Saturday – Sunday, October 7 – October 8 (2 days) | 12 – 5 p.m.  

In an advanced spin-off to her acclaimed course, “Finish Your Novel the TV Way,” Anjanette Delgado has put together a bootcamp course about the unsung heroes of getting our work finished: formats, genres, and storytelling devices. How many times have you struggled with your novel, only to realize it wants to be a lyric essay? Or with a short story, only to realize it should be a novel after months of struggling with word count? And what about devices that go beyond letters, diary entries, and recipes? How could those help you find the shape your story is meant to have? Finding the shape is important. It saves time and struggle, and is often capable of reenergizing work we had left for dead. It requires familiarity with the most original examples of the literary written word and a creative mind shift, sometimes as difficult as crafting the actual content of our stories. This is a bootcamp course in 10 hours over one weekend, 12-5pm on Saturday and Sunday. It is advanced in nature and students should have writing experience, and an idea of the book or piece they want to shape in order to get the most out of this course.

Anjanette Delgado es una novelista, conferencista y periodista galardonada, fascinada por el desamor, las diferentes formas en que ocurre y las consecuencias que trae. Su primera novela, La píldora del desamor (Atria Books, 2008)) contó la historia de una latina moderna envuelta en una batalla entre su cerebro y su corazón. Su última obra, La Clarividente de Calle Ocho, la historia transcurre en la vibrante Pequeña Habana y sigue a Mariela Estévez, una mujer cuya decisión de renunciar a su verdadera vocación le cuesta dos matrimonios fallidos, un roce con el asesinato y muchas desilusiones. Clarividente fue finalista de Indiefab como Mejor Libro Multicultural del Año 2014. Ambas novelas han sido opcionadas para cine y televisión. Anjanette tiene un MFA en Escritura Creativa de la Florida International University, fue colaboradora de la Bread Loaf Writers Conference en Vermont y será la Peter Taylor Fellow 2017 en el Kenyon Review Writer’s Workshop el próximo verano. En 2015, se desempeñó como jurado del Flannery O’Connor Short Fiction Award. Vive en Miami y enseña ficción en Miami Book Fair en Miami Dade College.