Writing Workshops

Advanced Story Workshop with Emily Nemens (September 2024)

$395

6 Sessions

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Once a week Mondays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT September 23 to November 4, 2024

Online via Zoom

How do you get a good story from idea to page and across the finish line? Improve how you edit yourself and give productive feedback to others with the guidance of a seasoned story editor. In this class for experienced fiction writers, we’ll workshop participants’ short stories each week, read published essays and stories together, and talk about elements of craft and story that will inform the pieces at hand and, hopefully, move your practice forward.

We’ll discuss micro and macro approaches to revision, from making big, scene-slashing edits to considering a sentence’s cadence and word choice. Along the way, you’ll work toward preparing your short fiction for publication and learn how to sustain your writing practice long after this workshop is complete. This class is best suited for writers with prior experience writing fiction and some familiarity with creative writing workshops. The reading list and workshop schedule are built around/informed by student work, so all stories will be due two weeks before the start of the course (on September 9th).

Course Outline: Each week we will workshop two stories (enrollment dependent) and discuss a published story or essay.

This course is held online via Zoom. There is no meeting October 14th.

Led by

Emily Nemens

Emily Nemens

Emily Nemens is the author of the novel The Cactus League, and her fiction has appeared in BOMB, the Gettysburg Review, the Iowa Review, and elsewhere. Emily has spent a dozen years editing literary quarterlies, including leading the Paris Review, which won its first American Society of Magazine Editors’ Award for Fiction under her tenure; she also served as co-editor of the Southern Review. She has taught creative writing at Appalachian State University, the University of Leipzig, Drew University, and in community-based workshops.

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