IN PERSON: Dread-full Beginnings: How to Open a Horror Story with Ahsan Butt October 15 :: 6-8 pm at Coco Design & Build
Join us for a spooky workshop, in which we explore how to craft the perfect opening to grab your readers and suck them in.
Every horror story must start somewhere, in a place, a mind, a mood. Join us for this candlelit workshop in which we'll read and discuss the opening lines of great horror works from MR James to Poe, Shirley Jackson to Samanta Schweblin, Stephen King to Mariana Enriquez, after which we'll try our hand at our own beginnings, guided by prompts, inspired by ghosts.
All experience levels are welcome. Enthusiasm for the haunted season is required.
October 15, 6-8 pm
$50
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Ahsan Butt is a writer, editor, and teacher. He earned his MFA in Fiction at Antioch University of Los Angeles. His short-fiction and essays have appeared in Pleiades, West Branch, Split Lip Magazine, Barrelhouse, The Massachusetts Review, The Normal School, SmokeLong Quarterly, The Rumpus, and elsewhere.
He is currently a Senior Editor at South Asian Avant Garde: A Dissident Literary Anthology (SAAG) and writes a newsletter on horror writing. Find him in Evanston at a bookstore, the library, or a coffeeshop, or at ahsanb.com.