A 3-Week Online Fiction Workshop
Thursdays, March 26 - April 23, 6-9 PM
Most writers know the importance of revision, yet too often it feels like going over the same sentence to no effect. In this 5-week online course, we will discuss a creative approach to revision which takes into account the stage of the process the writers find themselves in. In Week 1, participants will share work-in-progress (a short story or a novel chapter up to 3,500 words) and outline the needs of the draft. Targeted lectures in the following weeks will explore finding structure in revision, revising with focus on characters, and line edits that make the language and the dialog shine. The course will draw on several key texts, such as Susan Bell’s The Artful Edit and Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Browne & King, as well as the instructor’s extensive experience as a fiction editor. Participants will revise the original submission to be workshopped in the final week, for small group and instructor feedback.
$180 Members/$300 Nonmembers
Evgeniya Dame grew up in Samara, Russia and currently lives in Maine. She is a Fulbright Scholar, a graduate of the MFA program at the University of New Hampshire, and a 2020-2022 Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford Creative Writing Program. Her fiction appears in Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Southern Review, SUBTROPICS, and Joyland. Her non-fiction and interviews have appeared in Electric Literature and New England Review online. She edits fiction for Joyland Magazine and contributes reviews for KIRKUS. She is currently teaching in the Stanford Continuing Studies Program.
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SCHOLARSHIP
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