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Story Starter
Introductory / Intermediate | Getting started can be the hardest part. Whether you want to write your life story or create a fantasy realm for a novel, you likely have great ideas—but may not know how to begin. This class offers exercises to help you generate "starts" to your stories, as well as craft discussions about how to launch stories and keep them going. We'll discuss published samples, and you'll leave with ample written work—and a plan for where to go next.
Instructor: Susan Meyers
Susan Meyers
Susan V. Meyers has lived and taught in Chile, Costa Rica, and Mexico. She earned an MFA from the University of Minnesota and a PhD from the University of Arizona, and she currently directs the Creative Writing Program at Seattle University. Her fiction and nonfiction have been supported by grants from the Fulbright foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, 4Culture, Artist Trust, and the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, as well as several artists residencies. Her novel Failing the Trapeze won the Nilsen Award for a First Novel and the Fiction Attic Press Award for a First Novel, and it was a finalist for the New American Fiction Award. Other work has recently appeared in Per Contra, Calyx, Dogwood, The Portland Review, and The Minnesota Review, and it has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.