Planning and Writing Short Form Fiction

Name: Planning and Writing Short Form Fiction
Start: 2025-04-12T12:00:00-04:00
Location: Peppino's

Schedule

Sat, 12 Apr, 2025 at 12:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Peppino's | Kentwood, MI

Our speaker will join us from the UK on Zoom.
In this talk, we will cover outlining, plotting, and writing short form fiction (short story up to novella length) and the key differences between this and planning a novel length work. We will discuss this using examples of works of fantasy and science fiction, and simultaneously examine where these genres intersect with horror and how this influence can strengthen your work.
Stephen Howard (he/him) is an English novelist and short story writer from Manchester, now living in Cheshire with his wife, Rachel, and their daughter, Flo. An English Literature and Creative Writing graduate from the Open University, his work has been published by Lost Boys Press, The No Sleep Podcast, Metastellar, and others. He's also published one novel, a comic fantasy titled Beyond Misty Mountain, and the collections Condemned To Be, Little Book of Horrors, & Ophelia in the Underworld and Other Melancholy Tales (Alien Buddha Press, 2023). A horror novella is forthcoming from Wild Hunt Books in April 2025. Find Stephen at:
Twitter/Bluesky/TikTok: @SteJHoward
Website: www.stephenhowardblog.wordpress.com