Description
Your Short Story Manuscript: Representing, Selling, and Publishing Your Collection
$200
4 Wednesdays, 2/18/2026-3/11/2026 | 7:00-9:00pm ET | Virtual
You’ve mastered writing a short story, but what comes next? Join Jared Lemus, author of Guatemalan Rhapsody, over four weeks to figure out the ins and outs of representing, selling, and publishing your collection.
Topics and questions covered include: Do you need to place stories in journals? How many, and why/how/when/where should you submit? How do query letters for journals and agents differ? Building an agent wish-list. What if they want a novel as well? What is going out on submission? What are nibbles? What are advances and how do they work? Timeframes–from agented to published. Will I have a book tour? How do I get into festivals? How do I keep track of my sales? What are the differences between two-book vs single-book deals?
About the Instructor:
Jared Lemus is the author of Guatemalan Rhapsody. His stories have appeared in or are forthcoming in The Atlantic, Story, The Kenyon Review, among other places. A Latine writer, Lemus has been a Tin House Scholar and Colgate Writers’ Conference fellow. He holds an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh and is the Visiting Writer at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
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