Prose Workshop: The Redux Fairytale
Week 4 | July 18–22 | Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall Prose Room | Ages: 18+
To create a new story is to remake an old story new. In that essence, this generative fiction workshop will renovate, refurbish, modernize, remodel, and possibly upgrade the old fairytales (such as Cinderella, Hansel & Gretel, Snow White, Beauty and the Beast, etc) into their potential timeless 21st century, with a new set of literary wardrobe and boundary, vernacular attires, and coeval, technological conditions, and circumstances. The rewrite will alter the fiction writers’ motivation from originality to novelty, fashioning a mythological universe that defies traditional approaches to storytelling, paving a daring path towards emblematic compulsions. Writers will unexpectedly, through the compelling practice of playfulness and lightheartedness, form their adaptable narration into a labor of fiction that invites authentically impulsive exploration and an intensely invigorating engagement for their readers.
Generative. The primary class focus is on in-class craft analysis and discussion, in-class exercises, and optional take-home prompts; ideal for writers looking for new ways to invigorate their writing practice throughout the entire year; useful to writers at all levels. (Ages 18+)
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Vi Khi Nao
VI KHI NAO is the author of six poetry collections & of the short stories collection, A Brief Alphabet of Torture (winner of the 2016 FC2's Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize), the novel, Fish in Exile (Coffee House Press, 2016). Her work includes poetry, fiction, film and cross-genre collaboration. Her first play, Waiting for God, is out of Apocalypse Party in January 2022. She was the Fall 2019 fellow at the Black Mountain Institute.
For more information: https://www.vikhinao.com
