In this writing class you’ll act as writers reading model short stories that explore: the way conflict happens despite our best efforts with Anton Chekhov and Edward P. Jones; how writers can use forms such as the parable with Franz Kafka; the power of atmosphere with Eudora Welty and James Baldwin; and the best way to take influence with Guy de Maupassant and Frank O’Connor’s “A Story by Maupassant.” In each of our four classes, you’ll identify and implement concrete techniques, devices, and strategies for your own writing. In each class, you’ll employ these techniques, devices, and strategies in order to produce multiple pieces of good writing that can easily become complete drafts. In taking from features of other writers’ craft, this class will help to highlight the unique details, passages, and voice in your own story that makes it so very much yours.
Enrollment is limited to 15 students.
Class meets online on Mondays: March 3, 10, 17, and 24 from 6:30-9 pm.
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Ian Ross Singleton is a writer of fiction. He is also a translator of literature from the Russian and Ukrainian languages, and he often writes criticism of American and Eastern European literature, often of literature in translation. He teaches Writing and Critical Inquiry and Creative Writing at SUNY Albany and serves as the Nonfiction Editor of Asymptote. His debut novel Two Big Differences, about the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity, came out in 2021, and is currently being translated into Russian for the Ukrainian press Freedom Letters. In 2024, he took part in the Tran ...
Ian Ross Singleton is a writer of fiction. He is also a translator of literature from the Russian and Ukrainian languages, and he often writes criticism of American and Eastern European literature, often of literature in translation. He teaches Writing and Critical Inquiry and Creative Writing at SUNY Albany and serves as the Nonfiction Editor of Asymptote. His debut novel Two Big Differences, about the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity, came out in 2021, and is currently being translated into Russian for the Ukrainian press Freedom Letters. In 2024, he took part in the Translating Ukraine Summer Institute in Wroclaw, Poland.
Short Story Writing with Ian Ross Singleton
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