How To Make Stuff Up: Intro to Fiction

VIRTUAL VIA ZOOM 6 Tuesdays

Come make stuff up with novelist and Easthampton, MA Poet Laureate Carolyn Zaikowski. Whether you’re just getting started or you’d like to get re-started in your fiction writing, you are welcome here.

We’ll get curious about key concepts in fiction storytelling, including the art of narrative, character, setting, and voice. Each week, we’ll do some craft study and spend time writing together with in-class generation exercises. We’ll chat about our work and ideas in small and large groups in the spirit of empowerment, encouragement, and solidarity, all toward the goal of finding our own voices and visions.

Each student will have the opportunity for formal verbal feedback from the group on up to 1000 words on a draft (or a section of a longer work), and to participate in a class literary reading during the final week.

Zoom links and assignments for the first class will be sent out a week before the class begins.

Find more about Carolyn here.

Carolyn Zaikowski, Author & Poet Laureate of Easthampton, MA
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