A 5-Week Online Fiction Workshop
Thursdays, March 12 - April 9, 6 - 8:30 PM
Time in fiction is tricky to get right. We are often restricted to a certain set of pages, and yet novels can span decades. In other moments, a scene or story might take place over a single night or day. How can a writer appropriately handle time in these instances? And how can he/she craft work that seamlessly travels between one scene or flashback and another?
Using The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long As It Takes (Graywolf Press) as our guide, we will look at flashforwards and flashbacks; pacing; scene breaks; and movement between scenes. We will study excerpts from Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife, exploring her brilliant use of time in fiction. We’ll also workshop our own pieces, paying particular attention to how time is handled in each writer’s submission.
$275 Members/$475 Nonmembers
Megan Turner is a graduate of the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her work has appeared in Witness, Atticus Review, Rio Grande Review, Fiction International, and others. Originally from Baltimore, Megan grew up in Harrogate, England, and Columbia, Maryland. She now lives in Brunswick, Maine. Visit her at: www.MeganRTurner.com.
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