The Year of Your Book: Fiction

How long have you been saying that you want to write a book? How much longer do you have to wait? This series of classes begins at the start of 2015, when the New Year inspires serious resolutions. A combination of in-class writing, creative play and exploration, serious critique, deadlines, and mutual support, the goal is a solid draft (and celebration of your accomplishment) by the end of the year. Participants can go the distance, but the class is designed to accommodate ebb and flow according to where you are in the process.

These courses may be taken altogether or à la carte.

6 Fridays, 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m., 3/06/2015–4/10/2015

This is part 2 of a 6 section year-long course. This class is capped at 9 students

Karen Engelmann studied art at the University of Iowa, going on to a career in Sweden and NYC as an illustrator/designer. She published four books between 1997 and 2000 and in 2009 received an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. Her thesis project, The Stockholm Octavo, was published by Ecco/HarperCollins in 2012. The novel received starred reviews in Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews.Additionally, it was selected as a New York Times Editor’s Choice, has been translated into 14 languages, and won a Washington Irving Book Award for fiction in 2013. Her writing has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Powell’s, the Broad Street journal and in other online publications. She was named a Walter E. Dakin Fellow at the 2014 Sewanee Writer’s Conference.

Register at https://writerscenter.org/courses/the-year-of-your-book-fiction