| The Lie That Tells The Truth: The Art of Fiction | |
| Location: 1163 Medical Education and Research Facility (MERF) - room 3112 on 4/27 | |
| Dates: Mondays, Apr 6 - May 4, 3:00 - 5:00 PM | |
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| Class size limit: 12 | |
| Cost: $50 | |
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| Fiction writers lie. They tell all their characters’ secrets. They show them at their messiest and worst. But these lies and betrayals, in a great story, reveal truths about human nature, life, the way we live and are. So how does a writer create a fiction with emotion and grit? How does a person make up a story that has real blood and guts, that viscera of experience? In this course, we’ll address and complicate these questions by exploring contemporary fiction, focusing on literary writing as opposed to genre work (i.e.-fomance, children’s, detective, horror, etc.). Together with our own personal experiences, we will make up stories that communicate our real knowing.
Participants will read, write, share, and comment on stories that are generated by in- and out-of-class exercises and discussion.
INSTRUCTOR: Rachel Yoder holds a BA in English from Georgetown University, an MFA in Fiction from the University of Arizona (UA), and is currently an Iowa Arts Fellow in the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa. She has taught fiction at UA and Prescott College in northern Arizona, in addition to community writing courses at a women's drug and alcohol rehab facility. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Sun Magazine, Cimarron Review, Quick Fiction, and elsewhere. | |