Mondays, May 3 – 24 (4 weeks)
8 – 9:30 p.m. EST | Online via Google Meet  |  Regístrese para recibir el enlace

There are decisions we make (about entry point, tone, point of view, conflict, stakes, and more) in our opening pages that set us up for stories that practically write themselves, or for ones that are bound to run quickly out of steam.

In this four-week class, we will examine and edit student work (on a volunteer basis) in class, helping bring the potential in each piece to the fore as early as possible. We will also study some masterful published first pages to see what works, and we’ll geek out about arc, momentum, and language, winding up with concrete takeaways, writing exercises, and strategies for revision.

This class is appropriate for anyone writing creative prose (fiction or nonfiction), and for students of all levels and backgrounds.

Rebecca Makkai’s latest novel, The Great Believers, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award; it was the winner of the ALA Carnegie Medal, the Stonewall Book Award, the LA Times Book Prize, the Clark Fiction Prize, the Midwest Independent Booksellers Award, and the Chicago Review of Books Award; and it was one of the New York Times’ Ten Best Books of 2018. Her other books are the novels The Borrower y The Hundred-Year House, and the collection Music for Wartime — four stories from which appeared in The Best American Short Stories. Rebecca is on the MFA faculties of Sierra Nevada College and Northwestern University. She is Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago. Visit her at RebeccaMakkai.com or on twitter@rebeccamakkai.

Becas disponibles para estudiantes del MDC

La Feria del Libro de Miami ofrece dos (2) becas de matrícula completa para estudiantes del MDC interesados en asistir a los talleres de escritura creativa mencionados anteriormente. Los solicitantes deben ser estudiantes actualmente matriculados (tiempo completo o parcial) del Miami Dade College que busquen obtener un título y que demuestren necesidad financiera.

Para solicitar una beca:

Scholarship application due 3 business days before workshop starts (Due Tuesday, April 27, 11:59 p.m. EST)

Por favor, envía un correo electrónico a Marci Cancio-Bello, coordinadora de programas de la Miami Book Fair en [email protected] antes de que comience el taller al que te gustaría asistir. El mensaje debe incluir tu información de contacto, el título del taller al que te gustaría asistir, una breve declaración de necesidad financiera, tu horario de clases en MDC y una muestra de escritura. Las personas que escriben por primera vez y no tienen una muestra de escritura deben entregar una declaración explicando su interés en el taller.