Read Like a Writer: The Contemporary Short Story

Explore fiction by learning to read like a writer—alert to the craft on the page. Our texts for this class are two short stories published in the last few years. You’ll read the stories (to be announced) in advance, then Kathryn will lead the class in a close look at the narrative gifts of each.

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About the Instructor: Kathryn Schwille is the author of the novel What Luck, This Life, set in East Texas around the time of the Columbia shuttle disaster. Her short stories, which have appeared in New Letters, Memorious, Crazyhorse, West Branch and other magazines, have twice won honorable mention in the Pushcart Prize. In 2013, she was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council.