Writing the Dark, the Funny, and the Darkly Funny: 4-Week Short Story Intensive (Zoom), Starts Sunday, October 26th, 2025

Class Starts on Sunday, October 26th, 2025 The class will meet on Sundays via Zoom (1:00PM ET - 4:00PM ET). Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button (lower left) to talk with us. Led by Kritika Pandey, the global winner of the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize and was on the shortlist in 2018 and 2016. A graduate of the MFA for Poets and Writers, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, she was a resident writer at The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico in 2021. Her writing has been generously supported by a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation and appeared in Granta, Kenyon Review, BBC Radio 4, and The Common, among others. Read an Interview with Kritika on Writing the Dark, the Funny, and the Darkly Funny and learn more about her in our Meet the Teaching Artist series. The darkest things in life are also the funniest. The same way that language is a prison camp, but it’s all we really have, and the emptiness of the human soul coexists with the corporeal incon