So often in horror we're taught: you must scare! Yet so few resources are geared towards how to&mdash\;the actual me chanics of how to scare people. Exploring concepts such as creating an atm osphere of palpable dread\, subverting genre expectations\, setting as cha racter\, the Uncanny\, establishing temporal dislocation in a reader\, and the interconnectedness of screaming and laughing\, this \;craft-orien ted workshop will focus on the finer points of generating \;fear \ ;in fiction. In addition to exploring these concepts\, watching a few terr ifying film clips\, and reading contemporary excerpts from authors such as Brian Evenson\, Alice Sola Kim\, Kelly Link\, Victor LaValle\, Karen Russ ell\, Carmen Maria-Machado and others\, we'll also embark upon a series of generative exercises that will set well you upon the path toward devising a chillingly effectively tale of your own.
\nAll levels of adult wr iters welcome. \;
\nAdrian Van Young is the author of four books of fiction: The Man Who Noticed Everything (Black La wrence Press)\, Shadows in Summerland (Open Road Medi a)\, Midnight Self (Black Lawrence Press)\, andâ €¯Rough Beast (forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in Octo ber 2026). His fiction\, non-fiction\, and criticism have been publi shed or are forthcoming in Electric Literature's Recommended Reading \, Black Warrior Review\, Conjunctions\,  Guernica\, BOMB\ , Granta\, McSweeney's\, and The New Yorkerâ €¯online. More at adri anvanyoung.com. \;
\nSponsored by the Library Foundation of New Orleans. \;
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