You wrote it; we’ll workshop it. In the name of art defining itself, let’s (largely) set genres and labels aside for the week and concentrate on reading and discussing one another’s writing according to what we perceive as its own terms, its own form, its own internal integrity. Let’s even swap “fiction” for “narrative prose,” and allow that the truth of any given piece always lies in some or other synthesis of imagination and fact. In other words, bring your stories and your narrative non-fiction, your novel excerpts and your kind-of-a-memoirs, regardless of genre or form, and we will seriously, cheerfully, vigorously, and open-mindedly devote the best of our attention to them and to their fullest realizations.
This workshop is open to both fiction and nonfiction writers.
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