ONSITE: Freewriting Intensive: Fiction

ONSITE: Freewriting Intensive: Fiction

Adult Intensive | This class is completed

1812 West Main Street Richmond, VA 23220 United States

Weinstein

All Levels

10/8/2022-11/13/2022

10:00 AM-1:00 PM EDT on Sun Sat

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$85.00

$76.50

$5.00

Do you have story ideas but don’t know where to start? Are you wondering what to do with those completed story drafts that need revision? Or, maybe you’re a first-time writer looking for a way into the work? In this two-day intensive, we break down specific craft elements (POV, time management, characterization, etc), and then use what we’ve learned in progressive writing prompts that seek to help us delve deeper and complicate our initial ideas. This is a revamped intensive specifically for fiction writers. Come prepared to WRITE.

  • Workshop rescheduled to 11/12 + 11/13!

    Students will need tools for writing in class, such as laptop/tablet, notebook, pens, etc.

    This is an ONSITE course. All onsite students are required to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Students are expected to adhere to our COVID-19 policies. Onsite courses do not come with studio access outside of class time. Paid open studio access is available through our Studio Access Program. For more info please visit visarts.org.

    Classes are confirmed one week prior to the start date. In order to help us confirm classes, please register as early as possible.
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.