Description
This workshop with author and lawyer Saeed Teebi will focus on the principles of structuring a short story. We will discuss common forms, beginnings, and endings, as well as offer a few general tips.
Webinar Host
Saeed Teebi is a writer and lawyer based in Toronto. His debut collection of short stories, Her First Palestinian, was a finalist for several awards, including the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Prize and the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. The title story was shortlisted for the CBC Short Story Award.
Upcoming Webinars

Building an Author Business with Tao Wong
Building an Author Business with Tao Wong
With numerous publishing options available to writers these days, understanding the optimal path for a career that aligns with an author’s goals, time and resources can be difficult. This workshop will outline common goals, restrictions and benefits of each path—traditional publishing, independent publishing, or some combination of both—to help an author find what works best for them and meet their overall career goals.
This session will be closed-captioned. Closed captioning provided by Zoom auto transcription.
This session will be followed by a Q&A.
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Writing Intimacy with Ruby Barrett
Writing Intimacy with Ruby Barrett
Writing on-page intimacy can be intimidating for even the most seasoned of genre fiction writers. As the author of high-heat, open door romances, Ruby Barrett has mastered the art of on-page intimacy that is inclusive of all genders and heat levels. Ruby will help authors identify the heat level they are comfortable with for their stories, provide advice on how to approach intimate scenes without using overly flowery or — what is sometimes deemed as — cheesy language, and how intimate scenes can and should be used to progress plot in genre fiction.
This session will be closed-captioned. Closed captioning provided by Zoom auto transcription.
This session will be followed by a Q&A.