TELL IT LIKE IT IS: EXPERIMENTS IN STORYTELLING
Ages 16-29
Winter 2025, Online
In this online workshop, student fellows will share stories that matter to them through a variety of forms, from memoir and short fiction, to dramatic and literary monologues, to dramatic scenes and narrative poems. They'll examine the work of writers Sandra Cisneros, Edward P. Jones, Jamaica Kincaid, Joyce Carol Oates, Deb Olin Unferth, and others, and also read interviews with writers published in The Paris Review’s The Art of Fiction series. In discussion they'll consider different kinds of structure, characterization, and conflict. And they'll experiment with a range of approaches in their own work, drawing on personal experience, observation, and flights of imagination to express their own truths. They'll share their writing through in-class readings, inspiring each other, while each honing their own distinct voice. Fellows will end with a rich portfolio, and their work will be exhibited on the program website. Limited to 10 student fellows.
Alessandra Bautze is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, where she majored in writing and in film and media studies. She also holds an M.F.A. in Screenwriting from The University of Texas at Austin. She believes in the power of language to connect communities.