Year of Your Book: Fiction with Jonathan Vatner: Spring Session (via Zoom)
This is a 12-week course meeting Tuesdays from 7 pm to 9 pm (Eastern Time), starting January 21.The dates for this class are as follows: Jan 21, Jan 28, Feb 4, Feb 11, Feb 25, March 4, March 11, April 1, April 8, April 22, April 29, & May 6.
NB: This class will be taught online via Zoom. Login details will be sent via email from the instructor a few days before class begins. Please email [email protected] with questions.
How long have you been planning on writing a book—or finishing the book you started? Let 2024 be the year you do it! Whether you have a partial draft of a novel, memoir, or linked story collection, or just an idea and the desire to write, this class can help you move that “book in your head” onto the page. We will commit to a sustainable writing schedule, craft outlines and discuss structure, and address the mechanics of fiction during in-depth, sensitive critiques of your work. Each student can workshop three excerpts over the 12 weeks. We will use “The Half-Known World” by Robert Boswell as a textbook, discussing it chapter by chapter. Generative exercises will challenge you to experiment with new voices and forms, and our community of writers will help you stick to your goals. With steady effort, you can finish that first draft by this time next year.
Jonathan Vatner is the author of The Bridesmaids Union (St. Martin’s Press, 2022) and Carnegie Hill (Thomas Dunne Books, 2019). His novels have earned praise from People, Town & Country, The New York Post, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He is the managing editor of Hue, the magazine of the Fashion Institute of Technology, and teaches fiction writing at New York University. He lives in Yonkers, NY, with his husband and cats.
