Prose Workshop: Write Your Book
Week 6 | Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall Prose Room | Ages 18+
This generative workshop is for anyone interested in writing a novel, memoir, or short story collection, whether you’re several drafts to the wind or just setting sail. Learn ways to grab a reader’s attention with your first sentence, frame a narrative, craft a unique voice, and bring the past into the present. We will take it from the heart—what is the story you are yearning to tell?—to the desk—how on earth does someone write an entire book? Make progress in a week and leave with plans for the next word, sentence, and chapter! Generative. (ages 18+)
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Mary Kay Zuravleff is the award-wining author of American Ending, which weaves Russian fairy tales and fables into a family saga set in the coal mines of Appalachia. Her third novel, Man Alive!, was named a Washington Post Notable Book, and her essays and short stories have appeared in American Short Fiction, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Atlantic, and numerous anthologies. She received the American Academy’s Rosenthal Award, the James Jones Novel Award, and Artist Fellowships from the DC Commission on the Arts. She has written extensively for the Smithsonian and has taught writing just about everywhere. More information is at AmericanEnding.net.
