Course Overview:
This class will offer writers (preferably those who have taken the Introduction to Fiction Writing Course with the same instructor) to continue revising their short stories and novel manuscripts while getting constructive feedback and response from peers. This course will focus on reading works of accomplished writers and decipher how they construct meaning and themes in their fiction and resonate with a universal audience (without any pandering). We will also be paying attention to the already-studied elements of fiction (characters, plot, setting/world building, point of view, voice, structure and dialogue) and learn how to maneuver them differently in different fiction pieces. We will discuss how to provide productive feedback, revise work in an objective fashion (develop revision strategies), and how and where to send work after polishing (top literary magazines, agents, MFA programs and writers' residencies).
Writing is a serious endeavor. It is a solitary craft which needs time, discipline, life-long commitment and support in the form of first-readers who help in the early process of revision. This is where fiction peers and workshop become important. Workshopping fiction pieces is the main agenda for this short course. Students who have already learned the way fiction workshops operate through the Introduction to Fiction Writing Course will get another chance to showcase their work and receive response.
Learning Outcomes:
- learn to study short stories and novels.
- learn to examine works and craft talks of various distinguished writers.
- learn how to provide and receive criticism from peers on your individual short stories.
- learn to send your work to literary journals, agents and publishers.
Her debut novel, 'Ashes, Wine and Dust' was shortlisted for the Tibor Jones South Asia Prize and is still currently a national bestseller in South Asia. Her short stories have been published in American Literary Review, The Punch Magazine, Salamander, Greensboro Review and The Malahat Review. She won the Reynolds Price Prize for Fiction (Center for Women Writers, Salem College), and has been a finalist for the 51st New Millennium Writing Award, Salamander Short Fiction Award and the Robert Watson Literary Prize.
Most recently, her second book, a collection of short-stories, What Remains After a Fire, has been shortlisted for the 2022 Literary Awards, by the Sante Fe Writer's Prize.
She is represented by United Talent Agency and C & W (The Curtis Brown Group UK).
Course Fee: TBA
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