Master Classes
Fiction: Building Full Real Characters
Nahid Rachlin
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Students learn how to create complex, 3-dimensional characters within the context of plot, dialogue, viewpoint and voice. The course will include generaldiscussion of the craft of fiction writing, critique of students’ work and writing exercises. Students should bring 5-10 double-spaced pages from a short story, novel or novella for constructive criticism.
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Dowd•O’Gorman Writing Center. $125 includes lunch. Limited to 15 participants.
Nahid Rachlin is the author of Foreigner, Married to a Stranger, Heart’s Desire, Jumping Over Fire, Veils, and a memoir, Persian Girls.
A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, her stories have appeared in more than 50 magazines.
Poetry Master Class
Kate Light
Saturday, April 26, 2008
In this workshop, students will learn about revising their poems, including how to hone and guide a poem toward completion while retaining the poem’sflow. Revising—literally, looking again—requires staying open to the intuitive, creative self while, at the same time, cultivating a keen critical sense. Students should bring two original “poems in progress,” and one favorite poem written by someone else.
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Dowd•O’Gorman Writing Center. $125 includes lunch. Limited to 15 participants.
Kate Light is the author of Gravity’s Dream (Donald Justice Award), Open Slowly, The Laws of Falling Bodies (Nicholas Roerich Prize), and the texts ofconcert pieces Oceanophony and Einstein’s Mozart. Her poetry has appeared in The Paris Review, Hudson Review and Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems for Hard Times, among other venues. Her lyrics are heard in Disney’s Mulan II. She is a professional violinist.