In Person
With 7 Fridays 1-3 PM EST (1/24, 1/31, 2/7, 2/14, off, 2/28, 3/7, 3/14)
This is an advanced class for writers who are well into their books. We will focus on inching closer to your final page, even if you have no idea what your ending will be. To make progress, you will decide on a personal writing goal each week—a number of words, a brainstorm, an epilogue, a whole chapter or possibly more. Forward motion is the goal. Nothing you write has to be brilliant-—it just has to get done. We will celebrate every inch of progress!
In this class, you can expect:
This class is open for registration by permission of the instructor only. If you are new to this course, a short manuscript submission is required (5-8 pages). Please click this form.
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WHERE:
IN PERSON at 25 Sylvan Road South, Unit J, Westport, CT 06880
Level: Intermediate/Advance
Cara Wall is a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and Stanford University. While at Iowa, Cara taught fiction writing in the undergraduate creative writing department as well as at the Iowa Young Writer’s Studio in her capacity of founder and inaugural director. Her first novel, The Dearly Beloved, was a Read with Jenna book club selection, one of Entertainment Weekly’s 10 best debut novels, and a New York Times Editor’s Choice. For her writing about faith, marriage, and family from multiple points of view, Cara was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, earned a 2021 Wilbur Award, and was the 2021 The Ragdale Foundation Hannah Judy Gretz Fellow. She lives with her family in New York City and Redding, Connecticut.
