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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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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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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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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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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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 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.
Add to cartDavid Stuart MacLean is a PEN/American award-winning essayist. His essays and stories have been featured in The New York Times, the Guardian UK, Newsweek, Ploughshares, and on the radio program, This American Life. His memoir The Answer to the Riddle Is Me was named by Kirkus Review as one of the Best Books of 2014. He co-founded the award-winning Poison Pen Reading Series in Houston, TX.