Setting is the foundation for any story. Whether you’re thinking about character, motivation, obstacles, plot, or the feelings you want to invoke in your reader, setting is where your entire story takes root. This one-session class expands on traditional ideas of setting as merely the where and when of story. Writers will acquaint themselves beyond typical conventions of setting through a short lecture and brief in-class readings. Writing prompts and in-class writing time will be intermixed throughout. Whether you’re writing a realistic story or an otherworldly one that might involve more world-building, you’ll leave this class with concrete tools to apply to your current project or your next one.
About Lacey N. Dunham
Lacey N. Dunham’s novel The Belles is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster / Atria in fall 2025. She has received support from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Sewanee Writers Conference as a Tennessee Williams scholar, and Catapult as a merit scholar. Her writing has been nominated to the Best American Short Stories and appears in Ploughshares, Witness, The Normal School, Southwest Review, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, among others, and she currently serves an editor for Necessary Fiction and Story. Visit her at laceyndunham.com.
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