Upcoming Online Workshops
Upcoming
Online Workshop
A Reason to Write Presents:
Immerse me: How to Craft Dynamic Settings in Flash
A Reason to Write Presents: Immerse me: How to Craft Dynamic Settings in Flash
Join literary agent, editor, and writer Tommy Dean for a 90-minute generative writing session focused on creating dynamic and immersive settings for flash fiction. In this online workshop via Zoom on Tuesday, April 21, 2025, at 7:00 PM EST, you’ll study model flash texts and get inspired by writing prompts designed to unlock specific and vivid places. Flash word count limits pressure writers to reveal setting quickly, specifically, and uniquely—and readers want stories they can experience. Through this workshop, you’ll learn to use setting as your story’s engine, generating several drafts and discovering how dynamic settings add depth to any story.
Free for A Reason to Write Facebook Group Members.
Past Online Workshops
Online Workshop:
Let's Start At The Very Begining:
The First Two Pages And Beyond With Art Taylor
Let's Start At The Very Begining: The First Two Pages And Beyond With Art Taylor
Tuesday June 24th - 7:00 - 8:30 PM EST Via Zoom
Beginnings maybe the hardest thing to write… except for endings… and then there’s the middle, of course. But building a strong opening can not only engage readers and editors quickly but also lay the foundation for richer plots and ultimately provide the key to more rewarding endings. With an emphasis on short stories but attention to novels as
well, Art Taylor will offer insights and approaches, drawing on “The First Two Pages,” the
blog series he curates, as well as examples and advice from classic and contemporary
writers.
Art Taylor is the Edgar Award-winning author of two short story collections-The
Adventure of the Castle Thief and Other Expeditions and Indiscretions and The Boy
Detective & The Summer of ’74 and Other Tales of Suspense-and of the novel in stories On
the Road with Del & Louise, winner of the Agatha Award for Best First Novel. He won the
2019 Edgar Award for Best Short Story for “English 398: Fiction Workshop,” originally
published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, and he has won three additional Agatha
Awards, an Anthony Award, four Macavity Awards, and four Derringer Awards for his
short fiction. His work has also appeared in Best American Mystery Stories, and he has
edited several mystery anthologies, including Murder Under the Oaks: Bouchercon
Anthology 2015, winner of the Anthony Award for Best Anthology or Collection. He is a
professor of English at George Mason University.
Online Workshop (Zoom): So You Wanna be a Ghost Writer with Natalie Hanemann
Tuesday March 18th - 7:00 - 8:30 PM EST
Natalie will share how she became a Ghostwriter, and give you tips for
getting started on your ghostwriting journey.
Sponsored by Ellen Weeren and A Reason to Write LLC
Online Workshop (Zoom): Submitters' Club: Learn how to Navigate/ Manage Submissions with Marijean Oldham
Tuesday January 14th & Tuesday January 28th 2025 - 7:00 - 8:30 PM EST
This online workshop through Zoom will empower writers to take the next step in their literary careers by helping them submit their work to journals, overcome submission anxieties, and build a manageable, strategic approach to sharing their work.