Class Description
This workshop will follow the spangles of the fairy tale through twentieth and twenty-first century literary fiction, using the work of authors such as Franz Kafka, Isak Dinesen, Steven Millhauser, Neil Gaiman, Angela Carter, and Sjón as portals to imaginary worlds modeled closely upon our own. Exercises will encourage writers to incorporate magical and mythological elements into a realistic framework or setting, while upholding the hallmarks of literary technique. Although voice and narrative storytelling will be queens for the day, the faithful subjects of character, scene, description, and dialogue will still hold court.
Our class will consist in discussion and in-class writing; the aim is generative, to spark new ideas and take fanciful leaps into the unknown. Previous experience with the fairy tale genre is not required.
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This class will take place using Zoom videoconferencing. After registering, a yellow Resources tab will appear in this section containing a link to join class. Please note that you will need to be logged into view the Resources tab.
Zoom Participation:
In our experience, the intimate nature of a writing workshop benefits from on-camera participation. Students are of course welcome to turn their camera off whenever they need to, but it is a community norm for cameras to be on most of the time. You can learn more about using Zoom here.
Zoom Accessibility:
You can enable closed captioning at any time during the meeting by clicking the CC button at the bottom of the screen. If you'd like to access the transcript after class, please make sure to let your instructor ahead of time that you'd like a copy.