Raising the (Wooden) Stakes: A Writing Masterclass with Rachel Harrison!

We're thrilled to welcome New York Times bestselling author Rachel Harrison back to The Twisted Spine for a special writing masterclass, Raising the (Wooden) Stakes: Creating Real Tension in Genre Fiction. Join us this February for a unique opportunity to improve your craft and learn from one of the most exciting voices in Horror!

Each class features writing exercises and is limited to 20 people. The intimate class size allows all participants to share and discuss their work.

We'll be offering the workshop two times in February:

• Wednesday, February 4th from 7-9 PM
• Wednesday, February 18th from 7-9 PM

PLEASE NOTE: THE MASTERCLASS IS THE SAME BOTH WEEKS.

About Raising the (Wooden) Stakes: Creating Real Tension in Genre Fiction:

Help! I’m being hunted down by the very angry, very angsty monster I made this one time at school. He keeps murdering everyone I know and wants me to build him a wife!

Conflict in genre fiction can seem, on the surface, pretty unrelatable. How do we get readers to emotionally invest when the stakes aren’t of this reality? This class consists of a presentation, prompts and games that will explore different approaches to creating genuine, believable tension in fantastical worlds and raising the stakes in a speculative narrative.

Rachel Harrison is the New York Times Bestselling author of Play Nice, So Thirsty, Black Sheep, Such Sharp Teeth, Cackle, and The Return, which was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. Her short fiction has appeared in Guernica, Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, as an Audible Original, and in her debut story collection Bad Dolls.

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