Online: Never Your Friend: A Joy Williams Generative Writing Seminar

"A novel wants to befriend you. A short story almost never." - Joy Williams

Join us at Womb House Books for an online generative writing seminar based on Joy Williams eight essential attributes of the short story. 

The eight sessions will be inspired by each of Joy's rules with readings from Joy's short fiction. This seminar will be facilitated by Womb House Books' founder Jessica Ferri, and writers of any level and genre are welcome to participate. 

This is an online writing seminar held on Sunday mornings from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. PST. Dates: January 17, 24, 31, February 7, 14, 21, 28, and March 7. 

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Sustaining members of Womb House Books receive 15% off online and in shop, including classes and seminars. 

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Joy Williams is the author of four previous novels–including The Quick and the Dead, a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize–and four collections of stories, as well as Ill Nature, a book of essays that was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Among her many honors are the Rea Award for the Short Story and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She was elected to the Academy in 2008. She lives in Tucson, Arizona, and Laramie, Wyoming. 

Jessica Ferri is a writer, critic, and photographer. Her criticism has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, The Atlantic, Lit Hub, The Daily Beast, and more. She is the author of Silent Cities New York, Silent Cities San Francisco, Buried San Francisco, and Buried Hollywoodland. She has taught creative writing at Mount Tamalpais College, Antioch University, and the Mendocino Writers Conference. She is the founder of Womb House Books and the creator of Book Domme.