Storying: Creating Short Fiction with Usman T. Malik

This is a 1-meeting virtual class using the Zoom platform. 

Wednesday, Oct 1, 6-7:30 pm Central time.

This 90-min long workshop will delve into the basics of creating compelling short fiction: openings, theme, plot (and absence of it), usage of POV and character, thematic ecology in a short story, endings, and different types of short fiction (flash, short story, novelette, novella).

Instructor bio:

Usman T. Malik is a Pakistani-American writer whose fiction has been published at WIRED magazine, Al-Jazeera, New Voices of Fantasy, and in more than a dozen best of the year anthologies, including The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy series.  Malik's fiction has won the British Fantasy Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Bram Stoker Award®, and been nominated for the Locus, Nebula, Ignyte, and Shirley Jackson Awards  His debut collection Midnight Doorways: Fables From Pakistan won the 2022 Crawford Award from the International Association for the Fantastic in Arts (IAFA) and was on The Washington Post's 2021 list of best science fiction & fantasy collections.