Class Description
If you find yourself daydreaming about time travel on your commute, setting ghost stories in the old houses on your block, or fantasizing about what comes out to play in the public gardens at midnight, you will love this class. We'll spend six weeks charging up your imagination and getting you inspired to either finish that manuscript in progress or start work on a brand new one. Each week we will study a different element of Magical Fiction, be it setting, narrative voice, timeline, believability, or flexible reality. We will read classic voices from the genre, such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Kurt Vonnegut, as well as modern writers such as Margaret Atwood and Neil Gaiman. And we'll devote a couple of classes to workshopping your writing, with in-depth feedback from the instructor and your peers. If you are stuck in a rut with your writing or simply bursting with ideas and no clue how to begin, this class will help get you fired up and on the path to building your own fantastic tales.
Did you know that we have scholarships available for all GrubStreet classes? To apply or find out more, check out our scholarships page.
Thanks to the excellent literary citizenship of our donors, scholarships are available for all GrubStreet classes. To apply, click the gray "APPLY FOR SCHOLARSHIP" button. In order to be considered for a scholarship, you must complete your application at least one week before the start date of a class. Please await our scholarship committee's decision before registering for the class. We cannot hold spots in classes, so the sooner you apply, the better. Scholarships cannot be applied retroactively.
For more detailed information about GrubStreet scholarships, including how to contribute to scholarship funds for other students, click here.
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.