Summer Programs
Beginning Fiction: Getting Your Sea Legs
Instructor: Gina Welch
Time: Tuesdays, June 24-August 12, 6-8:30pm
Location: 508 Dale Ave., Charlottesville, Va.
Fee: $210
This course will cover the basics of writing short fiction. We will look at published stories and essays to explore how manipulations of conflict, plot, character, and voice give a writer control. Students will write short exercises and at least one story, which will be submitted to class for peer workshop. Assigned writers will include Edward P. Jones, Deborah Eisenberg, George Saunders, and Amy Hempel.
Summer Fiction Workshop: Deepening and Refining Our Fiction
Instructor: Hilary Jerrill Steinitz
Time: Monday evenings, June 23-August 11, 6-8:30pm
Location: 508 Dale Ave., Charlottesville, Va.
Fee: $200
A writing workshop is a community of sorts, one built on trust, respect, sensitivity, and honesty. In this class, designed for people with previous writing and workshop experience, we will focus on reading one another’s fiction with precision and an eye toward constructive feedback. Student work as well as readings of short published works will provide a springboard for discussions of the elements of literary craft; writing exercises will help us to access the imaginative material from which our work grows. Topics of discussion may include: overcoming obstacles to our writing, revising creatively, and preparing our work for publication.
Registration is now open — download the registration form and mail it in today!
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