Description

Want to learn how to strategically use story shapes to create dynamic arcs and a satisfying plot that your reader can’t stop reading? Join us for this Literary Masters Lecture! Each session features an engaging craft talk, actionable writing strategies, and a live Q&A with the author. In this two-part intensive lecture, award-winning fiction writer Marcela Fuentes will share how to pick an excellent shape for your story, create a strong opening, and evoke striking images. She’ll also provide craft tools and ideas you can practice on your own following the lecture.

WORKSHOP DATES
Saturday(s), October 4 & 11, 2025, from 10:00 - 11:30 am ct online via Zoom. 

COST
Nonmember $90; Member $75; Student/Educ/Mil $63

Marcela Fuentes is an award-winning fiction writer and essayist. Her debut novel Malas won the Texas Institute of Letters First Fiction Prize and the National Cowboy Museum & Western Heritage Award for Outstanding Western Novel. The book was longlisted for the Center For Fiction’s First Novel Prize and was featured in The New York Times, Washington Post, People, Elle Magazine, and Texas Monthly. Malas was Good Morning America Book Club’s pick for June 2024. Marcela is an associate professor at TCU in Fort Worth. She was born and raised in Del Rio, Texas.