wild Aster Books

Celebrate spooky season with us by sharing your scariest, witchiest, ghouliest writing on stage! Join us for this special spooky season edition of our monthly Literary Open Mic! Everyone is welcome to share their spooky writing, whatever that means to you! Not up for sharing your work? Join the audience and listen! Costumes are encouraged!...

Have you always wanted to write poetry but aren’t sure where to begin? Come write one with us! In this two-hour generative poetry workshop, we’ll explore different forms and approaches to writing poems, from free verse to more structured forms. We’ll talk about where poems begin, how to find an idea worth following, and how...

For one night only, we're celebrating the stories that inspired us to start writing in the first place. All fandoms are welcome! For one night only, we're celebrating the stories that inspired us to start writing in the first place. Bring your fan fiction, whether it's heartfelt, hilarious, romantic, angsty, or gloriously unhinged, and share...

Saturday August 15, 6:00pm - 8:00pm Learn how to create fear, tension, and unease in under 1,000 words. In this two-hour flash fiction workshop, participants will explore the art of compressed horror through atmosphere, suspense, ambiguity, and the uncanny. Drawing from psychological horror, gothic fiction, and the strange everyday, writers will experiment with crafting stories...

Join us for a magical evening of storytelling from local Atlanta writers! Sign up to share your story or join the audience and listen. This month we're celebrating stories based on folklore and magic. Join us to share your stories of legends, myths, your own imagination, or the magic of everyday life! Maybe it's a...

Wednesday July 8, 6:30pm-8:30pm Explore memory through short, image-driven storytelling in this two-hour flash memoir workshop. Participants will use vivid details, sensory language, and personal experience to craft brief narrative pieces drawn from memory. Through close reading, guided prompts, and writing exercises, writers will experiment with compression, scene, reflection, and the fragmented nature of remembering....

Join us at Wild Aster Books for a Pride literary open mic centered on the theme Metamorphosis. This is a night for stories about change in all its forms, quiet shifts, radical transformations, and everything in between. We invite writing that explores becoming, unbecoming, and the spaces where identity and language are still taking shape....

In this 6-week workshop, young writers will explore the craft of the short story through imagination, observation, and play. Each week blends short readings, guided discussion, and generative writing exercises designed to help students discover their voice and develop original fiction. We’ll focus on the core elements of storytelling—character, scene, dialogue, setting, and conflict—moving between...

Sunday June 7: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Explore the strange, surreal, and fantastical in this two-hour flash fiction workshop. Drawing from mythology, folklore, speculative fiction, and the uncanny, participants will write short-short stories that bend reality and experiment with atmosphere, transformation, and imaginative worldbuilding. Through close reading, guided prompts, and dedicated writing time, writers...