Narrative “occurs in us and around us all the time,” said Gordon Lish in an interview. With this in mind, our workshop will center on learning to listen for, shape, and interpret our own narratives—and to bring them into conversation with the world around us. We will write new fiction and take a critical lens to the work of established writers in order to use their narratives—as well as selected craft essays and writing prompts—to examine aspects of form, voice, character, and conflict, as well as to consider choices in language, structure, and style. Our central goal is to explore all the stages of the writing process, and find ways to better integrate a writer’s vantage point, and a nuanced, complex understanding of narrative, into our daily lives and practices.
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Writers Workshops
FICTION 2016-101
About the instructor
JAMEELAH LANG holds a PhD from the UH Creative Writing Program, where she received an Inprint Mary Gibbs and Jesse H. Jones Fellowship and served as Nonfiction Editor for Gulf Coast, and an MFA from the University of Kansas. Her fiction appears or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review and Pleiades. She has recently received awards and fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Hub City Writers Project.
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