A 2-Week Online Fiction Workshop
Saturdays, June 7 & 14, 10 AM - 1 PM
You’ve reached the end of a draft—hooray!—but it’s not quite what you’d hoped. How do you begin to revise, so that the words on the page come closer to the vision in your mind? Revision is a process of discovery that can open up new possibilities while honing in on the emotional heart of the work. In this class, we will discuss strategies for how to re-vision—re-see—the work and identify areas for closer examination. We will use generative prompts to deconstruct and reconstruct the work, focusing on creating new material to rebuild the old. The work you generate in class will point you towards a finished draft that develops your story’s core truth.
All students will come to the class having already completed a story, ideally one that you feel stuck on. Meeting over the course of two days, this class will be a deep dive into the challenges and possibilities of your story draft while also offering tools to rethink the revision process beyond the current manuscript. As this class requires coming in with a drafted story, it is best suited to intermediate writers with some previous workshop experience.
$120 Members/$175 Nonmembers
Janika Oza is the author of the novel A History of Burning, which won the 2024 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and was a finalist for the 2023 Governor General's Award for Fiction, the 2024 Carol Shield’s Prize, the 2024 Amazon Canada First Novel Award, and the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. The novel was an instant national bestseller in Canada and a New York Times Editor’s Choice. She is the winner of a 2022 O. Henry Award, and her stories and essays have appeared in publications such as BOMB Magazine, The New York Times, and The Kenyon Review. She has taught writing workshops through the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and Leopardi Writing Conference and is currently the 2025 Writer-in-Residence at University of Toronto Scarborough. Janika lives in Toronto.
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SCHOLARSHIP
The MWPA is proud to offer one partial scholarship to this workshop for members-only. Scholarships are awarded on a combination of need and merit. Email programs@mainewriters.org to see if the scholarship is still available. Application Due by March 10 at 9:00 a.m.
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