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Monday, January 11, 2010
My next eight-week short story workshop at the Grotto starts on January 26. Sign up or email me if you have any questions!
Short Story Intensive Workshop
Instructor: Elizabeth Bernstein
Contact:eb@elizabethbernstein.com
Number of sessions: 8
Meeting times: Tuesday evenings, 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm; January 26 - March 16
Course fee: $455.00
Description: A short story can knock you flat, it can break your heart, it can make you believe in the world. But how? How can you achieve all that in just a few thousand words? Through workshop and discussion, this class will cover all the key elements that make a great short story: plot, character, structure, tone, voice, pacing, tension, dialogue, believability, and more. Handouts, exercises and readings will be provided. Tips on marketing and selling your stories will also be discussed.
Be prepared to bring 2-3 stories to class to be workshopped. Class size limited to 12 students.
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 Short Story Intensive at The Grotto Thursday, September 10, 2009
I'm teaching a short story workshop at The Grotto this fall. Come join us! Email me with any questions.
Short Story Intensive
Instructor: Elizabeth Bernstein
Contact: eb@elizabethbernstein.com
Number of sessions: 8
Meeting times: Tuesday evenings, 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm; starting OCTOBER 27 (note new start date!)
Spots reserved with $100 deposit. Full fee due by second class.
Description: A short story can knock you flat, it can break your heart, it can make you believe in the world. But how? How can you achieve all that in just a few thousand words? Through workshop and discussion, this class will cover all the key elements that make a great short story: plot, character, structure, tone, voice, pacing, tension, dialogue, believability, and more. Handouts, exercises and readings will be provided. Tips on marketing and selling your stories will also be discussed. Be prepared to bring 2-3 stories to class to be workshopped. Class size limited to 12 students.
More info here.
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Friday, August 14, 2009
It's official -- my new website is up.
Do you feel stuck on your writing project and want coaching, in-depth feedback and support? Have you finished a draft and need help polishing it before you show it to agents? Or have you sold your book, and want to get it in top shape before sending it to your publisher?
No matter where you are in the writing process, EBC Books can help you tell your story. Offering:
- Comprehensive manuscript feedback
- Detailed line editing
- Copyediting and proofing
Writing coaching and quality editing of short stories, novels, narrative nonfiction, memoirs, academic and technical texts, and screenplays.
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Sunday, January 04, 2009
So sad about Bill Sonnenschein passing away in Madagascar in the last days of 2008. Here's a link to a column his wife, Ericka Lutz, wrote about living apart from him while he was away.
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Monday, December 08, 2008
Here's a really funny (and insightful) column in the New York Times by Timothy Egan on celebrity "writers" getting huge advances to write about how they made it through rehab or once lived next door to someone important. The publishing industry is laying off whole departments and not buying any new books "in these uncertain times," but Barbara Bush's dog just got a book deal?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/opinion/07egan.html?_r=2&emc=eta1
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This Saturday... Babylon Salon features The Big Ugly Review Sunday, November 30, 2008
The Big Ugly Review is the featured journal at the upcoming Babylon Salon Winter Reading on Saturday, December 6th at 7 p.m. The performance will be held at Cantina, 580 Sutter Street. (just off Union Square). As always, this rollicking reading and performance series promises great literature and fine cocktails. Poet and essayist Lola Haskins headlines the evening, and April Sinclair will read from her work in the current issue of Big Ugly. For more information, please visit www.babylonsalon.com. Admission is free!
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
I'll be reading at the upcoming Grotto Nights at the San Francisco Jewish Community Center, along with Mary Roach, Stephen Elliott, David Duncan and others. It's part of Litquake, which is a fabulous week of readings that is always a great time. It culminates with the famous Litcrawl up and down the Valencia Street corridor on Oct. 11. More on that below. But first, Grotto Nights:
Saturday, October 4, 8 pm
A Night of "Intimacy" With the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto
The Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, 3200 California Street
$22 General Admission/$20 JCCSF Members
Followed by reception 9:30-10:30 pm
Tickets available online here. Grotto Nights is back with "Intimacy" -- a multimedia extravaganza of tight genes, body fluids, and misplaced affections. The evening will feature authors Mary Roach, David Ewing Duncan, Elizabeth Bernstein, Stephen Elliott, Laura Fraser, and Jennifer Traig, filmmakers Caveh Zahedi and Jay Rosenblatt, music by Marc Capelle, plus an audio documentary by Jennifer Durban and art by JD Beltran, Emily Korson, and Jan Blythe. Come and get under the covers with us for an evening of literary and artistic hanky panky. Tickets available at the door or in advance at the JCC website.
And on the 11th, I'll be reading as part of Smith Magazine's Six Word Memoir event (but I'll only be reading six words.) Here's the info on that:
Clarion Alley, 8:30-9:30 p.m.
Between 17th & 18th Streets, Mission & Valencia Streets (FREE)
The Stories Behind the Stories from the Book That Launched a Six-Word Sensation, Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure
Bring your own memoir for a Six-Word Memoir Slam. Kate Evans, Rachel Fershleiser, Piper Kerman, Emilie Raguso, Deborah Schneider, Larry Smith, Charles Warren, and Six-Word Readings from Elizabeth Bernstein, Lisa Brown, Molly Ditmore, Daniel Handler, Candace Locklear, Joe Loya, Vincent Lauria, Josh Mchugh, Susie Smith, Ayelet Waldman, and Penelope Whitney
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First photos from the Release Party
Thanks to all who came out for the Big Ugly Review Issue #7 Release Party at the Deluxe. The readers were great and the crowd was warm and responsive. Dublit.com came and recorded it, so we'll soon be uploading audio files of many of our stories. Howard Junker, editor of ZYZZYVA magazine, took some photos at the event and has posted them to his blog; you can see them here. I'll add more photos, too, in a day or so.
Check out the new issue here.
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