Fiction writers… I have a new online craft intensive with Tin House! Want a generative opportunity to delve into crafting fantastical, haunted, hallucinatory, or just simply strange settings? This is the class.
Registration is now open, spots are limited, and here are the details:
Tin House Craft Intensives
Strange Places with Nova Ren Suma
Sunday, July 13
10 AM – 1 PM PST (1 PM – 4 PM EST)
Online
This generative fiction intensive will delve into crafting fantastical, haunted, hallucinatory, or just simply strange settings that stem from the world around us and the world of untapped ideas inside your own mind. Through sensory-infused worldbuilding exercises, spot-lit excerpts from mentor texts, and generative writing opportunities, we will explore magical, unsettling, and uncanny settings on the page and consider the ways they can be used in fiction to heighten tension, reveal secrets, suspend disbelief, and illuminate characters. From the infamous places found on maps to those lifted from the depths of your imagination, we will look into how setting can act as a character, and how to choose details that bring an unfamiliar place to resonant life. If you want to ground your stories with strikingly memorable settings and journey into more unusual places in your work, this class is an opportunity to forage for ideas, experiment with possibilities, and turn the otherworldly into a tangible place that serves your story. Fiction writers of all genres and those writing for all age levels are welcome. A brief collection of reading will be shared before class, and writers should come to the session ready to write.
One scholarship is available for this intensive.