Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Four-day Workshop
Revision for Fiction and Nonfiction
Meets daily, Wednesday, May 6 - Saturday, May 9 | 9 a.m. - noon

MDC, Wolfson Campus

This workshop focuses on understanding the stories or chapters written by the participants, re-visioning them, analyzing their current structures and then polishing them through a review of the exposition, development of characters, dialogue, setting and point of view. Students will leave the workshop with a better sense of their strengths and weaknesses, and strategies for improvement. Limited to 15 students. Manuscripts for workshops due April 6.

Facilitator
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning author and poet who has been translated into 16 languages. She has been published in more than 50 magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker. She is the author of 13 books, including The Palace of Illusions. Divakaruni teaches creative writing at the University of Houston.

Date and Time
Meets daily, Wednesday, May 6 - Saturday, May 9 | 9 a.m. - noon

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