INSTRUCTOR: THEODORA ZIOLKOWSKI
TIME: Four Tuesdays, June 2nd, June 9th, June 16th, June 23rd, 6-9 PM
PRICE: Early-Bird until Thursday, May 28th: $150 for members, $180 for
non-members. After Thursday, May 28th: $180 for members, $210 for
non-members. Become a member here
[http://www.writespacehouston.org/memberships.html]. Scholarships
available here.
LOCATION: Writespace
[https://www.writespacehouston.org/directions.html] at Silver Street
Studios, 2000 Edwards #208, HOUSTON, TX 77007
LEVEL: All Levels
CAP: Limited to 15 WritersFrom romance to mystery and suspense to
literary thrillers and domestic dramas—and beyond!—novellas, or
short novels typically between 17,500 and 40,000 words, come in a
variety of genres. As writers, they offer us the opportunity to create
stories that demand focused intensity while also asking that this
intensity move beyond a short story’s constraints. In this
generative four-week workshop, we will assess the values of the form
and explore techniques drawn from excerpts of a variety of published
novellas for inspiration. To investigate ways to enter our own
novellas, we will ask ourselves what kinds of stories are ripe for the
concentration a novella affords, and devote each week to examining in
detail a specific craft aspect of the novella, generating and sharing
excerpts from our own works-in-progress along the way. Novellas whose
passages we will look at will include Joyce Carol Oates’s literary
thriller Black Water, Nnedi Okorafor’s science fiction novella
Binti, and Jennifer Weiner’s romance, Swim. Participants will leave
the workshop having generated new material to help grow their
novellas.
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