Courses

This workshop is for writers interested in the strange, the fragmented, the nonlinear, and the beautifully unclassifiable. Maybe you’re working on a short story told through text messages, braided with myth, or one that defies chronology. Perhaps you’re drawn to found forms, radical points of view, or prose bordering on poetry. Whatever you’re dreaming up, this class will offer the support and craft tools to bring your unconventional vision to life. Through generative exercises and discussions, you’ll develop a short story that resists easy definition and commands the reader’s attention. We’ll explore the structural possibilities of form as well as voice, time, and white space. You’ll be encouraged to take creative risks while learning how to shape and revise your work with intention. We’ll examine how stories by writers such as Margaret Atwood, Ed Park, Lydia Davis, and Shanteka Sigers challenge conventions while delivering emotional resonance and narrative power. Every student will have one complete story workshopped, and we'll end the course by diving into revision, learning how to refine an experimental piece without smoothing out its wildness—keeping the heat and risk while sharpening the language and effect.