Small Packages

by Ron Seybold

The first edition of the Writers Workshop anthology, Small Packages is a collection of prose, stories, and poems created by the members of the Writers Workshop. Drafted or written in full during a single exercise and prompt session of a Creation Night, each of these works shows off the writer's voice, imagination, creativity and skills. When directed to write whatever comes during a Creation Night, these compact gifts came to the surface.

Stories and poems in Small Packages -- from "The Things We Built When We Were Children" to "Shortcuts" to the verse of "Old Timers" to "Four Paintings" to "Window Shopping" -- let readers experience the spectrum of life: from childhood to old age; in a war-torn country or in line at a convenience store; being a vengeful lover; or a young girl beginning to understand her mother after years of doubts.

56 pages, Paperback

Published December 15, 2016

About the author

Ron Seybold is the author of the novels Sins of Liberty and Viral Times, as well as his fatherhood+baseball memoir Stealing Home. He is director of Austin's Writer's Workshop, coaching and editing authors who create books in fiction and nonfiction; an interviewer for Austin Liti Limits; as well as a Community Member of the Writers' League of Texas. His newsletter and Substack, The Write Stuff, has been serving writers each Friday for more than four years. A graduate of the University of Texas journalism program and a US Army veteran, he helps authors develop their stories for publication. With his wife, the yoga teacher Abby Lentz, he lives and writes in Austin, an oasis where the grandchildren visit and the family poodle Ella campaigns for walks and fetches with a smile. Visit with him online at workshopwriter.com and ronseybold.com.

His novel Viral Times is a futuristic thriller about a pandemic that changes the way the world heals and loves. A two-time finalist in the Writers League of Texas contests for memoir and historical fiction, he's reported on the radio, acted in Austin melodramas and Shakespearian dramas, and launched a tech business publication with his wife. He's been a teaching volunteer at the Austin Bat Cave literacy program in schools and a fundraising cyclist for the Hill Country Ride for AIDS.