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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$65.00 · November 7
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.
| Start Date | November 7 |
|---|---|
| Day(s) of the Week | Tuesday |
| Class Times | 6:30pm – 8:30pm CT |
| Sessions | 1 |
| Location | Zoom (online) |
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| Price | $65 |
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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. In-class writing prompts will give students the opportunity to work with a variety of hermit crab forms, such as product labels, email threads, or AITA posts. We’ll be reading works by Charles Yu, Kathy Fish, Aimee Picchi, and others.
Ruth Joffre was born and raised in Northern Virginia. Her mother was born in Cochabamba, Bolivia, in 1950, and Ruth has taken her mother's maiden name to honor her. Ruth earned her BA from Cornell University and her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. After graduate school, she moved to Seattle, where she served as the 2020-2022 Hugo House Prose Writer-in-Residence and co-organized the Fight for Our Lives performance series. She now lives in Columbia, MO. In 2023, she will be a visiting writer at University of Washington Bothell and George Mason University.
Ruth is the author of the story collection Night Beast, which was longlisted for The Story Prize. Her work has been shortlisted for the Creative Capital Awards and been supported by residencies at The Arctic Circle, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Lighthouse Works, and the Whiteley Center. Her fiction and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in Kenyon Review, Pleiades, Gulf Coast, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Hayden's Ferry Review, Wigleaf, the anthologies Best Microfiction 2021 & 2022, and elsewhere. Her interview series with the authors, editors, and curators of craft books and resources is freely available in Catapult’s Don’t Write Alone and the Kenyon Review blog.
This class will explore examples of expert POV dexterity through close reading and discussion.
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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.
Add to cartJoin 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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