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The Path to Story
Over this two-day generative workshop with Jarhead author Anthony Swofford, you will read the first pages of a number of fiction and nonfiction works and discuss “the path” into the works for the reader and the writer. With a series of creative prompts and group discussion, you’ll establish tactics for finding a way into story. On the second day, we will use small groups to workshop each writer’s new works and their steps toward establishing a world and narrative drive. Each participant will leave the workshop with the first pages of a new work-in-progress or a refreshed approach to established material.
Related Events
- Anthony Swofford will read at Hugo Literary Series: Behind Closed Doors on Friday, February 28, at 7 pm.
Due to COVID-19, all classes will take place online until further notice. If there's a possibility that your class might take place in person, you will be notified in advance. Even if classes can be held in person, there will always be a hybrid option to participate via Zoom.
Classes with "Zoom" in the title will be held via Zoom even after our doors open. Classes listed as "Online" will be held on Wet Ink, our platform for asynchronous learning.
Instructor: Anthony Swofford
Class Type: 2 Sessions
Featured Writers, Fiction, Multigenre, NonfictionStart Date: 02/29/2020
End Date: 03/01/2020
Days of the Week: Saturday, Sunday
Time: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Minimum Class Size: 5
Maximum Class Size: 15
$216.00
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Anthony Swofford
Anthony Swofford is the author of the memoirs Jarhead and Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails and the novel Exit A. Swofford’s essays, reportage, and opinion pieces have appeared in Harper’s, The Guardian, Slate, and the New York Times, among other places. He has taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and West Virginia University. He received his fiction MFA from Iowa. In 2020 Knopf will publish his biography of Carlos Arredondo, a Gold Star Father and hero of the 2013 marathon bombing in Boston. He’s currently writing a feature adaptation of this book. His next prose project is a campus novel called Eight Great Atheists. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the writer and photographer Christa Parravani, their three children, a fish with a host of names, a dog named Kingsley Exley Lizard, and nearby coyotes.