Once Upon a Time: Using Fairy Tale Forms to Write Better in any Genre Zoom Seminar with Amber Sparks, Saturday, July 20th, 2024

Saturday, July 20th, 2024 Live Seminar Via Zoom 10AM – 1PM CST Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button (lower left) to talk with us. Led by Amber Sparks, author of an upcoming novel, Happy People Don’t Live Here, an upcoming short story collection, Did Parents In the Middle Ages Love Their Children? (both from Liveright/W.W. Norton), and four collections of short fiction, including And I Do Not Forgive You: Revenges and other Stories and The Unfinished World. Her fiction and essays have appeared in American Short Fiction, the Paris Review, Slate, Tin House, Granta, The Cut and elsewhere. Many writers dismiss fairy tales outright as childish stuff, sure that those simplistic tales and flat characters, full of easy magic and gated logic, could not possibly have anything to do with serious writing. But fairy tales are the building blocks of so many of our oldest stories and contain some of our oldest story forms, useful to everyone who writes - both fiction and non-fiction.