Description
The core of the Berlin Writers' Workshop, Creative Writing I is open to all writers regardless of experience or background. This intensive class format will take place over two consecutive weekends. Through a combination of readings, craft lessons, and weekly discussions, we'll cover the basic elements of fiction and nonfiction: point of view, characterization, setting, scene and summary, and style. We'll share and discuss our favorite books and learn generative exercises to help inspire new work. We'll also workshop each other’s manuscripts and discuss strategies for revision and editing.
Creative Writing I is designed to benefit both beginning and advanced writers. Whether you recently completed a draft of a novel or just want to connect with other writers and bibliophiles, you are welcome in this class.
This class is taught in English.
Details
May Online Section
May 25th & 26th; June 1st and 2nd
10:00am - 12:30 EST (New York time)
4:00 pm-6:30pm CET (Berlin time)
Instructor: Kannan Mahadevan
Location: Online
Cost: 170€
June CWI In-Person Intensive
June 1st & 8th
11:00am - 16:00 with lunch break
Instructor: Gurmeet Singh
Location: Berlin
Cost: 170€
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Testimonials
Best in the business...
“The instructors at the Berlin Writers' Workshop are among the best in the business: brilliant writers, thorough editors, thoughtful teachers, and insightful critics. That all this literary talent has descended on Berlin is tremendously exciting.”
— Carmen Maria Machado, author, Her Body and Other Parties
Enormously helpful...
"Whether offering me practical guidance about how to restructure a story, recommending a book or essay that I might find useful, or simply encouraging me to keep going, their intelligence and mentorship have helped me and my writing enormously."
— Ariel Lewiton, Director of Marketing and Publicity, Sarabande Books
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