraints of your current writing practice too limiting.
• You want exposure to a range of new approaches to bring to your writing practice.
  
• You want an expanded sense of what is possible in your work.
  

TESTIMONIALS:

"One of the more creative workshops I have ever taken. Amber Sparks really got me to think in different and creative ways. It was the right class at the right time for me."

"I really enjoyed Amber Sparks' workshop on Fractured Narrative! Great list of possible approaches to non-linear story-telling with helpful references to specific author's works as examples. Good exercises. Really enjoyed the chat input from other attendees as well. Great value for the price."

ONLINE COURSE STRUCTURE:

This class will meet via Zoom on Saturday, December 7th, 2024 from 10AM - 1PM CST

• Amber Sparks | Live via Zoom

• This class will meet via Zoom on Saturday, December 7th, 2024

• 10AM - 1PM CST

• Seminar is fully ONLINE and meets via Zoom