TOM JENKS is the cofounder and editor of Narrative Magazine. He is a former editor of Esquire, Gentlemen’s Quarterly, The Paris Review, and a senior editor at Scribners, where he edited Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden. With Raymond Carver, he edited AmericanShort Story Masterpieces. MORE INFO
  The Art of the Story: 4-Day Intensive Workshops for Short Story Writers, Novelists, and Authors of Creative Nonfiction —TO BE HELD VIRTUALLY—The class will meet every day for four days, and each participant will have one manuscript workshopped by the entire class and a second manuscript reviewed for an individual conference with Tom. A reading list of works by noted authors will be assigned ahead of time, and we will go into these works to study storytelling and the formal elements of fiction, including voice, point of view, characterization, imagery, plot, and theme. Attention will also be given to scene building, sentence making, and the dramatic movement of descriptive writing. The class will be conducted each day from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time, via Zoom, and the individual conferences will be conducted by phone in the afternoons each day. Enrollment limited to 12 participants. (Acceptance into the class will be based on evaluation of a submitted manuscript. Classes tend to fill prior to the application deadline, so early application is advised.) CLASS DATES July 27—30, 2023 Nov. 9—12, 2023 Application deadline: For the July class Apr. 30, 2023 For the Nov. class Aug. 1, 2023 To apply or receive more information: Please send an email to Workshops. WRITERS EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY TOM JENKS INCLUDE: Rick Bass Richard Bausch Ann Beattie T. Coraghessan Boyle Janet Burroway Robert Olen Butler Italo Calvino Michael Chabon Yoon Choi Frank Conroy Don DeLillo E. L. Doctorow Jennifer DuBois Andre Dubus Andre Dubus III Stuart Dybek Jennifer Egan Richard Ford William Gass Gail Godwin Donald Hall Jim Harrison Saidiya Hartman Charles Johnson Ken Kesey R. O. Kwon Min Jin Lee Bernard Malamud Anthony Marra Peter Matthiessen Jill McCorkle James Alan McPherson Arthur Miller Susan Minot Lorrie Moore Alice Munro Maud Newton Viet Thanh Nguyen Joyce Carol Oates Tim O’Brien Jayne Anne Phillips Hannah Pittard George Plimpton Padgett Powell Annie Proulx Kirstin Valdez Quade Mark Richard Tom Robbins Philip Roth James Salter Benjamin Alire Sáenz Sandra Scofield Bob Shacochis Lee Smith Debra Spark Robert Stone Gabriel Tallent Morgan Talty John Updike Katherine Vaz Madhuri Vijay Kurt Vonnegut John Edgar Wideman Joy Williams Tom Wolfe Tobias Wolff Richard Yates Tryphena Yeboah |
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