A 5-Week Fiction Workshop
Tuesdays, January 26 - February 23, 6-9 PM
This course aims to give writers a strong, grounded understanding of short story structure and to guide them in applying those structural elements in their own creative work. We will begin by discussing the arc as the traditional shape of a story, focusing on the purpose behind each element (exposition, rising action, climax, denouement.) Then, we will pivot to alternative structures (the collage, the spiral, and others) and look at the ways that stories find shape based on content. Short informative lectures will be supplemented with readings from Jhumpa Lahiri, Sarah Braunstein, Callan Wink, and others. Participants will have the option to share a new or revised short story draft for peer and instructor feedback.
$275 Members/$355 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
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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