12/14 Class - Airtight Plot in 5 Steps with Jessica Reidy - $28
Date: 12/14/22
Time: 2 pm - 4 pm PDT
Cost: $35/$28 for members
Class Level: All
Link and materials will be emailed at least 30 minutes before class.
Jessica Reidy will lead students in a workshop covering the structure of a short story, and how to use it to unleash your creative potential while still keeping the plot in check. If you struggle to keep your stories feeling tight and impactful, this workshop will teach you some industry guidelines to make meandering plots into meaningful tales. This workshop is generative, meaning that it will be part lecture and part in-person writing exercises. We will look at some very short examples of well-structured plots, and there will be some time to share parts of your own work written in-class if you wish.
Your Instructor: Jessica Reidy is a writer and educator with works in Narrative Magazine as Story of the Week, Prairie Schooner, The Kenyon Review online, and other publications. She is the winner of the Nancy Thorp Poetry Prize, the Penelope Nivens Award for Creative Nonfiction, and the Glenna Luschei Prize, and her work has been nominated for a Pushcart and Best of the Net. She is a co-host of Romanistan podcast alongside Paulina Verminski, which is a celebration of Roma, rebels, and roots. Under the name Jezmina Von Thiele, she is a dancer, healer, artist, art model, and fortune teller, dealing in tarot, palmistry, and tea leaves. She tells fortunes in her Roma/Sinti family’s tradition. She is a queer witch, and can be found at jessicareidy.com and jezminavonthiele.com.
Date: 12/14/22
Time: 2 pm - 4 pm PDT
Cost: $35/$28 for members
Class Level: All
Link and materials will be emailed at least 30 minutes before class.
Jessica Reidy will lead students in a workshop covering the structure of a short story, and how to use it to unleash your creative potential while still keeping the plot in check. If you struggle to keep your stories feeling tight and impactful, this workshop will teach you some industry guidelines to make meandering plots into meaningful tales. This workshop is generative, meaning that it will be part lecture and part in-person writing exercises. We will look at some very short examples of well-structured plots, and there will be some time to share parts of your own work written in-class if you wish.
Your Instructor: Jessica Reidy is a writer and educator with works in Narrative Magazine as Story of the Week, Prairie Schooner, The Kenyon Review online, and other publications. She is the winner of the Nancy Thorp Poetry Prize, the Penelope Nivens Award for Creative Nonfiction, and the Glenna Luschei Prize, and her work has been nominated for a Pushcart and Best of the Net. She is a co-host of Romanistan podcast alongside Paulina Verminski, which is a celebration of Roma, rebels, and roots. Under the name Jezmina Von Thiele, she is a dancer, healer, artist, art model, and fortune teller, dealing in tarot, palmistry, and tea leaves. She tells fortunes in her Roma/Sinti family’s tradition. She is a queer witch, and can be found at jessicareidy.com and jezminavonthiele.com.
Date: 12/14/22
Time: 2 pm - 4 pm PDT
Cost: $35/$28 for members
Class Level: All
Link and materials will be emailed at least 30 minutes before class.
Jessica Reidy will lead students in a workshop covering the structure of a short story, and how to use it to unleash your creative potential while still keeping the plot in check. If you struggle to keep your stories feeling tight and impactful, this workshop will teach you some industry guidelines to make meandering plots into meaningful tales. This workshop is generative, meaning that it will be part lecture and part in-person writing exercises. We will look at some very short examples of well-structured plots, and there will be some time to share parts of your own work written in-class if you wish.
Your Instructor: Jessica Reidy is a writer and educator with works in Narrative Magazine as Story of the Week, Prairie Schooner, The Kenyon Review online, and other publications. She is the winner of the Nancy Thorp Poetry Prize, the Penelope Nivens Award for Creative Nonfiction, and the Glenna Luschei Prize, and her work has been nominated for a Pushcart and Best of the Net. She is a co-host of Romanistan podcast alongside Paulina Verminski, which is a celebration of Roma, rebels, and roots. Under the name Jezmina Von Thiele, she is a dancer, healer, artist, art model, and fortune teller, dealing in tarot, palmistry, and tea leaves. She tells fortunes in her Roma/Sinti family’s tradition. She is a queer witch, and can be found at jessicareidy.com and jezminavonthiele.com.