Each session of this course includes a written lecture, a writing assignment to turn in for instructor feedback, and creative exercises to further your learning.
Session 1: Writing the Beginning
Session 2: Pacing the Middle of Your Story
Session 3: How to End
Session 4: Revision
What will you learn?
Who should attend?
Student Testimonials
Meet the instructor
Ran Walker
Ran Walker (he/him)Â is the author of over 30 books. His short stories, flash fiction, microfiction, and poetry have appeared in a variety of anthologies and journals. Prior to becoming a writer and educator, he worked in magazine publishing and practiced law in Mississippi.
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He is the winner of the Indie Author Project's National Indie Author of the Year Award, the Black Caucus of the American Library Association Best Fiction Ebook Award, the Virginia Indie Author Project Award for Adult Fiction, and the Blind Corner Afrofuturism Microfiction Contest. His collection Keep It 100: 100-Word Stories was selected by Kojo Baffoe for South Africa's Sunday Times' Best Reads of 2021.Â
Ran is also the recipient of both a Mississippi Arts Commission/NEA artist grant and an artist mini-grant.  He has served as an Artist-in-Residence with the Mississippi Arts Commission. Additionally, he is a past participant in the Hurston-Wright Writers Week Workshop and is the recipient of a fellowship from the Callaloo Writers Workshop. He has been featured in Library Journal and Publishers Weekly and at the Library Journal Day of Dialog. He has served as a judge for several regional, national, and international contests, and he also regularly writes for Writer's Digest magazine, where he serves as a Contributing Editor.
Ran is an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Hampton University and teaches with Writer's Digest University. He lives in Virginia with his wife and daughter.
