Online class, Zoom • Thursday, May 28, 2020
Maisy Card's novel, These Ghosts Are Family, started out as short stories. How did she and her editor go about stitching separate stories together into a cohesive novel? What was their working process? Using examples from the novel, we will explore the editorial process that went into transforming a collection of stories into a debut novel.A Public Space is an independent, non-profit publisher of the award-winning literary and arts magazine; and A Public Space Books. Since 2006, under the direction of founding editor Brigid Hughes the mission of A Public Space has been to seek out and support overlooked and unclassifiable work.
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