Two-part Intensive Writing Clinic
Alicia Oltuski
Book:
Natasha, David Bezmozgis
Two Tuesdays, June 19 and 26, 1-3 p.m.
Price: $70 ($60 members)
This is the perfect class for writers of all levels to work out a particular challenge they’ve been facing in a project—whether they have an idea but are stuck on how to launch, have come up against a difficult plot point in a novel or story, or are struggling with how to structure an essay they’ve written.
Participants have the option of bringing in a short excerpt of their work, which the instructor and class will review with the specific goal of providing workable solutions and advice.
Texts will be referenced as models.
Open to fiction and nonfiction writers of all levels.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Alicia Oltuski’s first book, Precious Objects, was published as a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming on NPR’s Berlin Stories, in the Financial Times, W magazine, The Penn Review, Peregrine, The Faster Times, Prairie Margins, The Bulletin in Philadelphia, and other publications. She holds an MFA from Columbia University, where she received a David Berg Foundation Fellowship, has taught writing at the University of the Arts, and was a reader at The Paris Review. Interviews with her have appeared on Marketplace, Ireland’s Newstalk Radio, The Mariah Briggs Show, and Vox Tablet, in addition to several newspapers.
