Course Description:
This weekly fiction workshop (short or long fiction) includes craft conversation on topics such as dialogue, story structure, character development, pacing and plot based on current best practices in creative writing pedagogy. 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:
** Admission by application: Send five double-spaced pages of your best prose to: creativewriting@wice-paris.org **
This course is open to nonmember participants at a slightly higher cost, but a 3-month WICE membership is included.
Registration is open.
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.
