OWC 310 A — One-on-One Tutorial: Novel
Quarter: Winter
Instructor(s): Wendy Nelson Tokunaga
Date(s): Jan 12—Mar 24
Class Recording Available: No
Class Meeting Day: TBD
Class Meeting Time: TBD
Please Note: The full tuition refund deadline for this course is Dec. 29 at 5:00 pm (PT). Partial refunds will not be given after this date.
Tuition: $4000
Refund Deadline: Dec 29
Unit(s): 3
Enrollment Limit: 1
Status: Closed
Quarter: Winter
Day: TBD
Duration: 10 weeks
Time: TBD
Date(s): Jan 12—Mar 24
Unit(s): 3
Tuition: $4000
Refund Deadline: Dec 29
Instructor(s): Wendy Nelson Tokunaga
Enrollment Limit: 1
Recording Available: No
Status: Closed
Please Note: The full tuition refund deadline for this course is Dec. 29 at 5:00 pm (PT). Partial refunds will not be given after this date.
This course is not open to the public, but rather by admission only. For more information on the Writing Certificate Program and its application process, please click here.
The One-on-One Tutorial will bring together Certificate students and accomplished fiction writers in one-on-one pairs for an intensive 10-week tutorial. After each student-instructor pair establishes the goals of the tutorial, and creates a schedule of deadlines and meeting times, the student will have the opportunity to get feedback on their manuscript, in order to finish and/or revise it. There is a 100,000 word limit for manuscripts submitted for the One-on-One Tutorial. Manuscripts exceeding this limit are subject to approval and additional fees will apply.
The One-on-One Tutorial will bring together Certificate students and accomplished fiction writers in one-on-one pairs for an intensive 10-week tutorial. After each student-instructor pair establishes the goals of the tutorial, and creates a schedule of deadlines and meeting times, the student will have the opportunity to get feedback on their manuscript, in order to finish and/or revise it. There is a 100,000 word limit for manuscripts submitted for the One-on-One Tutorial. Manuscripts exceeding this limit are subject to approval and additional fees will apply.
WENDY NELSON TOKUNAGA
Author
Wendy Nelson Tokunaga is the author of Midori by Moonlight, Love in Translation, Falling Uphill, His Wife and Daughters, and the self-published novel No Kidding, which received a Writer’s Digest award. She’s also written the nonfiction book Marriage in Translation: Foreign Wife, Japanese Husband and the short story collection Postcards from Tokyo. Her new novel, Brenda Barker’s Next Chapter, will be published in February 2026. Tokunaga received an MFA in writing from the University of San Francisco. Textbooks for this course:
There are no required textbooks; however, some fee-based online readings may be assigned.