This online workshop is designed to keep writers writing in the wave of face-to-face workshop cancellations. Each week includes
a new model of narrative prose
exercise prompts based on the model
space to post submissions
feedback from participants
feedback from instructor
The workshop will offer opportunities for work in flash/micro-fiction, short story, memoir, and long-form narrative. Writers considered might include Sally Rooney, Joy Castro, Justin Torres, Carmen Maria Machado, Eve Babitz, Myriam Gurba, Joan Didion, Kate Zambreno, and others.
We’ll go live June 17. Registration will remain for three weeks after class launch; one can join in progress and complete the six modules without rush, penalty, or limited access.
The course is entirely ONLINE. It goes live Wednesday evening, June 17, 2020. Six individual modules go live on consecutive Wednesdays. The course will remain accessible for several days beyond the closing date, August 4, 2020.
Register: https://bpt.me/4595151
Early Bird: $345 (until June 3)
After June 3: $370
Instructor: Tim Tomlinson
Tim Tomlinson is a co-founder of New York Writers Workshop and co-author of its popular text, The Portable MFA in Creative Writing. Other publications include the chapbook, Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse, the poetry collection, Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire, and the celebrated collection of short fiction, This Is Not Happening to You. His poems, essays, and short fiction have appeared in numerous US venues, as well as in Australia, China, and the Philippines. He serves on the advisory board of Asia Pacific Writers and Translators. He resides in Brooklyn, New York City, where he teaches in NYU's Global Liberal Studies program.