Advanced Writing Workshops

Advanced Writing Workshops

Our classes feature limited enrollment with close individual attention to each participant's work. We offer workshops several times a year in San Francisco and major cities around the country. If you saw an ad or received a flyer for a class not listed below, it means the class has filled. The classes often fill quickly, well before the application deadlines, so if you're interested in a class, we encourage you to contact us promptly.
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Workshops

SAN FRANCISCO

Jan. 20 to 23, 2011

4-Day Intensive Workshops
for Short Story Writers, Novelists, and
Authors of Creative Nonfiction

with Tom Jenks

The class will meet every day for four days, with a morning workshop and an afternoon seminar focused on craft. For the seminar, there will be reading assignments and study of works by well known writers. Each participant will have one manuscript workshopped in class and a second manuscript reviewed for an individual conference with Tom. We will study storytelling and the formal elements of fiction, including voice, point of view, characterization, imagery, plot, and theme. Attention will also be given to scene building, sentence making, and the dramatic movement of descriptive writing. The program is very similar to the six-day intensive class, though limited to fewer participants and using a slightly abbreviated curriculum. The same high level of individual attention will be given in the 4-day classes as in the popular 6-day intensives also described on this page.

Enrollment limited to 12 participants.

Application deadline:

June 4, 2010

Dates and locations

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6-Day Intensive Workshops
for Short Story Writers, Novelists, and
Authors of Creative Nonfiction.

with Tom Jenks and Carol Edgarian

The class will meet every day for six days, with a morning workshop and an afternoon seminar focused on craft. For the seminar, there will be reading assignments and study of works by well-known writers as well as daily writing exercises. These exercises will be directly drawn from your own work and related to the aspects of craft under discussion each day in the seminar. Each participant will have one manuscript workshopped in class during the week and a second manuscript reviewed for an individual conference with Tom or Carol. Throughout the week we will give specific, daily focus to each writer's work. We will study storytelling and the formal elements of fiction, including voice, point of view, characterization, imagery, plot, and theme. Attention will also be given to scene building, sentence making, and the dramatic movement of descriptive writing.

Enrollment limited to 20 participants. Application deadline:
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WRITERS EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY TOM JENKS INCLUDE:
Rick Bass Richard Bausch Ann Beattie T. Coraghessan Boyle Janet Burroway Robert Olen Butler Italo Calvino Ron Carlson Michael Chabon Frank Conroy Don DeLillo E. L. Doctorow Andre Dubus Stuart Dybek	Jennifer Egan Richard Ford William Gass Donald Hall Ron Hansen Charles Johnson Ken Kesey Min Jin Lee Bernard Malamud Peter Matthiesson Jill McCorkle Jay McInerney James Alan McPherson Arthur Miller	Susan Minot Lorrie Moore Maud Newton Joyce Carol Oates Tim O'Brien Ann Pancake Jayne Anne Phillips George Plimpton Padgett Powell Annie Prouix Mark Richard Tom Robbins Philip Roth James Salter	Bob Shacochis Lee Smith Debra Spark Scott Spencer Robert Stone Elizabeth Tallent John Updike Kurt Vonnegut John Edgar Wideman Joy Williams Tom Wolfe Tobias Wolfe Richard Yates Alezi Zentner