Leonard Nash
Writing the Short Story
8 weeks: Mondays, February 4- March 24, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
$125 (Current MDC faculty and credit students: $95)

Workshop will take place at Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus
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About short story writing, Raymond Carver said, “Get in. Get out. Don't linger.  Go on.”  This fast-paced workshop will explore the process of writing the short story, beginning with the triggering image.  We’ll consider character development, narration, point of view, dialogue, scenes, settings, plot, conflict, and resolution, all with a focus on the efficient and lyrical use of language.  We’ll explore the notion that successful short stories are “shown” and not “told,” and we’ll consider to what extent short stories share more in common with poetry than with novels.  Students will write in class, discuss their writings, (and the work of published authors), and will write and revise at least one “short short” story and one short story.
NOTE: Text for course: Fast Fiction: Creating Fiction in Five Minutes by Roberta Allen (ISBN: 0-965-57296-X).  Please read through page 92 by the first class and bring the book to each session.

Leonard Nash is the author of You Can’t Get There from Here and Other Stories (Kitsune Books, 2007).  A South Florida native, Nash earned his M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Florida International University (FIU).  He is a freelance writer and editor and a former instructor of English at FIU.  His work has appeared in Miami Magazine, Gulf Stream Magazine, South Dakota Review, Seattle Review, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Potpourri, the food anthology Irrepressible Appetites (Rock Press, 2002), and elsewhere. 

Date and Time
Mondays
February 4- March 24, 2008
6:30-8:30 p.m.

Fee
$125, pre-registration required
(Current MDC faculty staff and students: $95)

This is a Community Education (non-credit) course.

Want to register? Click here for instructions and registration form.