crafting the short story

JCAS's(jersey city art school) newest writers' course is focusing on short fiction. Each participant will, over the span of 4 weeks, complete a draft of a short story and receive feedback on it from the rest of the group. We will review techniques as they are used by past masters of the craft, then apply them to our own work.

Register here: http://jcartschool.com/writing.html

Wednesdays from 7:30 to 9:30 PM, beginning Feb. 9th. See you there, and please spread the word!

Amanda
326 5th street

writer's seminar week 4: sound and sensibility

JC art school, monday 9/ 13,  7.30 - 9.30 pm

At the heart of much great writing is the balance between “sound and sense,” Alexander Pope told us—and in this session we will see how good prosody (meter and rhymes in a proscribed order) will, like the lyrics of a song, elevate the sentiments you want to convey. This discussion will focus primarily on poetry; poets discussed will include W.H. Auden, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and John Donne. Participants are also encouraged to ...bring in and share poems they have written.
hosted by Amanda Nazario

Fee: $10 suggested donation

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The JCAS Writers’ Seminar meets every Monday from 7:30 to 9:30 PM to discuss authors and their craft, with a view toward how to implement effective literary techniques in your own writing.

writer´s seminar week 3, " the beautiful sentence"

August 30 · 7:30pm - 9:30pm,  JC Art school, 326 5th street
This talk will set out to create an appreciation for sentence architecture—necessarily in prose, though we will also discuss lines of poetry that accomplish a similar end. How important is that first sentence in a short story, really? What sets a great sentence apart from a merely good one? Through textual analysis of authors from Gertrude Stein to Jonathan Lethem, and an in-session exercise, we will attempt to turn a plain stat...ement into a piece of art.
hosted by Amanda Nazario


Fee: $10 suggested donation
The JCAS Writers’ Seminar meets every Monday from 7:30 to 9:30 PM to discuss authors and their craft, with a view toward how to implement effective literary techniques in your own writing.

writers seminar, multiplicity

aug 23, 7.30 - 9.30  JC Art school  326 5th street

This week we will experiment with multiplicity. Authors often “stuff” their work to make it more illusive or fantastic, and popular genres like magical realism and hysterical realism, as well as multimodal or hybrid texts, demonstrate this: we have many settings, myriad characters, a wealth of contexts in which to see the same situation. We will delve into the advantages of showing the reader these diverse facets, enjoying some ...examples in the work of Jorge Luis Borges, Robert Coover, John Dos Passos, and others. An optional writing exercise will be assigned.
hosted by Amanda Nazario

Fee: $10 suggested donation

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The JCAS Writers’ Seminar meets every Monday from 7:30 to 9:30 PM to discuss authors and their craft, with a view toward how to implement effective literary techniques in your own writing.