Using high school classics, popular novels-turned-TV-shows, and short stories by authors such as ZZ Packer, Annie Proulx, Junot Diaz, Ernest Hemingway, and Lorrie Moore as guides, we’ll explore and practice strategies to create complex, conflicted characters while adding opportunities for confrontation, increasing tension, and speeding pacing. Come with one of your own characters in mind, or use one we’ll develop in our opening writing exercise.

Led by: Erin McCabe