The Ecstatic Ekphrastic: The Art of Using Art as Prompt Zoom Seminar with Amber Sparks, Saturday, May 10th, 2025

Saturday, May 10th, 2025 Live Seminar Via Zoom 10AM – 1PM Central Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button (lower left) to talk with us. Instructor Amber Sparks is the 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.   Writers have always been inspired by visual art. But art can also serve as not just inspiration, but pure prompt when you're stuck for a story.  In this workshop, we’ll learn practical ways to harness that inspiration, and make it work for us. We'll play with images as triggers for new kinds of structure, ways to jog the parts of our brains that do narrative a little diffe