1 Session: Tuesday, November 10
6:00-8:00pm ET
Michael Zapata

This master class is taught by award winning novelist and editor Michael Zapata, author of The Lost Book of Adana Moreau, Best Book of the Year for NPR, the A.V. Club, Los Angeles Public Library, among others. He is the recipient of the Meier Foundation Artist Achievement Award and the DAG Prize for Literature. In Axios, Michael Zapata’s novel The Lost Book of Adana Moreau was called a “crucial work in the growing Latinofuturism movement.”

To research for a novel, Michael Zapata traveled to the Amazon rainforests in Brazil to shadow the work of entomologists. What followed was a deep dive inquiry not only into the strange and complex lives of ants, but also into the lives of indigenous scientists, revolutionaries, the mysteries of literary craft, and the writers of Latin America. In this masterclass, Michael Zapata will guide writers through the critical and magical practice of real-world research that both layers fiction writing and takes advantage of the wonderful discoveries and possibilities that research itself contains. The class will also include a Q&A.

Workshop Highlights:

• Learn strategies for researching fiction: how to build your research plan; where to begin and end; how to organize your material.

• Students will walk away with a greater understanding of how to implement research methods and techniques into their own work.

• Advice on how to research in the world at large, including interviews, collecting material, and even travel.

This class has 1 full scholarship available. To apply, please fill out this form by Sunday, November 1.