Fiction Workshop for Teens
Online
Instructor: Cristina Fries
Schedule: Thursdays | 6:00 - 7:30 PM PST
Oct 22 – Nov 19, 2026
Tuition: $375
The Fiction Workshop for Teens
In this fiction writing workshop for teens, you will engage your imagination, discover how to think like a writer, and revise your work with the help of your peers. If you have been excited by creative writing but need some structured support to get your ideas onto the page, this class is for you.
We’ll read short stories by masters and learn from their craft, and you will engage in writing prompts and exercises that help build your writing-muscle and develop new stories.
Once you have practiced putting together scenes, developing compelling characters, vivid settings, and engaging plots, you will share a completed short story with your peers.
During the workshop, your peers and instructor will offer feedback that will help you return to your story with a clearer sense of what is working well, and where you can push your piece into the shape it wants to be.
Cristina Fries
Cristina Fríes is a Colombian-American fiction writer based
in San Francisco, CA. As a Steinbeck Fellow and West Edge Opera commission recipient, she is at work on a novel and a full-length opera libretto. Her stories have appeared in PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2018, The Michigan Quarterly Review, EPOCH Magazine, The Adroit Journal, swamp pink, Vestal Review, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a PEN/Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Tin House Scholarship, and the Adroit Journal Veasna So Scholarship. She received her MA in Creative Writing from UC Davis, and is represented by Sophia Bark at WME.