Advanced Fiction Workshop
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 who are at the early stages of developing short stories or a novel, as well as those who are further along in their drafts and ready to revise.
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 every other week, leaving writers lots of time to, well, write.
This course is limited to 12 students. Participants should have up to 25 pages of a manuscript to workshop and previous workshop experience.
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 Craft or 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 a Chicago-based writer and editor whose work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, trade periodicals, and political journals. 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. She is the founder of StoryStudio Chicago.
Date/Time: Alternating Wednesdays, September 15 through December 15; 6:30-9:00pm
Note: This course meets on the following dates: 9/15, 9/22, 10/6, 10/20, 11/3, 11/17, 12/1, and 12/15.
Price: Non-Member: $380; Member: $360. Includes course packet and instructor reviews.
Please email or call us to see if this workshop is right for you: info@storystudiochicago.com or 773.477.7710.