Fiction
April 7-28, 2026
Tiered Tuition
$250-$600 Reserve My Spot
Tuesdays on April 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th at 7pm-9pm (Eastern)
Through a combination of generative exercises, readings, discussions, and workshop, we will explore the various craft components of the short story. We will analyze short works of fiction by Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Deesha Philyaw, Danielle Evans, Morgan Talty, Gina Chung, and others.
This course will have an emphasis on the literary analysis of craft elements—the various parts and mechanisms that keep the engine of a story going.
We will also focus on refining those craft elements in our fiction.
By the end of the course, students will have generated, revised, and workshopped an original short work of fiction.
Students who’ve taken this workshop previously are also welcome!
Annell López is the winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize and the author of the short story collection I’ll Give You a Reason, a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for best debut short story collection. Named a best short story collection of 2024 by Electric Literature, I’ll Give You a Reason has been longlisted for the Maya Angelou Book Award, the Reforma Latinx Book Award, and the Clark Fiction Prize. López was a Peter Taylor Fellow at the Kenyon Review Workshops. Her work has appeared in Guernica, American Short Fiction, The Common, Brooklyn Rail, Refinery29, and TIME. López received her MFA from the University of New Orleans, where she was awarded the Joanna Leake Fiction Prize. She is the Creative Writing Chair at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. López is working on a novel.
