In this two-hour master class, we’ll discuss the life of the short story—how to take your drafts to the next level; the process of submitting to literary journals; what lit magazine editors are looking for; and how to use your published story to help propel your writing career. Virginia will share an insider’s perspective as a fellow short story writer with her own collection, Shelf Life of Happiness, and as fiction editor at Pangyrus, a literary journal.
When: Thursday, August 28, 2025 | 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Where: Online, via the Zoom platform
$50 Members; $75 Non-Members
This Master Class was rescheduled from July. If you already registered and plan to attend at the new time on August 28, you do not need to register again.
YOUR MASTER CLASS INSTRUCTOR
VIRGINIA PYE‘s forthcoming novel, Marriage and Other Monuments, is set in Richmond in the summer of 2020. She is also author of the historical novels The Literary Undoing of Victoria Swann, Dreams of the Red Phoenix, and River of Dust, and the story collection, Shelf Life of Happiness. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Literary Hub, Publisher’s Weekly, Writer’s Digest, and elsewhere. She is fiction editor at the literary journal Pangyrus.
This project was supported, in part, by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, which receives support from the Virginia General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
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