: Resources with Examples of Short Stories to Teach Dialogue I'm teaching creative writing workshops, in which we read short stories with examples of literary elements to better understand how to use them in creating stories.

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I spoke with a few professional authors & playwrights, who also happen to teach creative writing workshops, and these were the short stories they recommended:

Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway

Popular Mechanics by Raymond Carver

Trial by Combat by Shirley Jackson

A Telephonic Conversation by Mark Twain

For Esmé—with Love and Squalor by J. D. Salinger

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one of the main resources which is considered in any writing workshop, is Anton Chekhov's short stories.

you can also teach dialogues through them, However they are a little bit old-fashioned. but surely they would be helpful.
you can use Plays too. which are full of dialogues.

However you should choose simple plays as a start.
many of plays are philosophical and confusing. like Rhinoceros (Eugene Ionesco).

I would also recommend Haruki Murakami's short stories.
(some of them are very surreal; like "The strange library", be careful about them, they don't help you teach dialogue)

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'Meat' by Terry Bisson. I discovered this today and it's great - it's entirely dialogue, but I didn't notice that the first read through, I was so engaged with it. www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html

I am also taking extracts of vlog posts by editors about what not to do with dialogue, and extracts from an interview with Aaron Sorkin (I know screenwriting is different, but he has some usable points and his dialogue is riveting).