JANUARY-FEBRUARY FICTION/NONFICTION WORKSHOP IN PARK SLOPE

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Email Brooke Shaffner at [email protected] if interested.

Writers in this workshop will investigate and discuss aspects of craft—plot structure, scene development, point of view, pacing, characterization, conflict, setting, tone, language, imagery, dialogue, beginnings, and endings—in both student submissions and published works. Optional writing prompts for inspiration and developing craft techniques will be offered. By sharpening their ability to discern and evaluate the stylistic and structural choices in the work of others, students will develop the ability to better manipulate craft elements in their own work.

Each writer has the opportunity to submit twice (stories, essays, articles, flash fiction, novel excerpts, etc.) and receives written critiques from the instructors and the other workshop members, as well as an individual conference with the instructors. We will meet weekly at the 440 Gallery, an intimate storefront gallery in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Dates: This workshop will start in the first week of January and meet one night per week from 7:30 to 9:30. Dates will be determined based upon student availability. Two writers will be workshopped in each session, so the number of meetings (4 to 8) will depend on the number of students who enroll. Enrollment is capped at 8 students.

Cost: $350

Instructor Bio:

Brooke Shaffner received her MFA in creative writing from Columbia University, where she was a Dean’s Fellow. Her writing has appeared in The Hudson Review and the anthology Lost and Found: Stories from New York. She has been awarded fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Ucross Foundation, the Edward Albee Foundation, the Constance Saltonstall Foundation, Jentel, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; and scholarships from VCCA-France, Summer Literary Seminars, and the Prague Summer Program. Her memoir, Fight/Flight,is represented by Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc., and she is currently at work on Borderlands, a collection of stories. She curates 440 Gallery's monthly reading and artist talk series.