Polishing Your Prose with Jonathan Vatner: (Zoom)

You’ve worked on your short story, essay, novel, or memoir for months if not years, and it’s ready to be sent out. Or is it? In this two-hour master class on refining prose, you’ll learn a dozen ways to make your sentences crisper and more dazzling, based on common errors and missteps observed over years of teaching and editing. We’ll address rhythm, sentence structure, wordiness, repetition, and familiar phrasings, and many other issues that might stop an agent or editor from taking the work seriously.

Students are encouraged to submit a page or two in advance to review together in class.

BIO: JONATHAN VATNER is the author of THE BRIDESMAIDS UNION (St. Martin’s Press, 2022) and CARNEGIE HILL (Thomas Dunne Books, 2019). His novels were praised by 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 has taught fiction writing at New York University, Manhattanville University, and the Hudson Valley Writers Center.