Academy

This class will focus on the challenge of capturing scene when the physical space or events of the story are experienced in varied and sometimes contradictory ways by the characters.

A class on how to scaffold a novel. Looking at War and Peace, and other novels, as examples.

A class on writing topically: socio-politics in fiction. If fiction is the opposite of political or point-driven essay writing, which depends on public, quickly understood language based on consensual perception, how then can fiction effectively take on topicality without losing the deep strength of its subjective, intimate eye?

This workshop is about how to help the work we’re writing find what it needs within us, and how to allow language to find things for the sake of the work.

The legendary poetry teacher Martin Skoble, who has taught at Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn for over forty years, leads a Master Class inspired by his belief that "poetry is a communal experience, not to be closed off and isolated."

**This class is sold out. If you would like to be added to the waitlist, please email Megan Cummins at megan@apublicspace.org.**

What are facts? Why should fiction writers care about them?

A Master Class exploring the role of time in fiction, and a deep dive into E.M. Forster's famous adage: "In the novel, there is always the clock."