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FICT 115 — Writing You Can't Put Down: Breakout Fiction Workshop

Quarter: Summer
Instructor(s): Angela Pneuman
Duration: 8 weeks
Location: On-campus
Date(s): Jun 23—Aug 18
Class Recording Available: No
Class Meeting Day: Tuesdays
 
Class Meeting Time: 6:00—8:30 pm (PT)
Please Note: No class on July 28
Tuition: $825
   
Refund Deadline: Jun 25
 
Unit(s): 2
   
Enrollment Limit: 18
  
Status: Registration opens May 18, 8:30 am (PT)
 
Quarter: Summer
Day: Tuesdays
Duration: 8 weeks
Time: 6:00—8:30 pm (PT)
Date(s): Jun 23—Aug 18
Unit(s): 2
Location: On-campus
 
Tuition: $825
 
Refund Deadline: Jun 25
 
Instructor(s): Angela Pneuman
 
Enrollment Limit: 18
 
Recording Available: No
 
Status: Registration opens May 18, 8:30 am (PT)
 
Please Note: No class on July 28
 
 
In this workshop, you will learn how to produce prose that captures a reader’s attention from the very first page. We will read fiction by writers such as Julie Otsuka, Yiyun Li, and John Edgar Wideman to examine how their work engages us through vivid detail, imperfect characters, and urgent conflict. Craft talks and prompts will help you generate new material while sharpening your sense of what keeps readers turning pages. Students will receive instructor feedback on weekly exercises, and everyone will workshop up to 5,000 words of a short story or novel chapter. Whether you’re new to fiction or experienced, a short story writer or an aspiring novelist, this course offers the structure, guidance, and inspiration to move your work forward. You will leave with strong new pages and a stronger understanding of how to craft fiction that resonates from the opening sentence to the final scene.

For students who have previously taken the course, the structure is the same but the content is new. Past students are encouraged to join.

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.