Dorothy Allison
Four-day Workshop
Story Intensive
Meets daily, Wednesday, May 5 - Saturday, May 8 | 9 a.m. to noon

MDC, Wolfson Campus

A highly focused workshop for writers concentrating on narrative—whether fiction or memoir. For the purposes of this workshop, the assumption is that the work must work as story with a strong voice and smoothly rendered action. The goal of the workshop will be to strengthen those qualities as well as address the story arc, and how well the writing achieves the goals of the writer. Submit an original short story or section of a novel chapter (maximum 12 pages, double-spaced, 12 point type) by April 6.

Facilitator
Dorothy Allison is the author of the novel Bastard Out of Carolina, a finalist for the 1992 National Book Award, which was made into a highly acclaimed film, directed by Angelica Huston. She is also the author of the novel Cavedweller, a national best seller and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, which was also made into a film, as well as the memoir Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, the collection of essays, Skin: Talking About Sex, Class and Literature, the collection of short fiction, Trash, and a book of poems, The Women Who Hate Me.

Allison has been a writer in residence at Emory in Atlanta, Columbia College in Chicago, and this year is the McGee professor in creative writing at Davidson College in North Carolina.

Date and Time
Meets daily, Wednesday, May 5- Saturday, May 8 | 9 a.m. to noon

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