PROSE POEM » FLASH

Thursdays: June 19th, 26th, July 3rd

Applying poetic form and scansion to prose work, deep cut revision, establishing the frame, and a survey of experimental forms.

RADICAL REVISION

Sundays: June 22nd, 29th, July 6th

Three weeks of advanced editing techniques focusing on form, re-generation, surprise, shock, syntax, and narrative energy.

SHOWING UP

WRITING ACCOUNTABILITY

Write 15,000 words in three weeks, a novella in six weeks, a novel in three months. Daily goals, nightly deadlines with a word count upload, private conferences and exercises with generative methods.

THE SURREALIST LYRICAL ESSAY

Thursdays: July 24th, 31st, August 7th

Writing hybrid forms using surrealist techniques that blend autobiography and fiction. Finding the truth in imaginative leaps, fact as metaphor, fiction as repressed memory, and the uncanny doubling of every moment, are among the topics covered.

STUDIES IN SHADOW FORM

Sundays: July 27th, August 3rd & 10th

Deep study into theories and generative techniques around theories of the Uncanny and the Sublime, Spiritual and Carnal texts, “the secret story”, plot as gesture, margin, x-ray, and more.

MANUSCRIPT CONSULTING

Let’s discuss your novel, memoir, story/essay collection, and hybrid work at any stage—from starting idea generation, basic copyediting, to complete developmental manuscript editing.

We can start any time.