Novelist Rebecca Makkai presents six online lectures on aspects of the novel, addressing the writer's work plan, novel structure and outlining, backstage decisions, pacing, character, and editing.
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Join us in person! CWE Workshop is designed for intermediate writers or beginning writers who have taken Creative Writing Essentials and would benefit in putting those skills into practice in a workshop-focused class.
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Whether trying to revise a stand-alone chapter or considering the broader arc of your full manuscript, these revision techniques are graspable, effective, and empowering.
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This two-hour class is open to both genre and literary fiction writers curious about featuring non-human characters in their stories that subvert common cliches and stereotypes.
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This generative class will introduce students to writing in found forms, also known as "hermit crabs" after the creature that makes its home out of whatever form it finds.
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We’ll be using the Tarot’s striking and powerful imagery to tap into your imagination and uncover surprising new things about your story and characters—you don’t need to know anything about Tarot cards to benefit from this workshop.
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We'll talk about the larger purpose of memoir, as well as moral questions that arise for the memoirist in the process of writing.
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In this fiction PJ Seminar, we’ll look at the intimidating statistical realities of the publishing world, then we’ll focus on ways to improve our openings scenes to tilt the odds in our favor.
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This in-person workshop examines how memory lives in the body, using our own stories and experiences as a contribution to a wider cultural and political dialogue that centers human beings.
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$70.00 · November 15
We’ll talk about the larger purpose of memoir, as well as moral questions that arise for the memoirist in the process of writing.
| Start Date | November 15 |
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| Class Times | 7:00pm – 9:00pm CT |
| Day(s) of the Week | Wednesday |
| Sessions | 1 |
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| Location | Zoom (online) |
| Price | $70 |
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In 1978, John Gardner published On Moral Fiction. It’s a complex and occasionally wrong-headed book, but Gardner’s central question–how can fiction improve our lives?–is one that yields all kinds of interesting results when we apply it to the memoir. We’ll talk about the larger purpose of memoir, as well as moral questions that arise for the memoirist in the process of writing.
Claire Dederer is the author of two critically acclaimed memoirs: Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning and Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses, which was a New York Times bestseller. Poser has been translated into 11 languages, optioned for television by Warner Bros., and adapted for the stage.
Dederer is at work on Monsters, a nonfiction book investigating good art made by bad people, forthcoming from Knopf. The book is based on her 2017 essay for the Paris Review, “What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?” The essay went globally viral, was a Longform best essay of the year, and has repeatedly been cited as one of the most influential and insightful pieces of writing on the Me Too movement to date.
Dederer is a long-time contributor to The New York Times. Her essays, criticism, and reviews have also appeared in The Paris Review, The Atlantic, The Nation, Vogue, Marie Claire, Elle, Real Simple, Entertainment Weekly, New York magazine, Chicago Tribune, Newsday, Slate, Salon, High Country News, and many other publications. Her essays have appeared in numerous anthologies, most recently Labor Day. Dederer began her career as the chief film critic for Seattle Weekly. She has taught at Hugo House and the University of Washington, as well as residencies, workshops, conferences, MFA programs, and universities across the country. She currently teaches at the Pacific University low residency MFA Program.
She is the recipient of a Hedgebrook residency and a Lannan Foundation residency.
In this generative fiction workshop, we'll discuss how to craft memorable, resonant characters. Students will leave class with a range of tools for developing characters that readers will think about long after reading.
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In this generative workshop we will flip traditional understandings of environmental writing by reading work that pushes the traditional boundaries of the genre. By the end of the session participants will have a seed essay draft.
Add to cartThis generative class will introduce students to writing in found forms, also known as "hermit crabs" after the creature that makes its home out of whatever form it finds.
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This one-night course will explore how poems describe, interpret, and interact with visual art.
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