Jayne Anne Phillips - Writing The Primal Story

This is a workshop for those who are writing their way to the heart of their own material. Any story can be "primal" if it reaches deep enough, but we'll start with a few texts in common: please read James Agee's A Death In The Family, William Maxwell's They Came Like Swallows, Katherine Anne Porter's classic story, "The Grave," and Delmore Schwartz's story, "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities." Think about these between now and June, and please bring them with you.

Please send: 10 copies of one story, 25 double-spaced page limit, to FAWC by Monday, June 2. Students will be asked to type a critique of each story upon to which base class discussion; the critiques will then be given to the writer as a help in revision. We'll discuss each story on its own terms, from theme, character, language and structure, to line edit.

Type: Fiction
Price: $600
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