4-Week: Writing with Chekhov

In this four-week course, we’ll dive into the work of the late-19th-century playwright and fiction writer Anton Chekhov and see what pearls we can retrieve. Together, we’ll read and discuss some of the Russian doctor’s best-loved short stories and his final play, The Cherry Orchard, drawing out craft lessons on plot structure, character development, dialogue, action, setting, and point of view. In addition to lecture and discussion, sessions will feature in-class, generative exercises designed to help writers implement these concepts.