Stuck on where to take your short story or novel? Bored of the typical workshop critique format? In this course, we’ll undergo unique revision exercises to refuel your imagination and broaden/extend your short story or novel chapters. After four weeks, you’ll have a deeper understanding of your plot and characters, several new drafts of your story, new ideas for where to take your piece, and greater ease with sharing your work. Students will be expected to prepare a short presentation of their story for the class — this can include reading from your work and a short description of the plot & characters. Each class will open with a student presentation, then move into revision exercises with in-class writing time.
About Jade Song
Jade Song is a writer and artist based in New York City. Lauded as “visionary and disturbing,” her debut novel Chlorine was selected as a New York Times Editor’s Choice, awarded the ALA Alex Award and the Writer’s Center First Novel Prize, and translated into four languages. Song’s second novel, I Love You Don’t Die, will be published in March 2026, and their debut short story collection, Ox Ghost Snake Demon, is forthcoming in 2027, both from William Morrow. Their short stories, essays, and creative nonfiction have appeared in literary magazines like Joyland, Missouri Review, Literary Hub, Teen Vogue, and Electric Literature, among others; Song has been a featured speaker, teacher, or presenter at The Writer’s Center, Amherst College, Tin House, The Miami Book Fair, Ellipsis Writing, The Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Montclair Literary Festival, and elsewhere.
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