How to Start a Novel: and How to Finish It, Too
$285
So many writing workshops focus on the short story, but what if you’re writing a novel—or want to try? This class is intended to get you started on your novel, get you feedback, and keep you going. We’ll workshop excerpts of novels-in-progress, if you have them, but we’ll also work through low-pressure exercises intended to generate ideas and make narrative sparks fly. Alongside these workshops and exercises, we’ll read one published novel and discuss what makes it work, focusing on structure, pacing, character development, and story arcs.
Access Program
We want our writing classes and seminars 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 seminar 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.
Liaison position
Every in-person class and seminar at Literary Arts has one liaison position. Liaisons perform specific duties for each class meeting. If you are a liaison for a class or seminar, the full amount of your tuition is covered by Literary Arts.
Apply here for the liaison position.
Jordan Jacks
Jordan Jacks’ fiction has appeared in The Iowa Review, The Yale Review, Electric Literature Recommended Reading, and elsewhere. He was the 2015-16 James C. McCreight Fellow in Fiction at The Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and has taught at UW-Madison, St. Albans School, The Cleveland Institute of Art, and Washington University in St. Louis, where he earned an MFA in Fiction.
