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You've got a great idea or a first draft of a hot, new short story. Everything seems to be there: beautiful language, strong characters, compelling conflict, and clear themes. But something is missing, and you don't know what it is. In this class, award-winning short story writer Ben Loory will help find the weakness in your piece's structure, retrofit the spine, and patch up any narrative holes. Through focused workshopping, you'll breathe new life into an old fixer upper. By the end of the class, you'll have unstuck your tale and have a good sense of how to tranform it into a literary masterpiece that can withstand the huffing and puffing of the sharpest critic.
Note: Participants should bring in up to 10 pages of a story or an idea to workshop in class. Class will be limited to 6 students.
Instructor: Ben Loory
June 4, 2014
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Note: Participants should bring in up to 10 pages of a story or an idea to workshop in class. Class will be limited to 6 students.
Cost: $125 (includes snacks and tea)
Location: Writing Pad East (688 S Santa Fe, Apt. 312, Los Angeles, CA 90021)
About Ben Loory:
Ben Loory's fables and tales have appeared online and in print in journals of all shapes and sizes, including Gargoyle Magazine, The Antioch Review, Pank, SmokeLong Quarterly, The Collagist, Fairy Tale Review, The Rattling Wall, and Quick Fiction. They have also been translated into many languages, including Arabic, Farsi, Japanese, and Indonesian. In 2010, his story "The TV" was featured in The New Yorker, and was named a Distinguished Story of the Year in The Best American Short Stories 2011. His stories "The Duck" and "The Man and the Moose" have appeared on NPR's This American Life, while "The Book" and "The Dodo" have been heard on Selected Shorts (with "The Dodo being written on a commission from the Selected Shorts Commissioning Project). "The Book" is also a staple at WordTheatre, where it has been performed by many actors, including Marcia Gay Harden. His book "Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day" (Penguin, 2011) is now in its fifth printing. It was chosen as a selection of the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program and the Starbucks Coffee Bookish Reading Club, and was named one of the 10 Best Fiction Books of the Year by the Hudson Booksellers retail chain. It also won the Nobbie Award for Best Book of the Year, given by the online arts & culture magazine TheNervousBreakdown.com. As a screenwriter, Ben Loory has worked for Jodie Foster, Alex Proyas (director of Dark City and The Crow), and Mark Johnson (Academy Award-winning producer of Rain Man). He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Visual Arts from Harvard University and an MFA in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute.
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LocationWriting Pad East (View)
688 S Santa Fe, Apt. 312
Los Angeles, CA 90021
United States
Categories
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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Contact
| Owner: Writing Pad |
| On BPT Since: Feb 28, 2012 |
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| Marilyn Friedman |
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