Students must have taken at least three Writers Studio classes before registering for this class.

What attracts you to a given work of visual art? How does it speak to you and capture your imagination? How might you-as-writer borrow the persona and techniques used to create an intriguing piece of visual art to enlighten and invigorate your writing? This class will build on The Writers Studio teachings on persona narrator, mood, tone, and other elements of craft. This class is open to those who have completed two or more 8-week classes with The Writers Studio.

Class Structure & Details

Format: Weekly, unrecorded live classes via Zoom

What to Expect: During this two-hour, weekly Zoom class, we will discuss techniques used in a range of literary models. After the first class meeting, students put those techniques to use in a two-page exercise. Those exercises are shared via Google Drive and read aloud during class. Each student receives structured, oral feedback during class from at least three of their classmates and the teacher.

Who Can Join: This class is open to students who have taken at least three classes at The Writers Studio.

📌 Note: The Zoom sessions are highly interactive and designed to be a safe space for sharing fresh work, so they are not recorded.

Instructor

Writers Studio Teacher

Gail Ford

Gail, a graduate of Stanford, teaches poetry, fiction, essays, Art Speaks to Art, and CD Wright’s hybrid writing. Gail loves thinking, talking, and laughing with writers about writing, and welcomes all to “try this, try that” as a playful means to both deepen access to our material and engage the reader. Her work has appeared in the NOYO River ReviewCarquinez Review, Minotaur, and Northern Contours and has been anthologized in An Eye for an Eye Makes the Whole World Blind, and A Ghost at Heart's Edge, Stories and Poems of Adoption.

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