Making Literary Monsters Zoom Seminar with Amber Sparks, Saturday, April 19th, 2025

Saturday, April 19th, 2025 Live Seminar Via Zoom 10AM – 1PM Central Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button (lower left) to talk with us. Instructor Amber Sparks is the author of an upcoming novel, Happy People Don’t Live Here, an upcoming short story collection, Did Parents In the Middle Ages Love Their Children? (both from Liveright/W.W. Norton), and four collections of short fiction, including And I Do Not Forgive You: Revenges and other Stories and The Unfinished World. Her fiction and essays have appeared in American Short Fiction, the Paris Review, Slate, Tin House, Granta, The Cut and elsewhere.   The monster has always been a key figure in literary fiction across the world - whether supernatural or human, pure evil or just misunderstood, monsters have served as antagonists, protagonists, and anti-heroes in short stories and novels since more or less the beginning of fiction. We’ll talk about the history of literary monsters: from Humbaba in Gilgamesh to Mary Shel