In this writing class, you’ll act as writers reading model short stories that explore: the way conflict happens despite our best efforts with Anton Chekhov and Edward P. Jones; how writers can use forms such as the parable with Franz Kafka; the power of atmosphere with Eudora Welty and James Baldwin; and the best way to take influence with Guy de Maupassant and Frank O’Connor’s “A Story by Maupassant.” In each of our four classes, you’ll identify and implement concrete techniques, devices, and strategies for your own writing. In each class, you’ll employ these techniques, devices, and strategies in order to produce multiple pieces of good writing that can easily become complete drafts. In taking from features of other writers’ craft, this class will help to highlight the unique details, passages, and voice in your own story that makes it so very much yours.
Enrollment is limited to 15 students. Class meets online on Mondays: March 3, 10, 17, and 24 from 6:30-9 pm.
- Instructor: Ian Ross Singleton
- Price: From $450.00
- Room: Online Classroom
- Use the link to register: https://www.92ny.org/class/short-story-writing-with-ian-ross-singleton
Ian Ross Singleton is author of the novel Two Big Differences. He is a professor of Writing and Critical Inquiry at the University at Albany. His short stories, translations, reviews, and essays have appeared in journals such as: Saint Ann’s Review; Cafe Review; New Madrid; Midwestern Gothic; Fiddleblack; Asymptote; Ploughshares; The Los Angeles Review of Books and Fiction Writers Review. His short-story collection manuscript Grow Me Up and Other Oaths was a finalist for the 2020 Tartts Fiction Award. He judged the 2024 Hopwood Award contest at the University of Michigan. Ian has taught Creative Writing and Literature for New York Writers Workshop, San Francisco State University, Cogswell Polytechnical College, the Prison University Project, the PEN Prison Writing Program, and the Hudson Valley Writers Guild.
