Class Description
Designed for MFA graduates and alumni of a GrubStreet Intensive program.
Whether as a way to find your true voice, explore new ground, or revitalize a stagnant scene, experiments with form and structure can open possibilities and unlock potential. In this six-week class, you will learn and practice techniques to explore different facets of a situation, dramatically shift narrative distance to gain new perspective, make constructive use of digression to air out a scene or broaden scope, and break into your own text to rant against a rule or convention that's holding you back.
Using readings from a wide range of writers, including Carmen Maria Machado, Percival Everett, Maggie Nelson, and Rebecca Solnit, weekly writing assignments, and live feedback on your results, we'll work to expand your horizons and re-energize a stalled project. Appropriate for long or short form fiction, memoir, or essay.
Writing Roadmap: We've created a simple, goal-based writing roadmap to help you find the perfect GrubStreet course for your writing needs.
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.