WA301 Writing the Short Story

Course description:

This on-line workshop is designed to help you investigate what lies behind the scenes in a short story and then apply that knowledge to your own writing to create entertaining, compelling, and profound stories of your own—whatever your preferred genre and your background in writing may be.  With stories by celebrated authors as different as Flannery O’Connor, Atsushi Nakajima, Kelly Link, and Bharati Mukherjee, we’ll delve into the principles of structure, characterization, plotting, voice, description, and more.  

By the end of the course, you’ll have written and received supportive class and instructor feedback on several writing exercises and one full-length short story.

NOTE: For non-WICE members who wish to register and attend, please use code OG2KL31Q.  

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 and the Sydney Taylor Manuscript Award, his short stories have been widely published in literary magazines. Based in Paris, he currently teaches creative writing to undergraduates at Sciences Po as well as to American study-abroad students through CEA CAPA. You can find him at https://noahweisz.wordpress.com.