Fiction
August 6-31, 2018
Open to All
Tiered Tuition
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About the Offering
Character is the heart of a fiction writer’s work, and we will spend this month with our characters, imagining and re-imagining them and their worlds, breathing life into these unique souls whose actions and reactions drive their destiny–and story– forward.
We’ll use characters from your work and and a series of exercises and readings to help us ‘get’ them more completely, so as to represent them vividly on the page. For both fiction writers and memoirists this can open a new vision, give a new slant an old one, and make for more convincing, moving, and satisfying work.
Materials Needed
No specific materials needed for this offering.
About the Instructor/Moderator
Heidi Jon Schmidt has published stories and essays in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Grand Street, Epoch, and many others. Her stories have been anthologized in The O'Henry Prize Stories, Best American Nonrequired Reading, etc., and won the James Michener and the Ingram Merrill awards for fiction. The Harbormaster’s Daughter (2012) and The House on Oyster Creek (2010), her most recent books, were published by Penguin/NAL.
Accessibility Information
Their work is regularly exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of over 60 museums. Over the past fifteen years, they have built a sustainable career as a visual artist and have extensive experience working with museums, galleries, universities and nonprofit organizations, publishers, and press outlets. In addition to their own creative work, they are passionate about sharing the professional knowledge they’ve acquired throughout their career with other artists.
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