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        $365.00 · February 27

        When we allow ourselves to take risks, we can discover a writer's greatest creative weapon: our voice, and the power of our stories.

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      • Let’s Get Weird: The Ordinary Elements of Weird Fiction with Pedro Ponce

        $365.00 · March 9

        The weird is all around us. This class will give you ways to look for and reveal the strangeness in seemingly ordinary situations.

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        $550.00 · March 9

        Join us in person! This class will focus on learning to identify and understand the craft elements that comprise the building blocks of compelling, engaging narratives.

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      • How to Write Layered Fiction with Joseph Scapellato

        $65.00 · January 23

        In this single-session craft-focused class, we’ll take a crack at practical approaches to creating interconnected, layered, and weighty works of fiction.

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      • The List As Organizing Structure with Serena Simpson

        $65.00 · February 7

        We will look at examples of works structured around a list of objects, a list of characters, and a list of events as models for how we can structure our own work.

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        $65.00 · March 28

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      • PJ Seminar: The View From Above: A Master Class on Organizing Principles with Laila Lalami

        $70.00 · March 2

        In this class, we will talk about your story’s organizing principle: the core element around which the entire narrative revolves.

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      • PJ Seminar: Creatures of Impulse: A Master Class on What All Writers Can Learn from TV with Dean Bakopoulos

        $70.00 · February 28

        This session will focus on the way popular TV series hook viewers, construct scenes, build characters, and structure episodes, and how this can easily be adapted to add energy to short stories, memoirs, and novels.

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      • PJ Seminar: Unbearable Beauty: A Master Class on Nature and Memory with Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

        $70.00 · February 6

        This class will explore how poets have used place, landscape, and the environment to create the tenuous emotional textures, and nuanced complexities of the spaces they inhabit.

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  • Classes
    • MULTI-WEEK

      • Telling Your Truth with Dionna Griffin-Irons

        $365.00 · February 27

        When we allow ourselves to take risks, we can discover a writer's greatest creative weapon: our voice, and the power of our stories.

        Read more
      • Let’s Get Weird: The Ordinary Elements of Weird Fiction with Pedro Ponce

        $365.00 · March 9

        The weird is all around us. This class will give you ways to look for and reveal the strangeness in seemingly ordinary situations.

        Add to cart
      • Creative Writing Essentials with Steve Trumpeter (In-Person)

        $550.00 · March 9

        Join us in person! This class will focus on learning to identify and understand the craft elements that comprise the building blocks of compelling, engaging narratives.

        Add to cart

      SINGLE SESSION

      • How to Write Layered Fiction with Joseph Scapellato

        $65.00 · January 23

        In this single-session craft-focused class, we’ll take a crack at practical approaches to creating interconnected, layered, and weighty works of fiction.

        Read more
      • The List As Organizing Structure with Serena Simpson

        $65.00 · February 7

        We will look at examples of works structured around a list of objects, a list of characters, and a list of events as models for how we can structure our own work.

        Add to cart
      • Writing About Art with David Welch

        $65.00 · March 28

        Add to cart

      MASTER CLASSES

      • PJ Seminar: The View From Above: A Master Class on Organizing Principles with Laila Lalami

        $70.00 · March 2

        In this class, we will talk about your story’s organizing principle: the core element around which the entire narrative revolves.

        Add to cart
      • PJ Seminar: Creatures of Impulse: A Master Class on What All Writers Can Learn from TV with Dean Bakopoulos

        $70.00 · February 28

        This session will focus on the way popular TV series hook viewers, construct scenes, build characters, and structure episodes, and how this can easily be adapted to add energy to short stories, memoirs, and novels.

        Add to cart
      • PJ Seminar: Unbearable Beauty: A Master Class on Nature and Memory with Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

        $70.00 · February 6

        This class will explore how poets have used place, landscape, and the environment to create the tenuous emotional textures, and nuanced complexities of the spaces they inhabit.

        Add to cart

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    • Vaccination Policy
    • Code of Conduct
    • Stories Matter Foundation Statements on Social Justice
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    • Contact Us
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    • 20 Stories
  • Events
    • Pub Crawl
    • CHIRBy Awards
    • StoryBall Fundraiser
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    • Stories Matter Foundation Masters Award
  • Chicago Stories Project
    • Scholarships & Partnerships
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    • AWP Conference
    • The Geek-Out Book Club
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  • Write to Change the World with Cleyvis Natera

    $65.00 · March 21

    In this generative workshop, participants will be guided through writing prompts that will leverage characterization and setting as tools to confront social injustice in fiction.

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