Jump-Start Your Fiction

 

 

This generative fiction workshop is designed for new writers who struggle with getting started and returning writers who want to get back in practice. In a supportive and encouraging workshop environment, participants will work through exercises in developing character and plot, generating and combining story elements, and using productive constraints. You’ll leave with strategies you can use to find compelling ideas and overcome blank-page paralysis — and hopefully with a story or two that you’re ready to start writing.

 

About the instructor: Stephanie Manuzak is a freelance editor and writer from Maryland. Her fiction has appeared in Black Words on White Paper, Kestrel, Avatar Review, Perigee, and elsewhere. She has an MFA from Rutgers University-Camden and is the managing editor of StoryQuarterly.