This will be a generative workshop focusing particularly on how the real and the fictional rub up against each other in the big metaphorical pot of soup that is your lived experience, and how writing the details of the physical world all the way down to the bone will activate your reader’s senses and encourage the emotional truths you have to tell to distill up out of that morass like fine Kentucky Bourbon. (And I promise not to mix so many metaphors in class). We will also talk nuts and bolts like: point of view, tense, dialogue, scene, beginnings and endings and why they weigh so much, and narrative arc. Students should come prepared to write.

Led by Pam Houston