Welcome to the Four Elements Press Writing Workshop!

We offer one-on-one writing workshops with author and editor Alexander Casillas

Dive into a current WIP or start from scratch on a new piece of short fiction or non-fiction while learning the tools needed to take the piece to the next level of press quality writing. Learn the writing craft techniques of the top writers of our times and how to implement their theory into your art for gripping content that gives your readers everything they want and keeps them returning for more.

What to expect…

The standard Short Story Writing Workshop is a 3 part Video Call workshop course.

• Meeting 1 focuses on craft theory education
• Meeting 2 is a real-time editorial review of your writing with the editor
• Meeting 3 is a comprehensive review of the edited piece brought to meet press style standards as informed by the craft theory reviewed during the workshops

Each meeting is a minimum of 1 hour long, with the likely possibility that the meeting times could go longer to fully review the content.

*Between each meeting authors will be required to self-edit their drafts using the learned craft theory to reach press style quality standards.

Short stories are up to 9,000 words. (anything outside of that please contact us about a custom workshop experience)

Publication after the Workshop…

As part of our mission to uplift silenced voices and promote authors that reach our press quality standards and in effort to showcase the work authors create with our guidance, successful completion of the workshop earns the author consideration for the piece to be included in one of our Short Story Collections we publish as a main focus of our mission.

After completion of the workshop, publication will be reviewed by the press and offered to authors if the piece has a place in a Short Story Collection and if the piece is accepted by the press. Subsequent agreements will be offered in the event the press deems, by their sole judgement, the workshop piece suitable for publication.