Building Your Short Story Collection with Hannah Grieco and Amber Sparks

Building Your Short Story Collection with Hannah Grieco and Amber Sparks

Calling all aspiring writers! Join us to hear from bestselling authors Hannah Grieco and Amber Sparks on building a short story collection.

By Old Town Books

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Old Town Books

130 South Royal Street Alexandria, VA 22314

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About this event

  • Event lasts 1 hour

Calling all aspiring writers!

Join us Tuesday, September 9 at 7 p.m. as we host bestselling authors Hannah Grieco and Amber Sparks in conversation about how to put together your own short story collection.

Hannah and Amber will discuss how they build their own collections, how writing short stories differs from long-form writing and more. The event will end with a Q&A session and book signing by both authors.

Tickets will be available first to Old Town Books newsletter subscribers with an access code. To join our newsletter, sign up here!

Tickets will be open to the public on Monday, June 30.

About Hannah Grieco

Hannah Grieco is a writer, editor, and professor in Washington, DC. Her short story collection "First Kicking, Then Not" comes out August 12th with Stanchion. Read more of her work in The Washington Post, Al Jazeera, The Rumpus, Brevity, Wigleaf, Shenandoah, Poet Lore, Fairy Tale Review, and more. Find her online at www.hgrieco.com and on most social media @‌writesloud.

About Amber Sparks

Amber Sparks is the author of an upcoming novel, Happy People Don’t Live Here, four collections of short fiction, and a hybrid novella written with Robert Kloss and illustrated by Matt Kish. Her essays, film and book criticism have appeared widely online, here as well as in BrightWall/Dark Room, Indiewire, Bustle, The Paris Review, Slate, Tin House, New York Mag, and elsewhere. She lives in Washington, DC, with her husband, daughter, and two cats.

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Old Town Books is a new independent bookstore in Alexandria, VA. We host author events, bookclubs, weekly story time, and more! We're a bookshop on a mission to be a community hub for all things literary. 

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