Expand your imagination while strengthening your writing craft skills? Think about the structure of stories and still feel liberated enough to keep that internal editor at bay? Sound impossible?

In Writing with Intention, that’s exactly what you’ll do.

The elements of writing craft will play a leading role in this class. Image, setting, story development, voice, and character will be center stage as we explore these elements as the foundation of any story. Writing prompts will help you become more comfortable with the building blocks of fiction and feel excited about experimenting with your stories. During the course, you’ll generate new pages with an eye towards completing a short piece of fiction.

Students will leave Writing with Intention with an excellent grasp of major craft elements and 10-15 pages of new writing.

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Who Should Attend:

Adults, 18 and over
Intermediate writers

Eugene Cross’s stories have appeared in American Short Fiction, Narrative Magazine, Story Quarterly, Guernica, Callaloo, and The Pinch among others. His work has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize as well as being shortlisted in The Best American Short Stories 2010. He earned his MFA in fiction from the University of Pittsburgh and was the winner of the 2009 DZANC Prize for Excellence in Literary Fiction and Community Service. Prior to moving to Chicago he taught creative writing for five years at Penn State University. He has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Chautauqua Writers’ Festival. His first collection of short stories, Fires of Our Choosing, is forthcoming in February 2012 from DZANC Books.