Read Well, Write Better: A Fiction Workshop with Michael Noll
When: Saturday June 1st, 2 to 6pm
Cost: Sliding scale, $85-150
To register: visit http://readtowritestories.com/read-well-write-better-workshop/
About the Workshop:
Have a story idea kicking around in your head? Or maybe you’ve banged out a few pages but ran into a wall? This energizing fiction workshop may be the jumpstart your writing has been looking for.
Whether you’re an experienced writer finishing a collection or an aspiring beginner Googling “How to Write a Short Story,” this class will provide you with a wide range of tools and techniques to help you draft and revise your work.
Led by acclaimed writing instructor Michael Noll, the workshop will examine excerpts from a few stories you may have read and some you likely haven’t discovered yet, covering writing strategies that you can apply to your own work.
The class is inspired by Michael’s time as the writer-in-residence at the Katherine Anne Porter House, where he helped organized workshops and craft lessons by writers such as Ron Carlson, Percival Everett, Carole Maso, Tim O’Brien, William Vollman, and Francine Prose. Michael has taken the best aspects of each class and integrated them into a workshop method that that left one student writing, “I’ve been in lots of workshops, a few brief encouraging ones with Joy Williams and Robert Stone, and have worked one on one with a few good writers, but I’ve gotten more from this than any workshop I can remember.”
For a preview of the workshop, check out these writing exercises at Michael’s website, readtowritestories.com.
An afternoon working on the craft of fiction at The Writing Barn is the perfect way to begin a long summer of writing.
About Michael: Michael Noll has been the writer-in-residence at the Katherine Anne Porter House and an assistant editor at Narrative Magazine. An experienced teacher of fiction and nonfiction, Michael created the magazine writing correspondence course at Texas State University, and his students have published work written for the class. His website, readtowritestories.com, publishes free writing exercises based on online stories and novel excerpts.
Michael’s own work has been published in American Short Fiction and The Owls, and he’s appeared as a storyteller at The Story Department, sponsored by The Austin Bat Cave. He’s currently at work on a novel.