🗓 8 classes from September 17 - November 5

🕰️ 2.5-hour sessions, Tuesdays 6pm-8:30pm

🗺 Location: 578 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn, NY

💰 Tuition: Pay anything within the range of $100 (scholarship) to $450 (standard) to $800 (accelerator: includes four one-on-one calls with the instructor for coaching and direct feedback). Standard tuition is based on comparable classes in NYC and apparent demand for this class. A portion pays for the space rental and Fractal U’s Cross-Pollination Fund.

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✍️ Class size: 15

📋 Application: https://forms.gle/n2vTZxCFhPJfMywaA Deadline: midnight on Sept. 5

About the class

This is a course about writing enjoyably and telling great stories. It starts from the suspicion that those two things are connected.

It is more ambitious than the average fiction class (while still being compatible with a normal work schedule). It will have you establishing a regular writing practice and generating a story (or chapter) a week for five weeks in a row. You will then revise one of those pieces, publish it in a zine, and read it to a roomful of supportive friends.

Our aims are:

• to develop strength, vision, and boldness as writers;
• to foster a vibrant and happy community of practice;
• to cultivate devotion to the acts of writing and reading; and
• to delight, terrify, and infect one another with the figments of our imaginations.

The course is designed to support a mix of novice and expert writers. You could use it to gauge your interest in writing fiction, to get out of a slump, or to structure an established practice.

The end-of-semester zine by the spring 2024 cohort, with amazingly inventive cover art by participant Sebastian Hodge

This is the second iteration of the class. The last one went very well, so I’ve kept the core design the same.