We’ll end with a conversation about finding markets, submitting and publishing our work.Ĭlass meetings will be held over video chat, using Zoom accessed from your private class page. Students will read short stories and essays, participate in focused discussions on craft, complete short generative assignments, and submit their own work for workshop twice over the course of eight weeks. Beginners and experienced writers are both welcome to join in this contemplation of literary time travel. This course is for writers of fiction and/or creative non-fiction at any level. We will also write and workshop our own non-linear narratives, paying special attention to how the structure and content of a piece work together. We will look closely at published stories and essays from writers such as Ted Chiang, Matthew Salesses, and Jeneé Skinner to see how other authors have fractured linear timelines to add power and depth to their tales. This course will take a close look at narratives that play with time and structure: stories that go backwards, essays disguised as quizzes, competing parallel plot-lines, and more! Sometimes the beginning isn’t the best place to start.
