Year of Your Book: Fiction with Jonathan Vatner via Zoom

How long have you been saying you want to write a book? Let 2023 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 craft outlines and discuss structure, then address the mechanics of fiction during in-depth, sensitive critiques of your work. Each student can workshop four excerpts over the 12 weeks. 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.

The “workbook” will be Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses.

Session Dates:
Feb 6, Feb 13, Feb 20, March 12, March 19, March 26, April 9, April 16, April 23, April 30, May 7, & May 14.

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.