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LUCAS SOUTHWORTH – Award Winning Short Story Author

 

Lucas Southworth’s book of short stories, Everyone Here Has a Gun, won the Association of Writers and Writing Program’s Grace Paley Prize. He has published stories in magazines such as the Pushcart Prize Anthology, Conjunctions, The Iowa Review, AGNI, Copper Nickel, and many others. He has also received Grants, fellowships, and residencies from The Maryland State Arts Council, The Truman Capote Trust, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Jentel Artist Residency Program, Monson Arts, and Arteles Creative Center in Finland. Usually, he divides his time between Baltimore and Washington, where teaches fiction and screenwriting at Loyola University Maryland and at Seattle U.

Lucas will have sessions on:

  • How to Design a Smashing Screenplay: The importance of planning and outlining a story before you write
  • Key Elements of Writing the Short Story

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