8/6 Series - Creative Writing Boot Camp with Oksana Marafioti (4 Fridays) - $245/$196 For Members
Date: 8/6, 8/13, 8/20, 8/27
Time: 4:30pm - 6:30pm PDT
Cost: $245/$196 for members
Class Level: All
This is a face-paced course meant to boost your creative writing craft skills. Learn how to build a compelling narrative, strong characters, and interesting dialogue. Polish your manuscript by adding tension, pacing, voice, conflict, world-building, and much more. Perfect for emerging writers and for anyone looking for a refresher.
Your Instructor: Oksana Marafioti is the author of American Gypsy: A Memoir (FSG, 2012). Her writings have appeared in Rumpus, Slate, and Time magazines, literary journals The Fairy Tale Review and Pilgrimage, and in several anthologies. Oksana was the 2013 BMI - Library of Congress Literary Award Recipient. In 2016, she was the U.S. Government-sponsored literary ambassador to the Czech Republic. She was the 2020 recipient of the Picador Excellence in Literature Award from the University of Leipzig, Germany. A classically trained pianist, Oksana also holds a B.S. in Cinematography and an MFA in Creative Writing.
Date: 8/6, 8/13, 8/20, 8/27
Time: 4:30pm - 6:30pm PDT
Cost: $245/$196 for members
Class Level: All
This is a face-paced course meant to boost your creative writing craft skills. Learn how to build a compelling narrative, strong characters, and interesting dialogue. Polish your manuscript by adding tension, pacing, voice, conflict, world-building, and much more. Perfect for emerging writers and for anyone looking for a refresher.
Your Instructor: Oksana Marafioti is the author of American Gypsy: A Memoir (FSG, 2012). Her writings have appeared in Rumpus, Slate, and Time magazines, literary journals The Fairy Tale Review and Pilgrimage, and in several anthologies. Oksana was the 2013 BMI - Library of Congress Literary Award Recipient. In 2016, she was the U.S. Government-sponsored literary ambassador to the Czech Republic. She was the 2020 recipient of the Picador Excellence in Literature Award from the University of Leipzig, Germany. A classically trained pianist, Oksana also holds a B.S. in Cinematography and an MFA in Creative Writing.
Date: 8/6, 8/13, 8/20, 8/27
Time: 4:30pm - 6:30pm PDT
Cost: $245/$196 for members
Class Level: All
This is a face-paced course meant to boost your creative writing craft skills. Learn how to build a compelling narrative, strong characters, and interesting dialogue. Polish your manuscript by adding tension, pacing, voice, conflict, world-building, and much more. Perfect for emerging writers and for anyone looking for a refresher.
Your Instructor: Oksana Marafioti is the author of American Gypsy: A Memoir (FSG, 2012). Her writings have appeared in Rumpus, Slate, and Time magazines, literary journals The Fairy Tale Review and Pilgrimage, and in several anthologies. Oksana was the 2013 BMI - Library of Congress Literary Award Recipient. In 2016, she was the U.S. Government-sponsored literary ambassador to the Czech Republic. She was the 2020 recipient of the Picador Excellence in Literature Award from the University of Leipzig, Germany. A classically trained pianist, Oksana also holds a B.S. in Cinematography and an MFA in Creative Writing.