Fiction Workshop

This 8 week writing series will consist primarily of workshopping short story and novel drafts. Each participant will have two opportunities to submit their work for peer review, one of which may (but does not have to) be a revision. In addition, we will use writing exercises and published short stories as launching points for generating new material and discussing all aspects of fictional craft. Writers in this class can expect in-class writing, assigned readings, discussion, and feedback from your peers and instructor. While there will be written feedback, we will be focusing our critique energies on a robust in-class discussion. Limited to 12 students.

About the teachers:

Vanessa Brewster is a writer, musician and teacher living in Greenfield. She is a candidate in the Bennington MFA program for fiction, and has a Masters degree in Spanish Literature from Middlebury College. Her work is published with Monkeybicycle and she is the cofounder and editor of Looky Here Magazine.

Kel Warren is a writer from New England. Her short stories have appeared in Tilted House Review, Roi Fainéant, and elsewhere. Her writing has received support from the International Literary Seminar and the Juniper Writing Institute. Kel is a Frances Perkins Scholar at Mount Holyoke College, prose editor of The Mount Holyoke Review, and founder of SARDINES Press.