Dec 08, 2021
How to Write an Ending
Why is it so hard to land the ending of a story? We want the endings of our stories to feel surprising yet inevitable—which is easier said than done.
Jenny Shank
Jenny Shank's story collection Mixed Company won the George Garrett Fiction Prize and was published by Texas Review Press. Her novel The Ringer won the High Plains Book Award. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Poets & Writers, Prairie Schooner, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Toast, Barrelhouse, and Dear McSweeney's. Her work has been honorably mentioned by The Best American Essays, the Pushcart Prize anthology, and her mother. She teaches in the Mile High MFA program at Regis University and the Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver.
