Registration is rolling until June 24 at 11:59PM EST. No application is required (except for financial aid— Applications for financial aid are due June 19 at 5PM EST).

$400 w/financial aid available to residents of Greater Philadelphia (Bucks, Camden, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia Counties)

8 week class: Thursdays 6-8PM EST 6/29, 7/6, 7/13, 7/20. 7/27, 8/3, 8/10, 8/17 (w/ optional make up date of 8/24)

In this class, we will focus on authorial voice and characters' voices in fiction. In the first five sessions we will take a generative and craft-focused look at: how authors use craft to build a unique tone in their work, how to employ first person, how to write in second person, how to grow as third person POV writer, and how to enhance the dialogue in participants' fiction. Participants will then be encouraged to expand one of the exercises they worked on in class; in the last three sessions they will workshop these exercises as a group, focusing primarily on voice, but also on other aspects of the work. The workshop model will be Writer Led, meaning that we will focus on the goals and motivations behind the stories, and will provide ample space for discussion between the writer and their colleagues.

Eshani Surya is the author of RAVISHING, forthcoming from Roxane Gay Books/Grove Atlantic in 2024. Her short stories and essays have appeared in The Rumpus, DIAGRAM, [PANK], Catapult, and Joyland, among others. Eshani is a 2022 Asian Women Writer’s Workshop mentee, a 2022 Kenyon Review Writer’s Workshop scholarship recipient, and a 2021 Mae Fellowship recipient. She also works as the Programs and Operations Coordinator at Blue Stoop, a literary non-profit in Philadelphia. Find her online at http://eshani-surya.com