CLASS IS FILLED!

Registration is rolling until September 25 at 11:59PM EST. No application is required (except for financial aid— Applications for financial aid are due September 21 at 5PM EST).

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

8 week class: Mondays 6-8PM EST 10/2, 10/9, 10/16, 10/23, 10/30, 11/6, 11/13, 11/20 (optional makeup date 11/27)

Great fiction is fashioned from an alchemy of craft knowledge and creative experimentation. In this course, students will acquire practical tools for writing fiction, while unpacking and exploring new ways to think about character, desire, structure, and contradiction. If some aspects of craft may illuminate your narrative, other craft rules are better off broken. Through generative exercises, multimodal prompts, short readings, and discussion, writers will consider what makes a story “work”—both technically, and artistically.

Ariel Delgado Dixon is the author of the novel Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You (Random House, 2022) and the forthcoming novel, Sourland. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in O: The Oprah Magazine, Kenyon Review, Mississippi Review, Idaho Review, LitHub, and elsewhere. She has received support from Yaddo, the Hemingway Writer-in-Residence Program in Ketchum, Idaho, and most recently served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin College. She lives in Philadelphia and works in farming.