Mondays, June 2 - July 21, 2008
The Short Story is NOT Dying: A Writing Workshop
with Neelanjana Banerjee
All eight sessions meet Mondays, 7 - 9pm, at KSW's space180, 180 Capp Street, @17th Street, San Francisco.
Please note: all multi-session KSW workshops include a public reading and chapbook publication following the final workshop session, coordinated and scheduled by KSW with the workshop participants.
Class Description:
The rumor on the street is that the short story is under the weather. Stephen King wrote a poor
diagnosis for this creative form in the New York Times last year: “Current condition stable, but apt to deteriorate in the years ahead.” But we may have the cure: recognizing the storyteller inside of us. As soon as we start putting verbs together with nouns—usually around age three—we begin structuring the world around us into stories. In this fiction workshop, we will expand on our natural abilities to tell stories by:
- Investigating the universe without and within.
- Reading/interacting with plethora of
genres/texts (i.e. flash fiction, ancient poetry, screenplays, newspaper articles, instruction manuals, 80s cartoons, Shostakovich, Young Guns, etc.)
- Experimenting with writing both in class and at home.
- Sharing and discussing and supporting each others work.
By the end of the class, students will have a rough draft of a short story and lots of great ideas for other ones. This class will invigorate your storytelling capacity and in turn prove, that at
least for eight weeks this summer, the short story iss—in facts—alive and well. Note: This class is intended for all levels.
Registration fee is $215 regular, $195 for KSW members. Class is capped at 14 registrants; first come, first serve basis. To register by check, please send a check or money order for full amount to KSW, 180 capp street #5, san francisco, ca 94110, and include your full name and contact info:
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About the instructor:
Neelanjana Banerjee has worked in the media for the past eight years. The former editor-in-chief of AsianWeek newspaper, she currently works as the editor of YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, where she helps young people tell their stories. She is also the managing editor of Hyphen magazine. She received her MFA in fiction from San Francisco State University in 2007 and will be attending a writing residency at Hedgebrook in fall of 2008. Her writing has been published in the Asian Pacific American Journal, A Room of One’s Own, Nimrod, Suspect Thoughts,
Digital Artifact and the anthology Desilicious (Arsenal Press).
Contact Ellen Oh at 415.503.0520 or ellen@kearnystreet.org for more information.
