Join us for this generative fiction-writing workshop! Expect to get some new material and, if you’re game, share it with others for gentle, helpful critiques.

About the Workshop

What can random objects tell us about who owns them? What are their quirks? Their strengths? Their weaknesses? In this workshop, participants will be handed a printed ad at random from Facebook Marketplace. Based on the ad’s description, the picture itself, and any other clues on the page, they will develop two distinct characters: the one who is selling and the one who is buying. How are the two different and how may they be alike? For those who want to participate, expect to swap drafts and critique each other’s work.

About the Author/Instructor

Nikoletta Gjoni is a writer living outside of Washington, DC. Her work has been published in Atticus Review, Emerson Review, Alan Squire Publishing, the Ex-Puritan, Cleaver Magazine, and elsewhere. Her story “The Obscure Historical Sorrows of Canines” was shortlisted for the Masters Review’s 2025 Best Emerging Writers anthology.

Hosted by Kramers, 1517 Connecticut Ave., NW. Washington, DC. Learn more (and purchase tickets) here.