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Story Elements: Setting and Suspense
Writer's Workshop
Learn tips to help you choose your story's setting and how to keep readers on the edge of their seats by building suspense.
About the presenter: Andrea Sielicki is currently an MFA fiction candidate at the University of Illinois. In 2021, she studied with Charles Baxter at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and in 2022 she was a recipient of the Josephine M. Bresee Memorial Award for short fiction. Originally from Wisconsin, she graduated from Cornell University.
Registration is encouraged.
- Sep 7, Where to Begin, 7 pm
- Sep 21, Story Elements: Setting and Suspense, 7 pm
- Oct 5, Story Elements: Pacing and Point of View, 7 pm
- Oct 19, Story Elements: Conflict and Resolution, 7 pm
- Nov 2, Finishing Your Story, 7 pm
- Nov 30, Short Story Awards Ceremony & Reading, 7 pm
Interested in our Short Story Contest? Entries due November 11. Visit champaign.org/short-story for additional details.
Registration is closed.
Main Library, Robeson Pavilion Room A & B
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