Year-long FICTION Writing Workshop on Zoom
Dear friends,
I’m happy to be teaching a year-long fiction writing workshop on Zoom, Tuesday evenings beginning June 4, via the wonderful Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. The workshop is open to anyone anywhere in the world with an interest in writing fiction of any kind. If the workshop sounds like a good fit for you, I’d love to see you there.
We’ll be diving into fiction in all its glorious forms throughout the year. What are you drawn to? What are you interested in writing? Short stories, flash fiction, sudden fiction, novels for adults, novels for children, less-definable fiction forms and structures: we are open to all of it. I’ve always loved to experiment in my fiction writing and you should feel free to do the same.
The advantages of a multi-genre fiction workshop are many: reading and thinking deeply about fiction in a genre adjacent but unfamiliar to your own work can expand our creativity and positively influence our own writing. Throughout the year, you may be drawn to and want to experiment with various forms of fiction, and we welcome that as well. If you want to draft an entire book in the course of the year, you’ll be able to. If you want to play around and see where your inner spark takes you, you can do that too. No matter your focus, this will be an exhilarating, intensive, fun year together.
The first of two info sessions is tomorrow, Wednesday, May 1, from 4-5:30 Central time. Here’s the link if you’d like to sign up. OR, feel free just to email me with any questions.
Note that our workshop is strictly limited to twelve and will most likely be smaller. We’ll meet for thirty three-hour meetings and six shorter individual consultations, so you’ll receive lots of individual attention. The workshop is pricey, but the Loft does offer one almost-full scholarship. I’ve been teaching creative writing my entire life —it’s a vocation second only to writing to me—and my only goal as a teacher is to be useful to you and nurture your inherent creative spark. Click here for lots more information, and feel free to email me with any questions.