Stephanie Feldman's Blog
September 26, 2025
PA Spotlight Book Club Online – Oct. 23
This event is in partnership with one of my favorite bookstores, A Novel Idea, a community-minded bookstore and event space based in East Passyunk, Philadelphia, run by Alexander Schneider and Christina Rosso-Schneider. Read more about A Novel Idea and purchase your books here.
Register and submit your questions for me here, and join the Discord group chat to discuss the book as you go.
September 11, 2025
September 2025 Events
Bernheimer Symposium with Julia Elliott and Stephanie Feldman
Wednesday, September 17, 5:30pm
Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania
Register here.
Galloway’s Gospel Book Talk
with Sam Rebelein
Friday, September 26, 6pm
A Novel Idea
Get tickets here.
May 23, 2025
New Classes for Fall 2025
“Fix Your Novel’s Plot” (four sessions) guides you in developing a complete story structure for your novel. You’ll leave with fresh insight into your projects, and tools for jumpstarting and revising your novel drafts.
“Short Stories for Spooky Season” (one session) explores horror theory and techniques, and leads you in generating ideas for and drafting an original horror story.
Learn more and enroll via the Writing Co-Lab. Questions? Email me!
January 17, 2025
THE NIGHT PARADE AND OTHER STORIES Coming in 2026
I’m excited to share that Fairwood Press will publish a collection of short fiction, including the new title novella, in 2026. Get ready to join The Night Parade.
December 13, 2024
2024 Eligibility Post
In 2024, my short story “Bachelorettes on the Devil’s Dance Floor” appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction (Sept./Oct. 2024). The story is available to read on the SFWA and HWA member sites. Grateful to everyone reading at the end of the year!
August 29, 2024
“Unlock Your Novel’s Plot” Two-Hour Intensive Returns
Weds., Oct. 23, 2024
Online: 7:30pm-9:30pm, EST
$75
You have an idea for a novel, but you don’t know where to start—or maybe you’ve started writing and stalled out, or completed a draft but don’t know how to revise. What drives a great work of fiction? How do you create a story strong enough to sustain a novel? And how do you write 70, 80, or 90,000 words?
This two-hour intensive class tackles the fundamentals of character and conflict; the elements of a satisfying narrative arc; and practical strategies for completing that first draft and beginning your second. Our time together will include presentations, guided writing, and discussion. In the end, you’ll leave with fresh ideas and concrete plans for your novel, as well as three worksheets to apply to this and future writing projects.
Enroll via the Writing Co-Lab.
Questions? Email me at sbf at stephaniefeldman.com.
New Story! “Bachelorettes on the Devil’s Dance Floor”
I’m thrilled that my newest story, “Bachelorettes on the Devil’s Dance Floor,” has entered the world between the pages of the September/October 2024 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction. Jealous sisters, resentful besties, and reckless brides–and, of course, the devil (or is he?)–all in time for Halloween.
Read an excerpt and purchase at Asimov’s.
“The building has a rough stone façade, narrow smoke-gray windows, and brightly painted signs in several languages. The bachelorettes line up behind a crush of Asian tourists, each wearing a red lanyard.
“That bar has a shorter line,” Elle says, gesturing across the square. She’d like to get drunk as quickly as possible.
“But this bar’s authentic!” Bea argues. She wants them to remember, later—Bea planned the best trip, Bea found the best bar. She’s nearly forgotten that their attendance is an accident. A mistake, even.
“It’s for tourists,” a man says. It’s the man in the dark coat, the man with the dark eyes.
His English is just barely molded by German. He smiles at Angie again, and this time she smiles back. “It’s not fit for a bride,” he says. “Wouldn’t you like to see the real Walpurgisnacht?”
Angie plays with the hem of her veil. She knows the plastic tiara and the sash printed “bride” in gold make her alluring—ripe but forbidden. She’s like a true spring maiden under the maypole. She plans to enjoy it.
“Yes,” Angie says.”
May 26, 2023
My StokerCon 2023 Schedule
I’m looking forward to my second StokerCon on June 15-18 in Pittsburgh. I’m participating in two events on Saturday:
9 am – Author Reading
with Sarah Read, Zachary Rosenberg, & Tamika Thompson
12pm – “Listening to the Voices in Your Head: Crafting Point of View”
with Douglas Ford, Ruthann Jagge,, Joseph Scipione, Catriona Ward, & Valerie B. Williams
May 11, 2023
Read the “The Getaway” Online
Weird Horror has posted my short story “The Getaway” (Issue #6) to read online.
“The person stood in the front yard, hunched over, their shoulder blades poked through their long scraggly hair. Strange that I missed it before, but they were oddly colorless—the whole image oddly colorless, like it was taken at twilight or before sunrise. I zoomed in and the image jumped to the porch swing, the black windows behind it, the big round clock beside the door. I dragged my finger on the screen, almost expecting the lawn to be empty—the figure just a glitch or my imagination.
But there they were.”
April 9, 2023
Book Signings in April
Looking forward to celebrating the new Philadelphia Barnes & Noble and Independent Bookstore Day with Main Point Books. Come say hi!
Barnes & Noble Philadelphia Grand Reopening
Book Signing
Friday, April 14, 5-7pm
1708 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, PA
Independent Bookstore Day at Main Point Books
Book Signing
Saturday, April 29, noon-2pm
116 N. Wayne Ave, Wayne, PA
