Online Class
Saturdays: June 6, 13, 20 / 1:00-2:00pm ET

One of my biggest frustrations about my MFA experience was how little we talked about style. Leading my own workshops, I’ve found that even very sophisticated writers often lack concepts and vocabulary to talk about style in anything but the vaguest terms. There are good reasons for this. A great style gives the sense of a whole life, a whole world, condensed to a voice; it’s one of the deepest mysteries in writing.

In this course, we’ll be as concrete as possible about that mystery. Over three 90-minute sessions, we’ll consider the elements that make for great style, reading short passages together to develop tools for meaningfully talking about diction, sentence structure, tone patterns of imagery and sound, genre and rhetoric. Each session will also include prompts to get you thinking about how to cultivate a richer sense of style in your own work.

All sessions will be recorded for students who can’t attend synchronously.

Saturdays: June 6, 13, 20
1:00pm – 2:30pm ET

Limited full and partial scholarships available. Please complete this form to apply for a scholarship.
All prices in USD.