Overview

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: April 28, May 5, 12, and 19 from 6:30-9 pm.