(OWP) Fiction Writing

This workshop is for writers and teachers who want to plunge into the craft of fiction writing. We will read short fiction and discuss playful tricks of storytelling: the story, place, character, point of view, dialogue, tension and resolution. Each writer will develop a portfolio of fictional sketches, building toward one completed story through prompts for in-class writing, a developmental sequence for on-going creation, and supportive response in class.  

Dates: Thursdays, April 5, 12 and 19, May 3 and 10, 2012

Time: 4:15-7:15 p.m.

Location: Riverdale High School, Room 226

Instructor: Kim Stafford, Ph.D.

Degree-applicable credit: WCM 627, 1 semester hour, $500

Continuing education credit: CEED 895, 1 semester hour, $350

To register, or more information contact Pam Hooten at phooten@lclark.edu.

About the Instructor

Kim Stafford founded the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis & Clark College, and has published a dozen books of poetry and prose, most recently The Muses Among Us. He approaches writing as a chance to set down stories we have carried into poems, essays, radio commentaries, blessings, rants, parables, and other forms of  “tikkun olam,” the healing of the world. “In our time is a great thing not yet done. It is the marriage of Woody Guthrie’s gusto and the Internet. It the composing and wide sharing of generous expression in the voices of many for the needs of all.”