Craft Seminar: Revision Intensive with Eula Biss
Craft Seminar: Revision Intensive with Eula Biss
1 Session: Sunday, August 24
3:00-5:30pm ET
Eula Biss
Eula Biss has been revising for the entire 21st century! She is the author of four books, most recently Having and Being Had and On Immunity: An Inoculation, a New York Times bestseller.
Revision is where the work of writing really happens, and revision demands not only skill, but stamina, strategy, and an understanding of process. This intensive is designed for writers with a draft already in progress and will include in-class revision exercises to help you build momentum. In addition to forwarding your work together, we’ll discuss some common challenges and explore strategies for overcoming obstacles. Ample time will be reserved for your questions and you’ll leave with a plan for ongoing revision. If you feel stuck or frustrated, this class is for you!
Writers should bring a short draft (500-2,000 words) or an excerpt from a longer draft to class. You won’t be asked to share this work with others, and it can be rough, incomplete, disastrously flawed, etc.
Workshop Highlights:
In-class revision exercises
Revision strategies for ongoing work
Your questions answered
This class has 5 full and 5 partial scholarships available. To apply for a scholarship, please fill out this form by Sunday, August 17.
Note: All class sessions will be recorded and this course can be taken asynchronously.
Eula Biss is the author of four books, most recently Having and Being Had (Riverhead Books, 2020.) A New York Times Editor’s Choice, it was named a Best Book of the Year by Time and NPR. Alexander Chee praised it as “A brilliant, lacerating re-examination of our relationship to what we own and why, and who in turn might own us in ways we didn’t know we consented to—what could be more necessary now?” Her previous book, On Immunity: An Inoculation (Graywolf Press, 2014) was a New York Times bestseller, and was named one of the Ten Best Books of 2014 by the New York Times Book Review, New York Magazine, Chicago Tribune, Publisher’s Weekly, the Los Angeles Times and more. Other books include Notes from No Man’s Land (Graywolf Press, 2009), winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism and the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, and The Balloonists (Hanging Loose Press, 2002). Her work has been translated into over ten languages and has been recognized by a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, a Howard Foundation Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award, a 21st Century Award from the Chicago Public Library, and a Pushcart Prize. Her essays and poems have recently appeared in the New Yorker, the Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, The Believer, Harper’s, and the New York Times Magazine.