Four Tuesdays: February 28, March 7, 14, 21 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET Online
Sold out Please email classes@politics-prose.com for the wait list. Write a short story in a month! In this hands-on workshop, we’ll walk through all of the building blocks to compose, edit, and workshop an short story. We’ll start each class with a close-reading of an excellent classic to identify techniques every writer can use, then we’ll create and develop our own stories through in-class exercises. Throughout the month, we will play with tools for breaking through writing blocks, and we’ll experiment with genre, tense, character, and point of view to get out of any ruts or expectations we may have about what a story “should be.” The class will be fun and appropriate for both first-time and experienced fiction writers — and we also welcome memoirists, essayists, and others looking for a creative and fun way to learn new tools. Participants will leave the class with a complete short story and new ways of looking at writing.
Four Tuesdays: February 28, March 7, 14, 21 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET Online
Recommended Reading:
Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction by Matthew Salesses (9781948226806)
Kate Reed Petty's first novel, "True Story," was a New York Times Editors' Choice selection and a finalist for a Shirley Jackson Award and a Bram Stoker Award. Her fiction, essays, and short films have appeared in ZYZZYVA, Electric Literature, American Short Fiction, and Narrative, among other places. She teaches creative writing in the Design for Social Innovation MFA program at the School of Visual Arts, and lives in Baltimore.
REFUND POLICY: Please note that we can issue class refunds up until seven (7) days before the first class session.
