My online craft intensive called Strange Places is running with McCormack Writing Center (formerly Tin House) on Sunday, May 17 and registration is now open!
Do you appreciate strange stories? Do you crave unsettling or otherworldly settings? Do you simply want an opportunity to spend a few hours writing something new? However you may define “strange” and whatever genre you write in, you’re invited to join me in May for a chance to embrace the oddities in your imagination and write.
STRANGE PLACES
with Nova Ren Suma
SUNDAY, MAY 17
11:00AM – 2:00PM Pacific (2:00PM – 5:00PM Eastern)
Online
$75
Spaces are limited!
You can attend live in Zoom or write along to the video later!
About the Class
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.
Scholarships
There is one scholarship available for this intensive. Scholarships are assigned via a random lottery that is held at least one week before the craft intensive. Please use this form with McCormack Writing Center to submit your name.