Advanced Fiction Workshop
This monthly workshop is currently full and will open again in January. Please contact us for more information.
Have a story or novel ready to share with a welcoming audience? Struggling with a piece and needing some direction?
StoryStudio offers this ongoing workshop for intermediate and advanced writers who need clear and structured critiques to improve their work. Facilitated by Jill Pollack, each session focuses on workshopping student manuscripts to highlight what’s working and where the opportunities are to delve deeper. Specific comments will be offered for writers at early or later stages of developing short stories or a novel.
The group will also respond to essays on the creative process and learn from other artists in other fields. And of course, we’ll talk about storytelling elements such as voice, character, narrative arc and more.
We’ll meet once a month, leaving writers lots of time to read and write. Each three-hour session will include time to discuss the creative process, workshop manuscripts, and share a light meal together.
Each student will be expected to read manuscript drafts to be workshopped and prepare comprehensive comments. Students will also receive detailed, page by page comments from the instructor.
This course is limited to 10 students. Participants should have previous workshop experience and be prepared to submit up to 40 pages for workshopping.
Writer’s Roadmap
This course is designed for those with experience writing and exposing their work in a writing workshop environment. To assure that workshop students are in the class that will be most beneficial to them, we ask that prospective students contact us to send in up to 10 pages of a working draft. StoryStudio will then contact you to determine if the Advanced Fiction Workshop, or a different Workshop class, would be the best fit.
Please email or call us to see if this workshop is right for you: info@storystudiochicago.com or 773.477.7710.
About the Instructor: Jill Pollack is the founder and director of StoryStudio Chicago. Since founding the studio in 2003, Jill has focused her attention on teaching both fiction and creative non-fiction courses, and providing a wide variety of experiences in writing and publishing for StoryStudio writers. She is the author of three books for young adults: Shirley Chisholm, named a Best Book by Science and Film Magazine; Lesbian and Gay Families: Redefining Parenting in America; and Women on the Hill, a history of women in Congress. Jill also leads the Chicago Literary Alliance to connect our city’s great literary organizations. She was recently named #23 in the Newcity Lit Top 50 list of literary leaders in Chicago.