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• WF041 Writing the Short StoryII (Advanced Workshop)

  • Start
    04 Feb 2025
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  • End
    01 Apr 2025
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  • Schedule
    8 sessions
  • Location
    Remote on Zoom
  • Spaces left
    10

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  WRITING THE SHORT STORY II

            (Advanced Workshop)

  DESCRIPTION

  This eight-week online workshop goes beyond the basic elements of short story craft to investigate some of the subtler dimensions of fiction writing.  How do we know what to put in and what to leave out?  How do we invest small moments with meaning?  What makes a story glow with insight rather than sag with a message?  With the help of readings from masters such as Edith Pearlman, Lorrie Moore, Edward P. Jones, and Clarice Lispector, we’ll explore the ways a short story becomes a potent medium for evoking emotion and dramatizing complex human questions. 
  

  By the time the course is over, you’ll have received supportive peer and instructor feedback on several small writing exercises and one full-length short story.  We will also discuss the process of submitting short stories for publication in literary magazines.

  
  

  YOUR INSTRUCTOR

  

  Noah Weisz has an M.F.A. in Fiction from the University of Texas at Austin and over a decade of experience teaching creative writing. A past winner of 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. Based in Paris, he regularly teaches creative writing to undergraduates at Sciences Po as well as to American study-abroad students through CEA CAPA.

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• WF2201 LET'S PLAY

  • When
    22 Feb 2025
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    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Address will be sent a few days prior
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    9

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  LET'S PLAY     

  Do you write plays? Or have you thought about writing one?

  Or maybe you want to make your fiction dialogue more emotional,  immediate, or dramatic?

  Then this mini-plunge into playwriting is for you.   In this 3-hour workshop, you will:

  • cover the basic principles of playwriting
  • put those principles to use on your own piece 
  • share your results (if you wish)

  In particular, you’ll learn how to harness conflict and suspense in order to more deeply engage your readers/audience. You might even pick up a new trick or two.

  And for those of you who write prose, these playwriting techniques can help make your fictional dialogue more immediate and emotional.

  It will be a fun and supportive room, whether you have experience in theatrical writing or not. You’ll emerge with new or sharpened arrows in your writers’ quiver - perhaps even an unexpected dream for your vision board.

  This course is also open to nonmember participants at a slightly higher cost, but a 3-month WICE membership is included.

  Instructor:

  Beth Blatt’s award-winning plays, musicals and songs have been performed at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the UN, in New York City, across the US, Asia and Europe. Most recently, she was an artist-in-residence at the Château de La Napoule, for which she created an immersive play with music inspired by its artist-owners. She is also the founder of Hope Sings, which creates original songs inspired by success stories from charities that support women. Projects include the Anthem for UN Women.

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• WA011 Small Moments, Epic Tales: The Art of Growing Essays into Memoirs

  • Start
    01 Apr 2025
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  • End
    03 Jun 2025
  • Schedule
    10 sessions
  • Location
    ZOOM
  • Spaces left
    12

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  SMALL MOMENTS, EPIC TALES: The Art of Growing Essays into Memoirs

  Course Description:
  

  Join a supportive community of international writers to learn how to transform your personal essays into compelling book-length memoirs.

  In this intimate ten-week workshop, explore how small moments can blossom into powerful, full-length works by examining the way celebrated authors have successfully expanded their essays into memorable memoirs.

  Also, using practical tools such as close reading, discussion, and workshopping your own work, learn to identify the universal themes in your personal narratives and develop them into longer works.

  Administrative Notes:

  This course is also open to nonmember participants at a slightly higher cost, but a 3-month WICE membership is included.

  This class is on ZOOM.

  About the Instructor: 

  With degrees in journalism and creative writing, Jennifer Lauck is the New York Times and London Times bestselling writer of the memoirs Blackbird, Still Waters, Found and The Summer of ’72.

  She has also published a series of interlocking essays in the collection titled Show Me the Way and has had essays published in several anthology collections, including Knitting Yarns. She teaches creative writing in the US and abroad.

  
  

  • https://blackbirdstudiopdx.com/
  • https://jenniferlauck.substack.com/

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• WO4091 Fiction Workshop II

  • Start
    09 Apr 2025
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  • End
    28 May 2025
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  • Schedule
    8 sessions
  • Location
    Address will be sent a few days before the first class
  • Spaces left
    9

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  FICTION WORKSHOP II

  Course Description:

  This popular weekly fiction workshop (short or long fiction) is returning! It includes craft conversation on topics such as dialogue, story structure, character development, pacing and plot based on current best practices in creative writing.

  Over the course of eight sessions, you will workshop two of your own pieces (either novel chapters or short stories) for supportive and rigorous group feedback.
  

  Administrative Notes:

  ** This class is for experienced writers and admission is by application: Send five double-spaced pages of your best prose to: creativewriting@wice-paris.org **

  This course is also open to nonmember participants at a slightly higher cost, but a 3-month WICE membership is included.

  
  

  About the Instructor: 

  Shannon Cain is the author of The Necessity of Certain Behaviors, winner of the 2001 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Her stories have been recognized by the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts, the O. Henry Prize, and the Pushcart Prize. Founder of La Maison Baldwin, a residency program for Black writers, she has taught creative writing at the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, and in the MFA program at Bennington College.

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