Deep reading and insightful questions are the hallmarks of this course. If you have previous workshop experience and are well along on your fiction-writing journey, this 6-week workshop might be for you. Participants of the class should come in with a well-honed understanding of point of view, character, and narrative tension. We’ll explore such questions as: Does your story hook readers in? Do your characters live and breathe? If the course sounds like a good fit, please apply by submitting a one-page summary outlining your previous fiction experience, plus the first fifteen pages (double-spaced, 12 pt. font, pages numbered) of a piece of fiction you’ve written. Send these by June 22, 2026 to laura.spencer@writer.org. Participants will be notified within five days of the submission deadline and should register for the course upon notification.
About Virginia Hartman
VIRGINIA HARTMAN is the author of the novel The Marsh Queen (Gallery/Simon & Schuster). Her writing has appeared in the Washingtonian, Hudson Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Potomac Review, Sligo Journal, Bluebird City, Delmarva Review, and Beltway Poetry Quarterly, among others. With Barbara Esstman, she edited the literary anthology A More Perfect Union: Poems and Stories about the Modern Wedding (St. Martin’s Press). She teaches creative writing at George Washington University.
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