Workshop: Fiction
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READ LIKE A WRITER/WRITE LIKE A READER
Fiction with Ron Currie, Jr.
Writing good fiction can be mysterious, but it's not complicated--you just have to tell a story interesting enough to keep someone reading. No, really--that's all there is to it. In this workshop, we'll ask ourselves what it is that keeps us reading, through examining some terrific specimens of short fiction, as well as our own. Come as an eager reader, leave a better writer. Simple as that.
SUBMIT
After registering, each participant in the fiction workshop is asked to submit a manuscript of 2500 words max. Short fiction tends to fare better in workshop, but novel excerpts are okay.
Please send your submission by 9:00 a.m. on February 23. Please email the manuscripts as attachments to director@mainewriters.org with the subject line: “CURRIE SNOWBOUND MSS.” *Word files are preferred, but you may also send a PDF.
Ron Currie is the author of the novels The One-Eyed Man, Everything Matters! and Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles and the short story collection God is Dead, which was the winner of the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award. In 2009, he received the Addison M. Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His books have been translated into fifteen languages. He lives in Portland, Maine.