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FICT 118 — Fiction Club: A Guided Writing Group

Quarter: Winter
Instructor(s): Angela Pneuman
Duration: 10 weeks
Location: On-campus
Date(s): Jan 7—Mar 11
Class Recording Available: No
Class Meeting Day: Thursdays
 
Class Meeting Time: 5:30—8:00 pm (PT)
Tuition: $1040
   
Refund Deadline: Jan 9
 
Unit(s): 2
   
Enrollment Limit: 18
  
Status: Registration opens Nov 30, 8:30 am (PT)
 
Quarter: Winter
Day: Thursdays
Duration: 10 weeks
Time: 5:30—8:00 pm (PT)
Date(s): Jan 7—Mar 11
Unit(s): 2
Location: On-campus
 
Tuition: $1040
 
Refund Deadline: Jan 9
 
Instructor(s): Angela Pneuman
 
Enrollment Limit: 18
 
Recording Available: No
 
Status: Registration opens Nov 30, 8:30 am (PT)
 
 
Writing groups are essential to most writers, providing structure, deadlines, and thoughtful feedback. Fiction Club brings together short story writers and novelists to trade pages and engage in lively literary conversation in a supportive, generative setting. Each session begins with a discussion of a published story or novel excerpt, followed by a craft talk and an in-class exercise. We’ll then workshop student submissions (stories or chapters), focusing on what’s working well before addressing opportunities for revision. To preserve your writing time, you won’t be required to provide formal written critiques; just come prepared to discuss one another’s work thoughtfully, having read it closely. The instructor will provide written comments on each submission. This is a space for fiction lovers to come together and read deeply, write bravely, and geek out about the choices that make invented worlds and characters come alive. Together, we’ll take risks, make breakthroughs, and move our work forward.

This is the second course in our Fiction Club series, which features a different instructor each quarter. The first course was offered in Fall 2026, and the third course will be offered in Spring 2027. Completing each course guarantees priority registration in the following quarter. Each course can be taken independently as well.

ANGELA PNEUMAN
Author

Angela Pneuman has taught at Stanford and in the MFA program at Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of Lay It on My Heart and Home Remedies, and her fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, Glimmer Train, The Virginia Quarterly Review, New England Review, and Ploughshares. She contributes to Salon and The Rumpus. Pneuman directs the Napa Valley Writers' Conference. She was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford and received a PhD in English from SUNY Albany.