Writing Workshops

Narrative Truth: How Fiction Can Serve Your Nonfiction with Courtney Zoffness

$150

2 Sessions

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Saturday & Sunday 2:00 pm EDT - 5:00 pm EDT October 23 to October 24, 2021

Online via Zoom

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How can writers make a personal story immersive? Propulsive? Deeply felt? This bootcamp will consider craft techniques essential to fiction writing—dramatic tension, characterization, setting, salient details—and show how they can strengthen and enrich narrative nonfiction.

All Levels
Capacity: 20

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Led by

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    Courtney Zoffness

    Courtney Zoffness

    Courtney Zoffness won the Sunday Times Short Story Award, the largest international prize for short fiction. Her debut work of nonfiction, Spilt Milk, appeared on 2021 “must-read” lists from Publishers Weekly, LitHub, Refinery29, Good Morning America, and others. She’s published in the Paris Review Daily, the New York Times, the Southern Review, Guernica, and several anthologies, and been honored by fellowships from The Center for Fiction and MacDowell. A seasoned professor, she currently directs the Creative Writing Program at Drew University.

By Courtney Zoffness

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    Spilt Milk

    By Courtney Zoffness

    Published by McSweeney's Publishing

    PURCHASE

    What role does a mother play in raising thoughtful, generous children? In her literary debut, internationally award-winning writer Courtney Zoffness considers what we inherit from generations past—biologically, culturally, spiritually—and what we pass on to our children. Spilt Milk is an intimate, bracing, and beautiful exploration of vulnerability and culpability. Zoffness relives her childhood anxiety disorder as she witnesses it manifest in her firstborn; endures brazen sexual advances by a student in her class; grapples with the implications of her young son’s cop obsession; and challenges her Jewish faith. Where is the line between privacy and secrecy? How do the stories we tell inform who we become? These powerful, dynamic essays herald a vital new voice.

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