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August 2020 | Zoom Meeting
Topic: Short Story Writing | Speaker: Robert Lopresti
​Presentation Duration: 77 minutes

About Our Guest Speaker

Short story writer and novelist Robert Lopresti was a government information librarian for forty-one years, retiring in2018. During that time he wrote non-fiction including an American Libraries article How Overdue Books Caused the Civil War. He also wrote When Women Didn’t Count,” an award-winning book on how federal statistics marginalized women over the years.

Then he turned to horror, mysteries, and humor, not necessarily in that order, but sometimes in the same story. Since then, half of his short stories have been published in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. One published in “Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine won the 2018 Derringer Award for Short Story.
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He has written two novels, won of which has named one of the best mysteries of 2015 by Kings River Life Magazine.

He has been a finalist for the Derringer Award five times— winning three— and has also picked up a Black Orchid Novella Award, and an Anthony nomination. His short story "Street of the Dead House," which appeared in the anthology nEvermore!, was reprinted in both BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES 2016 and in YEAR'S BEST DARK FANTASY & HORROR: 2016. He has complied a veritable textbook of how to write short stories —and offers it free to anyone who visits.
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