2 Sessions: Sundays, March 1 + 8
10:00am-12:00pm ET
Evanthia Bromiley

Evanthia Bromiley has published short fiction and creative nonfiction in AGNI, Prairie Schooner, and Five Points. Her debut novel, Crown, was published in June 2025. A graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, she is the 2025 Grace Paley Fellow for the Under the Volcano international residency in Tepoztlán, Mexico, as well as the recipient of scholarships from the Aspen Institute, a Lighthouse Fellowship, a Lisel Mueller scholarship, and Elizabeth George and Carol Houck-Smith awards. She has studied pedagogy with Harvard Project Zero and is interested in creating dynamic and engaging learning experiences for writers. Currently, she is traveling around the world.

Exceptional narrative turns are an intimate experience. We encounter emotions alongside a character, feel as she feels, move as she moves, and in the best scenes, experience moments of radical empathy. Reading scenes by Gabriela Cabazón Cámara, Lucia Berlin, Grace Paley, Dennis Johnson, Deborah Levy, Catherine Lacey and Percival Everett, we will analyze the distinctive turns that create, channel, and change energy in a work. We will then turn to the components of our own scenes, and revise using (among other techniques) power shifts, subtext, revelations, image, misdirection, and surrealism.

Workshop Highlights:

• Choose narrative material for scenes, based upon your character, their unique voice and world

• Employ specific craft tools to create, change and direct energy through narrative turns that surprise and enchant

• Analyze techniques to give a scene a beautiful and unique shape, practice opening and closing scenes

There are 2 scholarships available. To apply, please fill out this form by Friday, February 20.