Connie May Fowler
Three-day Workshop
Writing Great Scenes for Fiction and Nonfiction
Meets daily, Wednesday, May 5- Friday, May 7 | 2 to 5 p.m.

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MDC, Wolfson Campus

Participants will explore the nuances and craft issues involved in building vital scenes, including how to handle time, exposition, character development, and action within the individual moments that lead to full narratives. Manuscripts for workshop due April 6. Please e-mail 12 pages, identifying those scenes you feel worked well and those that didn’t. Please articulate your position. Limited to 15 students.

Facilitator
Connie May Fowler is a novelist, memoirist, and screenwriter. Her most recent work, How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly is forthcoming in April from Grand Central Publishing. The Problem with Murmur Lee, published in 2005 was chosen as Redbook’s premier book club selection. Other works include When Katie Wakes, a memoir that explores her descent and escape from an abusive relationship, Remembering Blue and Before Women had Wings, which she adapted for Oprah Winfrey, resulting in an Emmy-winning film. Her work has been translated into 15 languages and is published worldwide.

Date and Time
Meets daily, Wednesday, May 5- Friday, May 7 | 2 to 5 p.m.

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