Writing Workshops

Highsmith in the Morning with Regina Porter

$150

1 Session

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Saturday, 11:30 am EDT - 4:00 pm EDT May 17, 2025

The Center for Fiction

During this one-day seminar we will discuss Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley, including but not limited to, sampling scenes from film and television adaptations for craft insights. Why have there been so many iterations of Ms. Highsmith’s pulp classic? What are the requirements for a novel to count as a “literary” mystery today? Are such categories still relevant? We’ll delve into these questions as we explore the unconventional choices Patricia Highsmith made when writing The Talented Mr. Ripley as well as her use of suspense, time, and place to ignite turning points in the relationships of her characters.

The second half of class will be dedicated to developing your own work using creative writing prompts. Please come to class prepared to write in long-hand and on your laptop and to read aloud. We’ll break for a short half-hour lunch at 12:30pm and reconvene at 1pm. Class will end at 4pm.

Led by

Regina Porter

Regina Porter

Regina Porter is an award-winning playwright and author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Rich People Have Gone Away, and The Travelers, which was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and longlisted for the Orwell Political Fiction Prize. Her writing has been published in the Harvard Review, Tin House, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and the Oxford American. Ms. Porter was a story editor on Showtime’s City on a Hill.

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