This is the workshop for everyone who is ready to get their writing read!
We will work on finishing and publishing short stories, flash fiction, (shorter) essays and flash
nonfiction. If you are working on a collection of short texts this is also for you.
Now is the time to figure out why your favourite text has not been published yet. To dust of
something you used to love but now feels stale. Or maybe your (virtual) drawers are
overflowing with writing no one else has read yet? This is the place to figure out how to get it
out there.
Email us at hello@thereaderberlin.com to sign up!
Every week we will workshop texts and talk about a specific topic related to finishing, editing
and publishing our writing in journals and magazines.
We will talk about:
— What editors look for
— How to know if a piece is finished
— How to edit our own writing
— How to continue when a piece or process has become stagnant
— By whom we want to be read, and why
— How to give and receive feedback (and why it matters)
Through reading and critiquing each others texts we will learn how to move a piece closer to
finding its readers.
The participants will be asked to submit 1 text (max 1500 words) each by the beginning of
the workshop, and the topics will be structured around the submitted pieces. The texts can
be anywhere from rough first drafts to almost finished. There will also be shorter writing
prompts and exercises during our meetings, with the aim to continue working on something
you already have.
Participants are expected to spend time reading assignments in between the sessions (max
2 hours, but probably less).
Even though we are working on smaller pieces the skills learned in this workshop will also
help you finish and edit longer texts. If you are working on writing samples for applications,
this workshop will also be helpful.
This workshop is open to writers of all genres and all levels of experiences – non-native
English speakers are very welcome.
Information on sliding-scale:
To decide your payment please consider that 135€ would be the standard payment if you can
generally afford both your basic needs and some leisure activities. If you have few worries
about money a higher payment would be expected, as it enables others with less means to
take part in the workshop. If you are not able to pay the lowest end of the scale, please
contact me, and we will find a solution.
Lukas Kofoed Reimann is a Danish/German writer, editor and care worker living in Berlin. He
is primarily writing speculative memoir and speculative fiction, focusing on micro fiction and
fragmented narratives.
He is a fiction editor at Oranges Journal and has co-edited an anthology of Danish LGBTQ+
fiction.
In 2022 his text Undiagnosed was selected as one of the runners up for the Berlin Writing
Prize, and in 2023 he was a recipient of a work-stipend for Non-German litterature from the
Berlin Senate. Since completing a Masters Thesis on Trans* literature in 2019 his writing has
been published in anthologies, journals and magazines. Most recently in SAND Journal and
Stadtsprachen Magazin.
He is often writing about his own experiences with gender transition and chronic pain but
also anxieties about climate change and nature/human relationships in general feature
heavily in his writing. Despite his own writing often taking on rather serious themes he loves
reading cozy fantasy and community-oriented science fiction.