Classes
ONSITE: Close Reading: Fiction Writing Workshop (Only offered a few times a year!)
For writers of fiction, this class will be part craft discussion, part workshop, part generative space. Each week, we will close-read a short story and discuss the craft elements being used like point of view, subject juxtaposition, braided structure, dialogue as story and more. We'll then use those elements in our own work. You will either write one longer short story, or several shorter works depending on your preference.
Special Notes
- This class will not meet on 4/6.
Students will need tools for writing in class, such as laptop/tablet, notebook, pens, etc, as well as internet access to receive assigned reading material outside of class.
Classes are confirmed one week prior to the start date. In order to help us confirm classes, please register as early as possible.
This is an On-site course. Students must follow current Covid-19 protocols, as outlined on our website. For more info visit visarts.org. On-site courses do not come with studio access outside of class time. Paid open studio access is available through our Studio Access Program: if interested please visit visarts.org.
About the Instructor
April Sopkin
April Sopkin's work appears in Carve Magazine, Southern Indiana Review, The Southampton Review, failbetter, SAND Journal, and elsewhere. Her work has won the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest, the Patricia Aakhus Award, and the Frank McCourt Memoir Prize, and been supported by fellowships and artist residencies from the Tin House Summer Workshop, Norman Mailer Center, Hypatia-in-the-Woods, Jentel, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She received a dual-genre MFA in fiction and nonfiction from Virginia Commonwealth University.
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