Tickets
$75
Please note this workshop is limited to 14 participants
Want to get started writing fiction but unsure where to begin? Join Meg Wolitzer, New York Times bestselling author of The Interestings, The Uncoupling, The Ten-Year Nap, The Female Persuasion, The Position, The Wife, and Sleepwalking, for an introductory session on the act of getting started! In this 3-hour workshop, Wolitzer will guide participants through the early stages of the process including brainstorming, researching, developing characters, conflicts, outlining, and more. Hosted at The Church, this class will be a safe, supportive place to develop ideas and begin work on a novel or short story of your own.
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Meg Wolitzer is the author of many novels, including The Female Persuasion, The Interestings, The Ten-Year Nap, and The Wife. Wolitzer was the guest editor of The Best American Short Stories 2017, and has also published short fiction and essays, as well as books for young readers. She is a faculty member in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton, where, along with novelist Susan Scarf Merrell, she co-founded and co-directs BookEnds, a one-year non-credit intensive in writing novels. Wolitzer is the host of the literary radio show and podcast Selected Shorts.