March Meeting | Portraiture & Prose

Portraiture & Prose

We’ll discuss how to make short stories like portraits—what do our small stories tell about our
characters? What kind of lens do we want to use in portraying them; what’s essential to the image, and
what can we go without?

Speaker Bio

Cassidy McCants received her B.A. in creative writing from the University of Arkansas and her M.F.A. in
fiction writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She edits for Nimrod Journal and is the creator/editor of
Apple in the Dark. Her prose has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Lascaux Review, Liars’ League
NYC, Gravel, The Idle Class, filling Station, Witch Craft Magazine, Grist, Clackamas Literary Review, and
other publications. She won the 2020 Innovative Short Fiction Contest from The Conium Review, and her
stories have received honorable mentions from Glimmer Train Press. She was a 2020 Artist INC fellow.