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Carry On: A Post-Yearlong Workshop Craft Studio

Genres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Memoir, Novel, Short Story, Essay

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4 Sessions

Start Date: July 12, 2023
End Date: August 16, 2023
Day of Week: Wednesday
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm PT
Capacity: 18 seats
Member Price: $216.00
General Price: $240.00

Writers who have completed a yearlong workshop in prose and are continuing to develop manuscripts are invited to meet twice a month in July and August for focused discussions of issues of craft, periodic generative writing exercises, and supportive encouragement in this casual tour through Charles Baxter's guide to craft, Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction.

Class Skip Dates: 7/19/2023, 8/9/2023

Registration dates:

June 5: Scholarship Donation Day (Learn more.)

June 6: Member registration opens

June 13: General registration opens

Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum

Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum

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Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum is the author of three collections of short fiction, most recently What We Do With the Wreckage, which won the 2017 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and was published by UGA Press in 2018. Her earlier collections are Swimming With Strangers (Chronicle, 2008) and This Life She's Chosen (Chronicle, 2005). Her short fiction has been published in Ploughshares, McSweeney's, One Story, and North American Review, among other journals, and she has been the recipient of a PEN/O. Henry Prize. Kirsten teaches fiction writing at Hugo House and 9th–12th grade English at a small independent school near Seattle.

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