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From right here in this email, you can access five stellar lectures on five fundamental elements of craft, all for free. Yes, more than 300 minutes of insight into how to write better -- FREE.


No, we haven't lost our marbles. We simply want to show you first-hand the incredible value to be found in our In Short Fiction Workshops where these talks were presented by WBN's own Giuseppe Taurino and Cecily Sailer.


The In Short Fiction Workshop is a three-hour boot camp for writers of short fiction, offered in partnership with the O. Henry Museum in Austin, TX.

Each workshop includes a discussion of a short story by O. Henry, a craft talk related to that story, and workshopping of your own short fiction.

Learn more and register for the August 23rd workshop now!

• endings and epiphany via "The Gift of the Magi"
• atmosphere and sense of place via "The Furnished Room"
• character via "A Man About Town"
• plot and structure via "A Municipal Report"
• dialogue via "The Love-Philtre of Ikey Schoenstein"

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