The Fundamentals of Short Story Writing Workshop

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Ready to commit to your writing in the new year? Join us for an 8-week winter workshop designed to strengthen your short fiction skills, spark new ideas, and build a supportive creative community. We’ll study craft, read other writers, generate new work each week, and share our stories for group workshop. We’ll wrap up with a celebratory reading in the bookstore open to friends and family. ✨

🗓 January 20 – March 10

📍 Tuesday nights, 7pm - 8:30pm (with open studio writing time in the store from 5pm-7pm)

💵 $299 • Beginners to Intermediate welcome

Instructor: Aeriel Merillat, fiction writer + bookseller at Wild Aster Books; MFA from University of Pittsburgh; 2021 Lighthouse Workshop Fellow and 2023 Bread Loaf Contributor, with work in The Massachusetts Review, Reed Magazine, and Fractured Lit.

You’ll walk away with:

✔ a deeper understanding of the fundamentals of short fiction

✔ new tools for crafting scenes, character, dialogue, and tension

✔ a polished short story (1,000–3,000 words)

Questions? Email us at wildasterbooks@gmail.com