Year of Your Book: Fiction with Jonathan Vatner: Spring Session (via Zoom)

This is a 6-week course meeting Tuesdays from 7 pm to 9 pm (Eastern Time), starting April 1. The dates for this class are as follows: April 1, April 8, April 22, April 29, May 6, May 13.

How long have you been planning on writing a book—or finishing the book you started? Let 2025 be the year you do it! Whether you have a partial draft of a novel, memoir, or linked story collection, or just an idea and the desire to write, this class can help you move that “book in your head” onto the page. We will commit to a sustainable writing schedule, craft outlines and discuss structure, and address the mechanics of fiction during in-depth, sensitive critiques of your work. Each student can workshop three excerpts over the 6 weeks. We will use “The Half-Known World” by Robert Boswell as a textbook, discussing it chapter by chapter. Generative exercises will challenge you…