Short Story Bootcamp with ELIZABETH BERNSTEIN

In one information-filled Sunday, learn everything you need to know about writing, revising and publishing your short stories. This hands-on workshop will cover various aspect of the craft, using fun in-class exercises, readings and discussion. You'll learn all about character, voice, story arc, and point of view, plus how to get started, write convincing dialogue, and create believable heroes and villains. You'll discover how to use setting to underscore your story, how to fictionalize real people and events, and how to write powerful endings. We'll talk about the revision process and editing and sharing your work, as well as overcoming procrastination and living the writer's life. Finally, we'll talk about publishing and selling your work. RSVP by Wednesday, February 16.

Elizabeth Bernstein is a writer, editor, and writing coach. She's the founder and editor of The Big Ugly Review (www.biguglyreview.com), an online literary magazine that showcases fiction, nonfiction, poetry, photography, music and short films (called "a great literary magazine" by Utne Magazine and "the fantastic Big Ugly Review" by zyzzyva editor Howard Junker). Her short stories have been published in the Los Angeles Times Sunday magazine, the North Atlantic Review, eleven eleven magazine and other US and international literary journals. Her short story, "Alice," won first prize in the San Francisco Bay Guardian Fiction Contest and was optioned by Sneaky Little Sister Films.  She works out of the San Francisco Writer's Grotto.