Get help finishing your memoir, novel or short story collection
A six week Zoom CRAFT INTENSIVE, starting March 13
I’ll be teaching a six week online craft workshop — which includes revision guidance and personalized critiques — through Key West Literary Seminar.
Classes start Thursday March 13 and run until April 17, 5:30 - 7:30 pm EST.
What's the #1 reason new writers fail? They never complete their projects.
This lively and informative deep dive into craft will help you finish a first draft to be be proud of, or offer you the refresher you need to polish your work so it's primed for pitching to agents and editors.
In each class we'll discuss one of five critical craft elements that can make or break a book-length project. In order to learn by doing, you'll engage in textual analysis of short excerpts from published books and do generative exercises.
To familiarize myself with your project and goals, I'll read ten pages of your work. Before the final session you’ll resubmit those pages to me, having implemented the knowledge you gained during class. You will receive written feedback on your revised pages to help you sharpen your work further (there is no workshopping during class).
Come expecting to share your ideas and questions in spirited conversations. This craft intensive is open to short story, novel and memoir writers, and is suitable for all levels. Class size is limited; apply now to save your spot.
The cost is $520 for six sessions, and includes individualized written feedback on your work.
What's the #1 reason new writers fail? They never complete their projects.
During this workshop, you will:
dive into a different craft element each week, including characterization, dialogue, voice, setting and structure
read and discuss excerpts from a variety of successful published work to help you see those craft elements in action
generate new writing based on in-class prompts, or edit existing work
learn revision strategies – and put those techniques into practice
receive thoughtful written feedback on a polished piece of writing (up to ten pages, double spaced)
be part of a writing community, developing momentum for your project and confidence in your abilities.
More about me…
Katrin is the bestselling author of the novels The Forgotten Hours and This Terrible Beauty. She is the program coordinator for the Key West Literary Seminar.
For the past twenty years, Katrin has been teaching writing—in Key West at KWLS and The Studios of Key West, at GrubStreet in Boston, and in the MA prison system through PEN New England. She co-developed and ran “The Launch Lab,” helping authors promote their work. Before going freelance, she worked at NPR, where she won the Kogan Media Award.
Katrin’s work has been featured on TODAY and Talk of the Nation, and in the London Times and other national and international media outlets. She writes a free newsletter about creativity called The Curious Kat, with a bi-weekly installment, “Anatomy of a Novel,” that delves into her writing process.