How To Skin a Fox: Turning True Experiences into Fantastical Stories

Some real-life experiences are too bizarre, too painful, too otherworldly, to write about in a straight forward manner. What happens when you can’t or refuse to work from point A to point B. When point A isn’t where you left it and point B has rambled off, looped back around, and jumped on the back of point A like two fox cubs wrestling outside their den only to tumble down the hill and end up near the river. In this workshop we will take your real-world experiences and turn them into fantastical stories of autofiction. Women, after living through domestic abuse, might walk into a river and turn into a blue heron. A fisherman who loves a woman to the edge of her extinction might be a man who would steal a selkies skin. A love might turn a person into a ghost. A woman may give birth to an owl-baby. Come read some works that push the bounds of reality and push some boundaries yourself.

Access Program
We want our writing classes and Delves to be accessible to everyone, regardless of income and background. We understand that our tuition structure can present obstacles for some people. Our Access Program offers writing class and Delve tuitions at a reduced rate.Most writing classes have at least one access spot available.

Please apply here for access rate tuition. Contact Susan Moore at susan@literary-arts.org if you have questions.

Class cancellation policy:
If you register for a class and need to cancel before the class begins, here’s a link to our class cancellation policy.