Classes

Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Reading

  • Term: Winter 2023
  • Start Date: January 21, 2023
  • End Date: February 25, 2023
  • Day of Week: Saturday
  • Time: 1:10pm - 3:10pm PT
  • Level: Open to all levels
  • Audience: Adult
  • Location: Online
  • Availability: Full
  • Public Price: $305.00
  • Member Price: $274.50

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Plot for Poets & Writers of Short Fiction: Writing Alongside Lydia Davis

We’ll read the stories of Lydia Davis with an eye to giving our short narratives, whether in poetry or prose, a dramatic arc, and a telling finale. How can we make our tales impossible to put down? Are plot twists transferrable to poetry? We’ll find out. Weekly prompts, instructor feedback, discussion. Text: The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis (Picador).

Registration dates:

December 5: Scholarship Donation Day (Learn more.)

December 6: Member registration opens

December 13: General registration opens

Deborah Woodard

Deborah Woodard

She / Her

Deborah Woodard holds an MFA from the University of California, Irvine, and a PhD from the University of Washington. She is the author of Plato’s Bad Horse (Bear Star Press, 2006), Borrowed Tales (Stockport Flats, 2012), and No Finis: Triangle Testimonies, 1911 (Ravenna Press, 2018). Her chapbook Hunter Mnemonics (hemel press, 2008) was illustrated by artist Heide Hinrichs. She has translated Amelia Rosselli with Giuseppe Leporace in The Dragonfly: A Selection of Poems: 1953 – 1981 (Chelsea Editions, 2009) and with Roberta Antognini in Hospital Series (New Directions, 2015) and Obtuse Diary (Entre Ríos Books, 2018). Woodard teaches at Hugo House in Seattle and co-curates the reading series Margin Shift.