Workshop: Short Forms with Andrea Lawlor
Workshop: Short Forms with Andrea Lawlor
3 Sessions: Sundays, July 5, 12, 19
1:00-3:00pm ET
Andrea Lawlor
Andrea Lawlor is the author of the novel Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl (Vintage), and two chapbooks of prose poems, Position Papers Vol. 1 (Factory Hollow Press) and Position Papers Vol. 2 (Belladonna*). Their stories, essays, and poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The Brooklyn Rail, jubilat, and The New York Times. They are the recipient of a Whiting Award for Fiction and the Prix Sade, as well as fellowships from Lambda Literary, the Ucross Foundation, and MacDowell. They teach creative writing at Mount Holyoke College and live in Western Massachusetts.
In this hands-on workshop, we will explore short forms including prose poetry, micro essays, flash fiction, fables, parables, and more. We will encounter examples of published work and make our own pieces. We will focus our attention on language, precision, compression, the turn. Together, we will investigate how the constraint of length might create the aesthetic and political effects we desire. While this will be a mostly generative space, there will be opportunities to share your work and receive feedback.
Workshop Highlights:
Generative! You'll write something in every session, with optional assignments between sessions as well.
Genre-agnostic! We'll tarry in the fields of poetry, prose, and hybrid forms.
Open to all! This workshop is designed for emerging and experienced writers.
This class has 2 full scholarships and 2 partial scholarships available. To apply, please fill out this form by Friday, June 26.
Andrea Lawlor is the author of a chapbook, Position Papers (Factory Hollow Press, 2016), and a novel, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl (Rescue Press, 2017; Vintage, 2019; Picador UK, 2019). Their stories, essays, and poems have appeared in publications such as Ploughshares, The Brooklyn Rail, jubilat, and The New York Times. They are the recipient of a Whiting Award for Fiction, as well as fellowships from Lambda Literary, Radar Labs, the Ucross Foundation, and Macdowell Colony. They are an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Mount Holyoke College, and live in Western Massachusetts.
