Class Date:
Saturday, October 11th
Class Time:
2:00-6:00PM with reading and party to follow
Class Size:
8-10
Age Group:
18+
Location:
Tank Space, 1110 E Eighth St, Traverse City, MI 49686
Write this way to spooky season! Kick off the haunting Halloween vibes with fellow writers at this one-day horror writing workshop in partnership with Tank Space. We’ll meet in the Lunar Lounge and talk about what makes horror stories work- how to craft high stakes, build tension, and give our readers goosebumps. We’ll look at examples of published work, and then write our own horror stories, inspired, perhaps, by an included free drink token (NA option available, of course.) But we won’t just scare ourselves. At the end of class, Tank Space will open its doors for a community reading of our freshly-written frights, and we’ll have a Halloween costume party and contest! Costumes are optional for our wicked writers, but come dressed-up if you dare: the winner of the costume contest will get a free ticket to see Joe Hill at the City Opera House.
No prior writing experience necessary, just a willingness to write, get weird, and have fun.
Audrey Irontree is a fiction writer, developmental editor, ghostwriter and educator. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Fiction degree from Northwestern University, her Bachelor of Arts from Brown University and her Associate Degree from The Bard College at Simon’s Rock. Her short story, “The Toad,” recently appeared in the Portland Review, and her short story, “Koan,” was featured in Meridian, University of Virginia’s literary journal. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of Muse Literary, an award-winning small, independent publisher. She lives in Traverse City and loves to read, paint, make pottery and garden.
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