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FICT 92 W — Writing Character-Driven Fiction

Quarter: Fall
Instructor(s): Evgeniya Dame
Duration: 10 weeks
Location: Online
Date(s): Sep 24—Dec 3
Class Recording Available: Yes
Class Meeting Day: Thursdays
 
Class Meeting Time: 5:30—6:30 pm (PT)
Please Note: No class the week of November 23
Tuition: $1040
   
Refund Deadline: Sep 26
 
Unit(s): 2
   
Enrollment Limit: 18
  
Status: Registration opens Aug 17, 8:30 am (PT)
 
Quarter: Fall
Day: Thursdays
Duration: 10 weeks
Time: 5:30—6:30 pm (PT)
Date(s): Sep 24—Dec 3
Unit(s): 2
Location: Online
 
Tuition: $1040
 
Refund Deadline: Sep 26
 
Instructor(s): Evgeniya Dame
 
Enrollment Limit: 18
 
Recording Available: Yes
 
Status: Registration opens Aug 17, 8:30 am (PT)
 
Please Note: No class the week of November 23
 
 
While plot may be the engine of prose, character is its beating heart. Long after we’ve forgotten the details of a story, we remember Olive Kitteridge’s severity, Arthur Less’s shyness, or the keenly observant protagonists of Katie Kitamura. In this writing-intensive, generative course, we will develop vivid, memorable characters and build stories around them, approaching the study of character through observation exercises, research-based prompts, and close reading of the work of writers such as Evan S. Connell, Elizabeth McCracken, and Charles D’Ambrosio. In the first half of the course, students will create a portfolio of characters to serve as a springboard for future fiction; in the second half, they will develop one of these into a short story or novel chapter (up to 3,000 words) for instructor and small-group feedback. Open to short story writers and novelists of all levels, the course is designed to deepen and enliven your fiction through more dynamic and layered characterization.

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 the associate editor at The Threepenny Review and is at work on a story collection and a novel. Dame was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford.