Announcing fall classes by The Black Fox Writing Academy! Join us for Burning Down the Haunted House (Trope): How Architecture Amplifies Horror with Atina Hartunian.
This class will be held live via Zoom and WILL be recorded.
Class Description:
Burning Down the Haunted House (Trope): How Architecture Amplifies Horror, examines how architectural elements in literature reflect and heighten horror, moving from Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” to contemporary works like In the Dream House and Model Home. It’s designed as an hour and fifteen-minute talk with a visual presentation, handouts, close readings, and discussion prompts to spark new thinking around horror and setting. Students will leave with new tools to stretch their craft and understanding of the haunted house beyond its traditional forms into more inventive territory.
Writers of all levels may register via our Submittable page.
When: October 28, 2026, from 6:30-8 PM ET
Investment for the workshop: $39
*Zoom access info for live attendees will be sent out immediately via Submittable, so be sure to check under the messages tab. Recorded class access will be sent out within 24 hours after the class concludes.
Thank you so much for considering the Black Fox Writing Academy!
About Your Instructor:
Atina Hartunian is a writer, independent scholar, and educator. A first-generation Armenian American, she earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific University in 2023. Her honors include a Teaching Fellowship from Anaphora Arts (2024), a Pacific University MFA Merit Scholarship (2021), and residencies with the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop, Rockvale Writers’ Colony (2025), and most recently the Carolyn Moore Writing Residency (2026).
She is currently developing constraint-based prompts for generative writing sessions and a five-part Horror Lecture Series, which she has presented at the ThunderDome Conference, The Writer’s Center, and CALYX Press. Her chapbook Love at First Sip was recently shortlisted for the C&R Press Summer Tide Pool Chapbook Awards (2025) and her flash piece I’d Rather Lose My Tits Than My Hair received an Honorable Mention in the 2026 Pleiades Flash Fiction Prize.
Atina lives and writes in Los Angeles and serves as Editor-in-Chief of PACT DeskSet Substack.
*Note: We will not be able to offer refunds once registration has been completed, unless for some reason we have to cancel the class. If you have any questions, please reach out to racquel@blackfoxlitmag.com.
