The Art of The Story
With Tom Jenks
Four-Day Intensive Workshop
for Short Story Writers, Novelists,
and Authors of Creative Nonfiction
—ALL 2025 CLASSES WILL BE HELD VIRTUALLY—
The class will meet every day for four days, and each participant will have one manuscript workshopped by the entire class and a second manuscript reviewed for an individual conference with Tom. A reading list of works by noted authors will be assigned ahead of time, and we will go into these works to study storytelling and the formal elements of fiction, including voice, point of view, characterization, imagery, plot, and theme. Attention will also be given to scene building, sentence making, and the dramatic movement of descriptive writing. The class will be conducted each day from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time, via Zoom, and the individual conferences will be conducted by phone in the afternoons each day.
Enrollment is limited. Acceptance into the class will be based on evaluation of a submitted manuscript. Classes tend to fill prior to the application deadline, so early application is advised.
CLASS DATES
Mar. 20—23, 2025
May 1—4, 2025
May 1—4, 2025
APPLICATION DEADLINE
for the Mar. class Dec. 13, 2024
for the May class Feb. 7, 2025
for the May class Feb. 7, 2025
To apply or to receive more information:
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WRITERS EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY TOM JENKS INCLUDE:
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Rick Bass Richard Bausch Ann Beattie T. Coraghessan Boyle Janet Burroway Robert Olen Butler Michael Chabon Yoon Choi Frank Conroy Hal Crowther Don DeLillo E. L. Doctorow Andre Dubus Stuart Dybek Jennifer Egan Gail Godwin Donald Hall |
Saidiya Hartman Jim Harrison Charles Johnson R. O. Kwon Krys Lee Min Jin Lee Bernard Malamud Anthony Marra Peter Matthiessen Jill McCorkle Arthur Miller Susan Minot Lorrie Moore Alice Munro Maud Newton Viet Thanh Nguyen Joyce Carol Oates |
Jayne Anne Phillips Annie Proulx Kirstin Valdez Quade Philip Roth Benjamin Alire Sáenz James Salter Robert Stone Morgan Talty John Updike Katherine Vaz Madhuri Vijay Kurt Vonnegut John Edgar Wideman Tom Wolfe Tobias Wolff Richard Yates Tryphena Yeboah |
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