Short Story: Beginning, Middle & End
Description: Writing a short story in six weeks isn’t out of the question. Especially when you can come to a condensed seminar focused solely on getting that first completed draft.
The first sessions focus on Beginnings, including exercises and discussion and writing time.
Then you’re on to Middles, where discussion and prompts will propel you forward.
And for the last sessions, you guessed it! Endings.
The last week will be a time for students to bring up challenges for a group solution. Great for those with a block or who are too good at procrastination.
NOTE: This is not a full workshop course. If you’re really looking for a course with facilitated workshopping to get feedback on drafts you’ve written, take a look at Fiction II or the Advanced Writers Workshop.
Who should attend: Writers of all levels who wish to write in the short story form.
About the Instructor: Melanie Pappadis received her MFA in Creative Writing from The New School. Her novel Searching Ana won The New School’s Fiction Chapbook Competition and was a finalist in Sarabande Books’ Mary McCarthy Prize in Fiction. Her fiction was a top 25 winner in Glimmer Train’s Very Short Fiction Contest and was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has published a book of non-fiction based on her field research in Nepal, Limbu Folklore, a collection of translated oral folklore and photographs. She currently lives and teaches in Chicago where she curates the New York based reading series Sunday Salon Chicago. She is working on her second novel.Date/Time: Tuesdays, January 20 to February 24; 6:30pm to 9pm
Price: Non-member: $295: / Member: $280