Take your dialogue to the next level with this online three-week intensive course. Good dialogue does not mimic regular speech. It brings rhythm to the page, characterizes, sets the scene, advances plot, and creates immediacy in your storytelling. Over the three weeks, you’ll learn the mechanics of what makes dialogue flow on the page and how to make your characters sound natural or realistic. We’ll do this by studying novel excerpts, scripts, and craft books. By the end of the course, you’ll be able to apply new techniques that improve the dialogue in your own fiction.
About Afabwaje Kurian
Afabwaje Kurian is the author of the novel BEFORE THE MANGO RIPENS, which was a finalist for the 2025 Aspen Words Literary Prize and longlisted for the 2025 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. She received her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her short fiction has appeared in Guernica, McSweeney’s, Call
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