ONSITE: Close Reading Workshop: Fiction and Creative Nonfiction

ONSITE: Close Reading Workshop: Fiction and Creative Nonfiction

Adult Multi-Week | This class is completed

1812 West Main Street Richmond, VA 23220 United States

Weinstein

All Levels

10/25/2021-11/29/2021

10:00 AM-12:30 PM EDT on Mon

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$145.00

$130.50

$5.00

$5.00

Did you know that fiction and creative nonfiction often use similar elements of narrative design? For writers of fiction and/or creative nonfiction, this class will be part craft discussion, part workshop, part generative space. Each week, we will close-read an essay or short story and articulate the craft elements being used (for example: POV, subject juxtaposition, braided structure, dialogue as story), and then use those elements in our own work. You will write four short works, either essays or short stories, your preference.

  • Students will come prepared having read the assigned essay or short story for that week's craft discussion, and will provide written feedback for each other’s workshop pieces. Your written work can be either fiction or creative nonfiction. Students will be provided copies of the essays and short stories that we’ll be reading in advance of class discussion. Students need writing materials for in-class writing prompts (laptop or notebook). Students will be expected to exchange class materials via email, so must be able to regularly access internet from home as well.
  • This class will not meet on 11/22/2021.
  • Classes are confirmed one week prior to the start date. In order to help us confirm classes, please register as early as possible.
  • Students must follow social distancing protocols and wear masks at all times. For more info visit visarts.org. This is an On-site course. On-site courses do not come with studio access outside of class time. Paid open studio access is available through our Studio Access Program: if interested please visit visarts.org.
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.