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FICT 104 — Elevate Your Craft: Fiction Workshop

Quarter: Spring
Instructor(s): Evgeniya Dame
Duration: 6 weeks
Location: On-campus
Date(s): Apr 30—Jun 4
Class Recording Available: No
Class Meeting Day: Thursdays
 
Class Meeting Time: 6:00—8:30 pm (PT)
Tuition: $655
   
Refund Deadline: May 2
 
Unit(s): 1
   
Enrollment Limit: 18
  
Status: Registration opens Feb 23, 8:30 am (PT)
 
Quarter: Spring
Day: Thursdays
Duration: 6 weeks
Time: 6:00—8:30 pm (PT)
Date(s): Apr 30—Jun 4
Unit(s): 1
Location: On-campus
 
Tuition: $655
 
Refund Deadline: May 2
 
Instructor(s): Evgeniya Dame
 
Enrollment Limit: 18
 
Recording Available: No
 
Status: Registration opens Feb 23, 8:30 am (PT)
 
 
Mastering the art of fiction is a lifelong endeavor. While introductory courses focus on the fundamentals of character, plot, and structure, this one delves into more advanced craft techniques to elevate your writing. We’ll study chapters from A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders and Meander, Spiral, Explode by Jane Alison, exploring sophisticated strategies for plot construction, narrative distance, and character development. We’ll analyze stories and novel excerpts by writers such as Ottessa Moshfegh, Deborah Levy, and Haruki Murakami, examining how each handles transitions, balances summary and scene, and builds an idiosyncratic voice. Students will receive writing prompts to foster experimentation and practice new techniques, and each student will workshop a story or novel segment of up to 2,000 words. Students will leave with a portfolio of new work and a more confident, skillful approach to writing fiction.

This course is intended for writers who have taken at least one course in fiction writing.

EVGENIYA DAME
Author

Evgeniya Dame received an MFA from the University of New Hampshire, where she was a Fulbright Fellow from Russia. Her fiction and essays have appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, Ploughshares, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Joyland, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She is a fiction editor at Joyland and is at work on a story collection and a novel. Dame was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford.