Join award-winning author Ron Maclean for the Concord Festival of Authors 2020 Short Story Writing Workshop! All CFA 2020 Writing Workshops sponsored by Be Well Be Here are live through Zoom.

Your First 100 Words:

Grounding Readers in Your Fiction

Most readers will engage with a story if they feel grounded in some aspect of that story’s world. Whether physically grounded in setting, emotionally grounded in character, or logistically grounded in the human situation, it’s crucial to establish for readers early on a world they recognize, and to convey what matters in that world. In this advanced craft seminar, we’ll discuss techniques for grounding your stories, analyze published examples, and provide exercises to help you put it in practice.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28 at 4:00 - 5:30 pm

Space is limited at a discounted rate of $15. Apply for a scholarship here.

Ron MacLean is author of the story collections We Might as Well Light Something On Fire and Why the Long Face? and the novels Headlong and Blue Winnetka Skies. MacLean’s fiction has appeared widely in magazines including GQ, Narrative, Fiction International, and elsewhere. He is a recipient of the Frederick Exley Award for Short Fiction and a multiple Pushcart Prize nominee. He holds a Doctor of Arts from the University at Albany, SUNY, and teaches at GrubStreet in Boston.