Award-winning novelist Christine Maul Rice will conduct a free fiction-writing workshop during the Flint Literary Festival, July 21-22, at the Flint Public Library.
Rice, award-winning author of Swarm Theory, will help writers discover their oral and written voices in the “Generative Writing Workshop.” The elements of scene – including point of view, character development, sense of place, plot – and other aspects of story will be emphasized so that students will learn how to incorporate basic storytelling principles, forms, and techniques into their own writing.
This class will be useful for writers at any level of experience who wish to start a new short story, essay, or novel chapter. Participants will read from published models and will write at the end of class.
The two-hour workshop will be July 22 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Admission into the free workshop is by application only and space is limited. The application deadline is July 7 by 5 p.m.
In applying, applicants will be asked to state why they are interested in the workshop, and submit a brief biography and a writing sample of up to 250 words. To apply, go www.flintliteraryfestival.org/fiction-workshop-application.
Accepted applicants will be notified by email by July 14. (The Flint Literary Festival board will make entrance decisions for this workshop.)
Rice’s debut novel Swarm Theory was recently named a finalist in the Chicago Writers Association Best Books of 2016, won an Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY), won a National Indie Excellence Award, and was included in Powell’s Books Midyear Roundup, the Best Books of 2016 So Far. Her short stories have been published in The Literary Review, American University of Beirut’s Rusted Radishes, F Magazine, and online in Roanoke Review, Chicago Literati, and Bird’s Thumb, among others.
She teaches creative writing at Columbia College Chicago, and is the managing editor of Hypertext Magazine and director of Hypertext Studio Writing Center.
The Flint Literary Festival is a partnership between Gothic Funk Press, the Flint Public Library and East Village Magazine. It was created with the goal of lifting together the literary communities of Flint.
For information about the festival, please visit FlintLiteraryFestival.org.