Class Description
This workshop is part of GrubStreet's Manuscript Month, a programming deep dive into the publishing journey. Learn more about Manuscript Month here!
The quality of your prose not only assures readers that they are in capable artistic hands, it also signals to editors and publishers that your work is ready for the professional market. Designed for writers with prior workshop experience, this four-week course combines lecture, discussion, writing prompts, and on-the-spot feedback to help you develop a confident and compelling stylistic vision.
We’ll examine sentence-level techniques, explore strategies for achieving consistency in tone and voice, and uncover ways to amplify your unique voice through intentional stylistic choices. Authors whose work will guide our discussion include Jeanette Winterson, George Saunders, and Mohsin Hamid, among others.
By the end of the workshop, you’ll have a deeper understanding of style as a function of craft, clear strategies for discovering and refining your own stylistic approach, and practical tools to elevate your prose to a publishable level.
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.