Writing Co-Lab

Has your writing hit a plateau? Are you stuck in the murky middle? Or maybe you are sitting on perfectly competent stories that still feel like they're missing something? You’re getting complacent, or you know in your gut you've been holding back. Remove the safety net in this high level course for the dedicated fiction writer. This month-long workshop will explore strategies to increase the risk in our writing: destabilizing, unsettling, and pushing our work closer to the bone in an effort to excavate its most honest, urgent, and vital truths. This intimate, supportive live class on zoom will require active participation, with an accompanying asynchronous slack for prompts, craft materials and additional community discussion. While there will be generative opportunities, the focus of this workshop is revision with an eye toward publication. Each student will have the opportunity to receive thorough oral and written feedback (on stories up to 20 pages) 2 times.

Sara Lippmann is the author of the novel Lech and the story collections Doll Palace and Jerks. Her fiction has been honored by the New York Foundation for the Arts, and her essays have appeared in The Millions, The Washington Post, Catapult, The Lit Hub and elsewhere. With Seth Rogoff, she is co-editor of the anthology Smashing the Tablets: Radical Retellings of the Hebrew Bible forthcoming from SUNY Press. She is a founding member of the Writing Co-Lab, and lives with her family in Brooklyn.