Mondays, May 3 – 24 (4 weeks)
8 – 9:30 p.m. EST | Online via Google Meet  |  Register to receive link

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 epi 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.

Bous Etid Disponib pou Etidyan MDC

Fwa Liv Miami ap ofri de (2) bous etid konplè pou etidyan MDC ki enterese patisipe nan atelye ekriti kreyatif ki mansyone pi wo a. Kandida yo dwe etidyan ki enskri kounye a (a plen tan oswa a tan pasyèl) nan Miami Dade College, k ap pouswiv yon diplòm, e ki demontre yon bezwen finansye.

Pou aplike pou yon bous detid:

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

Tanpri voye yon imèl bay Marci Cancio-Bello, kowòdonatè pwogram Fwa Liv Miami a nan [email protected] Anvan kòmansman atelye ou ta renmen patisipe ladan l. Mesaj la dwe gen ladan enfòmasyon kontak ou, tit atelye ou ta renmen pran an, yon deklarasyon kout sou bezwen finansye ou, orè klas MDC ou, ak yon echantiyon ekriti. Moun k ap ekri pou premye fwa ki pa gen yon echantiyon ekriti ta dwe soumèt yon deklarasyon ki esplike enterè yo nan atelye a.