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The Architecture of Fiction with Nick Mamatas

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Where do you start? Where are you going? How do you get there? Answer those questions in this four-week workshop with author Nick Mamatas.

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LitReactor offers a unique approach to a writing education: You study what you want, when you want, at your own pace. We bring in veteran authors and industry professionals to host classes covering a wide range of topics in an online environment that’s interactive and flexible.

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Polish & Publish Your Personal Essay with Chloe Caldwell

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Want to learn how to write effective personal essays and place them for publication? Then check out this four-week workshop with Chloe Caldwell!

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Fundamentals of Short Fiction with Steve Weddle

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In this beginner-friendly four-week intensive workshop, author and editor Steve Weddle reveals the key skills for crafting short fiction to a publishable standard.

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An amalgam of principals, techniques, strategies, and perspectives deployed singly and in unison to achieve a vision that couldn’t otherwise be achieved. Therein lies the heart of gutter opera.

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How To Format, Package & Self-Publish Your eBook with Joseph Nassise

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A three-week class that will teach you how to format your eBook, sell it on major digital platforms—and then make sure people can find it.

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Learn to use humor when writing about traumatic experiences to create powerful scenes and stories in this four-week class with memoirist Sean Davis.

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Lean, Mean Writin' Machine with John Skipp

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Want your writing to pack punch? Want every word to leave readers gasping for more? Whatever your genre, John Skipp will show you the moves in this intensive four-week training session.

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In this four-week workshop, learn to build a living, breathing, fantastical world—with real rules, real stakes, and real mechanics.

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Reading, Writing, Fun, Prizes : Our Current Writing Event

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LitReactor's crime writing challenge with our first-ever publication grand prize in Thuglit!

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"Chapter One Only - CREATURISTIC" by Anna Gutmann

12 year old Topher discovers a world full of mystical creatures and mayhem. First chapter only.

"Please Hold for the President" by Burning_Bush

A short satirical telephone conversation between Obama and Putin. It contains very strong language so please do not read if easily offended.

"The Breach" by tristankneschke

Treffeme is a city enclosed in glass domes to protect its citizens from thousands of flies raging outside. A girl meets her neighbor who has an...

"(Unfortunately) Untitled" by Doug Allan

Holly is eight years old and she loves violent computer games but can she draw the line to keep her brutality only virtual?

"Nights Out Concerto" by EscherTO

Ruminations upon nights out and human desire, structured loosely as a 'concerto'. Focusing on the carnal nature of the ritualised act of...

Sharpen Your Skills : Essays On Writing

Stocking Stuffers: 13 Writing Tips From Chuck Palahniuk

From: Chuck Palahniuk

Christmas comes early today! In this essay Chuck provides a grab-bag of incredibly useful ideas that don't require too much individual elaboration. From delineating the three types of speech, to simple maxims for the writing life.

Splat Goes the Hero: Visceral Horror

From: Jack Ketchum

Jack Ketchum on violence, pain, and the importance of not looking away.

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Writers Helping Writers : From The Workshop

Sharpen Your Skills : Essays On Writing

Stocking Stuffers: 13 Writing Tips From Chuck Palahniuk

Splat Goes the Hero: Visceral Horror

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