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Starting the Short Story

November 3, 2025, Monday, 5:00-8:00 p.m. (one session)
716 SE Grand Ave Portland, OR 97214

$75

At this three-hour class, we will read the beginnings of short stories, discuss their effectiveness, tone, and structure, and discuss whether they encourage us to keep reading and why. Then, using what we noticed, each participant will generate several story starts of their own. Plan on leaving this short class with story beginnings, ideas, tools, and encouragement we can use to nurture new work.

Access Program
We want our writing classes and seminars to be accessible to everyone, regardless of income and background. We understand that our tuition structure can present obstacles for some people. Our Access Program offers writing class and seminar tuitions at a reduced rate. Most writing classes have at least one access spot available.

Please apply here for access rate tuition. Contact Susan Moore at susan@literary-arts.org if you have questions.

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Starting the Short Story
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Margaret Malone

Margaret Malone

Margaret Malone is the host of the literary radio show Bust the Canon on xray.fm, and author of the story collection People Like You, a Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction & Winner of the Balcones Fiction Prize, and selected as one of the Northwest’s “25 Books to Read Before You Die” by Powell’s Books.

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November 3, 2025
Starting the Short Story