A 1-Day Fiction Workshop
Thursday, July 23, 6-9 PM
Suspense is often deemed the purview of genre fiction -- thrillers, mysteries, horror. But all fiction, even the most literary, uses some suspense engine to keep the reader turning the pages. How do "literary" writers create suspense in their work? How do we keep the readers hooked to the next page? This seminar will provide a list of helpful techniques to create suspense in all of your fiction, with examples from Roberto Bolaño, Antoine Wilson, Benjamín Labatut, and others. Participants will come away with implementable strategies and techniques for their own writing.
$60 Members/$85 Nonmembers
Courtney Sender is the author of the linked story collection In Other Lifetimes All I've Lost Comes Back to Me (WVU Press 2023), called "fierce" by Alice McDermott and "miraculous" by Ann Patchett. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Slate, and her fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, AGNI, American Short Fiction, and many others. She runs The Craft Lab for Writers online guided writing group, newsletter, and podcast.
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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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