[ fiction, summer 2022 ]
Sustaining Tension in Fiction, with K. Ho
6 weeks long = $480 total
june 22—july 27
meets wednesdays from 7:30-9:30pm eastern time
virtual (Zoom + Google Docs)
What makes a story taut? How do we manipulate the elements of our stories to raise the stakes and increase dramatic tension? This six-week online workshop will explore tools to enhance and animate our fiction. In addition to regular workshopping of two participants per week, we will read assigned stories and discuss craft choices employed by their authors, paying close attention to techniques used in beginnings, middles, and ends. We will also examine hooks, expectations, overt and covert tensions, choices, clocks, causality, one-way doors, sentence construction, POV, and voice. Our reading list will include Jhumpa Lahiri, Bryan Washington, Carmen Maria Machado, Jennifer Egan, and more. All levels welcome; stories and novels welcome.
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K Ho is a writer and photographer hailing from Vancouver BC, unceded Coast Salish territory. Their lyric essay “Dispatches” won The Fiddlehead’s 2021 Creative Nonfiction Contest, and their poetry has appeared in PRISM Magazine, THEM lit, and elsewhere. They are currently an MFA candidate in fiction at the University of Minnesota.
