Introducing LAR’s Online Summer Workshops

2010 Online Summer Fiction Workshop with Stefanie Freele, Fiction Editor of The Los Angeles Review

Join Stefanie Freele, Fiction Editor of The Los Angeles Review, for a four-week class focused on contemporary short fiction. This small group of writers will meet online from July 1 to July 31 to discuss examples of stellar new fiction from the latest two issues of The Los Angeles Review, critique student work, and write new and unexpected prose generated from exercises based on a short weekly lecture. Lecture/discussion topics include: the importance of the beginning, narrative tension and anticipation, style and technique, and editing. Also, each student will workshop one piece of fiction, approximately 2500 words in length.

Fee: $150. Workshop limited to 8 students. The fee includes one copy each of LAR Issue 7 and Issue 8.

Interested parties should email a 500-1,000 word fiction sample to lareview.fictioneditor@gmail.com. Please include “Workshop Sample” in the subject line. Samples should be sent prior to June 23.

Stefanie Freele’s short story collection Feeding Strays is a current Book of the Year Award Finalist. Her recent work can be found in literary magazines such as Glimmer Train, American Literary Review, The Pedestal Review and Night Train. Stefanie is the Fiction Editor of the Los Angeles Review.