Award-winning author, series editor for the Flannery O’Connor award for short fiction, and manuscript consultant, Nancy Zafris will offer a fun and challenging workshop examining short story structure and using in-class prompts to generate new work. Over 40 stories written in Nancy’s workshops from her unique prompts have been published in print and online journals, including The Kenyon Review, The Journal, Mid-American Review, StoryQuarterly, and many others.
Friday, May 31
9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Note the location change:
Visual Arts Center of Richmond
Weinstein Room
1812 West Main Street
Richmond, VA 23220
Free parking available both behind the building and on the street
Nancy’s first collection of short stories, The People I Know, won the Flannery O’Connor award as well as the Ohioiana Library Association award. Her two novels are the The Metal Shredders, a New York Times notable book, and Lucky Strike, a BookSense notable. She is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts grants and has taught at many universities, including Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic as a Fulbright Fellow. Each June she teaches at the Kenyon Review summer writer’s workshop, where she is also associate director. Her new collection of short stories, The Home Jar, was published in April 2013.
This class is full.