Fine Arts Work Center In Provincetown

2024 Summer Workshops

Ivy Pochoda The Novel from Beginning to End June 24 to June 29, 2018 Tuition: $600 Workshop: 9am-Noon Discipline: Fiction OPEN TO ALL On-site Housing Available

This workshop is for students at all stages in the process of writing their novels. In order to write, we must be able to imagine our novels as one day being complete—we must be able to talk about them, share them, interrogate them, and revise them. In this workshop we will look at various ways of outlining, shaping, and reshaping our novels-in-progress. We will examine our opening chapters and discuss what expectations they establish for the work that is to follow. If you are just beginning your novel, if you’ve written a draft and need to take a step back, or if you are going back to the drawing board this workshop is appropriate for you.

For the first class please bring a “creative” outline of your novel, and two books: one that inspires you and one that is similar to the book you are writing. Your creative outline can be as formal or as informal as you wish—from a traditional bullet point document, to a timeline, to a moodboard, to a collage or drawing.

Biography

Ivy Pochoda is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Wonder Valley and Visitation Street. Wonder Valley won The Strand Magazine Critics Award for Best Novel and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Southern California Independent Booksellers Award, as well as the Grand Prix de Litterature Americaine in France. Visitation Street received the Page America Prize in France and was chosen as an Amazon Best Book of 2013 and a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers series.