Free Writing Intensive

Free Writing Intensive

Adult Intensive | This class is completed

1812 West Main Street Richmond, VA 23220 United States

Off Site

All Levels

12/5/2020-12/6/2020

10:00 AM-12:30 PM EDT on Sun Sat

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$65.00

$58.50

$10.00

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This year has been impossible! Let's try to look ahead by generating new work for 2021. Through intensive freewriting and class discussion, we will delve deeper and complicate our initial ideas. Open to all genres and levels. This class is for first-time writers, writers in the muddled middle of a longer project, and writers feeling directionless after time away from the page. Like going to the gym for writers, this class is a generative space about letting go of our inner editor. Class time is organized around writing prompts which underscore certain essentials (sensory details, challenging static characters/situations, objective correlatives, incorporating environment/setting, etc).

  • This is a predominantly generative space, with some instructor-led lessons, and some open discussion to allow for variety of student interests.
Sopkin, April

April Sopkin writes fiction and personal essays. She has been awarded a 2023 Elizabeth George Foundation grant to fund the completion of her short story collection. Her work has appeared in Joyland, Black Telephone Magazine, MIT Technology Review, Carve, Southern Indiana Review, and elsewhere. She was a 2019 Tin House Scholar and her work has won the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest, the Patricia Aakhus Award, and the Frank McCourt Memoir Prize. April’s work has also been supported by fellowships and artist residencies, including the Tin House Summer Workshop, TENT: Creative Writing at the Yiddish Book Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.