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Summer 2015, Writers Workshops,

FICTION

Course #2015-201
Mondays Starting June 1 6:00 pm–9:00 pm running 8 weeks
Cost: $285 Instructor: Giuseppe Taurino
This workshop is full

Where

Inprint House
1520 W Main St
Houston, TX 77006 United States
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Flannery O’Connor once said about her own writing, “My subject in fiction is the action of grace in a territory held largely by the devil.”  In writing our own stories, we will negotiate this space between beauty and mischief as we determine what it is exactly that we like about a given writer’s work, and how we can lift what we like and incorporate it into our own writing. The stories we read in this course will be models and guides, but the primary focus will be on developing our own sense of craft, on learning how to make “the right choice” in the middle of a story or a sentence, and on investigating the various approaches we have at our disposal—retrospective narration and narrative distance, limited vs. omniscient point of view, dialogue, authorial intrusions, humor, etc. My hope is that by working together we build a constructive and creative environment that encourages risk-taking, ambition, and self-discovery.

About the instuctor

GIUSEPPE TAURINO is the Assistant Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston. He is also a Contributing Editor for American Short Fiction, and previously served as the Manager of Capacity Building Initiatives for the Houston Arts Alliance, Executive Director of Badgerdog Literary Publishing in Austin, Texas, and as a writer-in-residence with Writers in the Schools (WITS) Houston. Giuseppe has been awarded an Inprint Donald Barthelme Fellowship in Fiction and scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. His stories have appeared in Epoch, New South, The Potomac Review, Word Riot and elsewhere.

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