WS171 Intensive Fiction-Writing Workshop

Advanced Intensive Fiction Workshop

Description

This fiction workshop (meeting weekly via Zoom) is designed to help you make significant progress on a project you’re already working on and raise your craft to the next level. Whether you’re writing short stories or are knee-deep in a novel, you’ll have ample opportunity to workshop your writing and troubleshoot obstacles. We will supplement your works-in-progress with published pieces of fiction carefully selected based on the specific genres and craft issues you are grappling with, analyzing the ways other authors have tackled those challenges themselves.

In a supportive, generous, intellectually curious, and motivating atmosphere, we’ll dive into stories aiming to understand how they work, and what they’re trying to achieve.

When this course has been offered in the past, students made significant progress toward their personal writing goals and left with extensive, actionable feedback in hand to keep them moving forward on their own.

Instructor

Based in Paris, Noah Weisz has over a decade of experience teaching creative writing at a wide variety of institutions, including Sciences Po and CEA CAPA. His accolades include winning the F(r)iction Short Story Contest, the Katherine Paterson Prize, and the Sydney Taylor Manuscript Award. His short stories for children, teens, and adults have been widely published in literary magazines. He has an M.F.A. in Fiction from the University of Texas at Austin.           noahweisz.wordpress.com