Fiction Workshop

Creating Fiction through Generative Revision – Online Workshop

Emerging writers are familiar with the experience of a story that starts off strong and is a joy to write, but later becomes a labor that goes unfinished. This workshop will focus on techniques to deal with this loss of momentum. We have this idea that great work comes to other writers in one neat, complete package. It’s only through experience that we learn that the best writing is achieved with patience and intentional work through layers of thoughtful, generative revision. In this eight-week fiction workshop, we will strategically analyze works of published fiction and workshop our own stories in small groups as we work through a layered drafting schedule to bring to life a fully developed short story that is grounded in inspiration from life.

About the instructor:
PATRICK STOCKWELL is the author of The Light Here Changes Everything, winner of the Clay Reynolds Novella Prize. His work can also be found in Gulf Coast, Glass Mountain, and elsewhere. He is an Inprint MD Anderson Foundation fellow and PhD candidate in fiction at the University of Houston and holds an MFA from New Mexico State University.