Course Description:
This three-hour workshop uses the five senses to ground readers and bring your characters alive. Are you suffering from Brain-in-a-Vat syndrome? This is where your characters speak to each other, but we don't know where they are in space, what they look like, how they're moving nor what's around them. Often encountered in first drafts, these symptoms are by all means curable! In this workshop, we'll look at successful examples drawn from contemporary literature and try our own hand at rendering sensory experience on the page.
Instructor:
Anna Polony is an American-French-Hungarian writer and journalist based in Nantes. She teaches at the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio and is co-founder of the Nantes Writers’ Workshop. She has an M.F.A. in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and a B.A. in history and literature from Harvard University. Wayword, a chapbook of poems, was published by Finishing Line Press (US) in 2017 and her reporting has appeared in the International New York Times, Radio France Internationale, Agence France Presse, The Irish Times, and Foreign Policy among others. Her writing has been supported by Manchester UNESCO City of Literature, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and a Fulbright for Young American Journalists. She won the Sylvia Beach Short Fiction Prize, awarded by Paris Lit Up magazine.
