Meets Monthly. This workshop will accept new students for the second half of 2012. Please email or call us to learn how to submit your work: info@storystudiochicago.com or 773.477.7710.

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 Baird Harper, 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. 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.

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About the Instructor: Baird Harper’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Tin House, Mid-American Review, CutBank, Best New American Voices 2009 and 2010, and The Chicago Tribune. His stories have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and have won the 2009 James Jones Award and the 2010 Nelson Algren Award. He holds an MA in English from the University of Montana and an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Date/Time: Meets Monthly, January 17, February 21, March 20, April 17, May 15, June 19, July 17, August 21, September 18, October 16, November 20, December 18
Sessions run 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Sessions: 12
Location: Chicago, 4043 N. Ravenswood #222

Course Fee: Full-year 12 sessions (recommended): Non-Member: $750; Member: $730. Includes course packet and instructor reviews. (A half-year six session option is also available.)

This monthly workshop is submission based. Please contact us for instructions on how to submit your work.