A 2-Week In-Person Fiction Workshop
2 Saturdays, January 25 & February 1, 1-4 PM
Most writers know the importance of revision, yet too often it feels like going over the same sentence to no effect. In this class, we will discuss a creative approach to revision which takes into account the stage of the process the writers find themselves in, as well as the particular needs of the draft. The first meeting will include a brief lecture and several writing prompts that will allow students to try different revision techniques. In the second meeting, students will have an opportunity to share a revised story or fragment and to receive targeted feedback on the needs of the current draft. This class is ideal for students with some experience in writing short fiction and will be most useful to those who have a short story draft they wish to revise.
SUBMIT: Excerpt of manuscript (up to 3,000 words) for review to programs@mainewriters.org by January 11th.
$120 Members/$175 Nonmembers
Evgeniya Dame grew up in Samara, Russia and currently lives in Maine. She is a Fulbright Scholar, a graduate of the MFA program at the University of New Hampshire, and a 2020-2022 Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford Creative Writing Program. Her fiction appears in Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Southern Review, SUBTROPICS, and Joyland. Her non-fiction and interviews have appeared in Electric Literature and New England Review online. She edits fiction for Joyland Magazine and contributes reviews for KIRKUS. She is currently teaching in the Stanford Continuing Studies Program.
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SCHOLARSHIP
The MWPA is proud to offer one partial scholarship to this workshop for members-only. Scholarships are awarded on a combination of need and merit. Email programs@mainewriters.org to see if the scholarship is still available. Application Due by October 12th at 9:00 a.m.
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