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Upcoming Classes
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Building Your Own World with Susanna Calkins
In this interactive session, writers will explore key aspects of world-building and scene-setting, reflecting on how sensory details, language, dialogue and history (real or imagined) help authors create their own unique worlds.
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Character Workout with Joseph Scapellato
This one-session course will take you through a rigorous but playful back-to-the-basics study of character in fiction. You’ll leave this class with practical and immediately applicable ideas for character in your current fiction projects, no matter where you are in the process.
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Collecting, Organizing, and Transforming Ideas into Fiction with Chaitali Sen
In this single-session class, we’ll tap into our curiosity to generate story ideas. The aim is to accelerate the process from first spark to finished draft.
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StoryBall
Learn MoreStoryBall Fundraiser The Stories Matter Foundation Board of Directors invites you to celebrate2023 StoryBall: Turning 20 in the 20s Join us for a Literary Carnival as we celebrate StoryStudio Chicago’s…
StoryStudio Chicago
We offer classes for writers to hone their craft, express their creativity, and communicate with confidence.
Stories Matter Foundation
StoryStudio is part of this 501(c)3 charitable nonprofit and community of storytellers. We aim to change worlds using the power of story.
Our Community
One of our main goals is building a community where writers and literary folks can come together to learn, share, and grow in the creative arts.
Read a bit from our blog…
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20 Stories: (#1) Ericka Carmona-Vega
Ultimately, StoryStudio Chicago’s teachings and empowering methods of inquiry led me to finish my first novel of the Rise series.
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20 Stories: (#2) Scott Onak
No one chooses a project like this — in writing, work, life — knowing exactly what it will demand. And even if we did, for the ones worth doing, we’d do it anyway.
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20 Stories: (#3) Dionna Griffin-Irons
I am connected to some of the most prolific & talented writers in this community who have helped shape my own craft as student and instructor.