A 1-Day Fiction Workshop
Wednesday, February 4, 6 - 9 PM
A beginning is a howl in an empty room, an ending its echo. A stunning beginning might render us gobsmacked or intrigued. The right ending provides closure or lives on in us long after the story is through. Beginnings and endings are often treated as discrete aspects of craft, but when brought together they can deepen our understanding of what a story means and how we understand a character’s wound or desires.
In this workshop we’ll excavate the beginnings and endings of short stories and novels to study what makes them move us. We’ll also workshop our own beginnings and endings, specifically how they function on a line level, a scene level, and thematically. To make this workshop most impactful, please bring the opening and closing pages of your story or chapter.
$90 Members/$120 Nonmembers
Cherline Bazile is a Haitian American fiction writer from Florida. She graduated cum laude from Harvard University, where she studied English. Cherline was an Artist Fellow at Harvard’s Office of Fine Arts, a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow, a Thouron Prize recipient, and a Hoopes Prize recipient. Cherline attended the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, where she received her MFA in Fiction. At HZWP, Cherline won three Hopwood awards and was a 2019 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow. Her fiction has been featured in NPR, The Sewanee Review, Symphony Space Theater, and the Best American Short Stories 2023. Cherline has attended workshops & residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, NY State Summer Writers Institute, and Tin House Summer Workshop. She is based in Philadelphia, PA.
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SCHOLARSHIP
The MWPA is proud to offer one partial scholarship to this workshop for members-only. Scholarships are awarded on a combination of need and merit. Application Due two weeks prior to the workshop start date, at 9:00 a.m.
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