Panelists: Andrea Dupree (moderator), Natalie Hodges, Jenny Shank, and others
While there are definitely readers who love short forms, it's fairly standard for "success" to be measured in essays and short stories collected in a book. In addition, magazine and journal publications—and even collected works—can often be viewed as training ground for longer-form writing. In this panel, we'll consider whether a short essay or story is a worthy work of art on its own. Does it have to be part of a larger project? How do writers make the time to focus on short-form writing, which long ago ceased to be a way to make a living? What are the pressures on and opportunities arising from writing short pieces? And is there money in it—or does that even matter?
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