This generative workshop explores story development through voice, movement, and structure. Using in-class writing, creative exercises, and small-group feedback, participants will work toward crafting a compelling short story—one literary brick at a time.
Along the way, we’ll explore strategies for revision, discuss how to give and receive meaningful feedback, and consider what it means to move a story from draft to publication, followed by a discussion of when a story ready to submit, where you should send it, and navigating the world of literary publishing.
CYN VARGAS is the author of the award-winning short-story collection On the Way and the coming-of-age novel Nothing’s Ever the Same. Her work has appeared in Split Lip, Hypertext, and Word Riot, and she has been featured on the Selected Shorts podcast. A winner of the Guild Literary Complex Prose Award and named Instructor of the Year at StoryStudio Chicago, Vargas holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia College Chicago and teaches fiction workshops throughout the country. Passionate about storytelling as both art and act of connection, she helps writers tap into their voice and shape bold, emotionally resonant work. Visit here for more info.
