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Rick Hillis

Rick Hillis

Short Story Workshop
One-Week Workshop
July 6–11

Advanced Short Story Workshop
Weekend Workshop
July 12–13

Biography

 

Short Story Workshop
One-Week Workshop
July 6–11

This workshop is for folks who have written a story or more or have made attempts at stories and want feedback on their work. Please plan to send me a short story (or what you have of a short story) of no more than twelve double-spaced pages in advance of our session and bring copies of these pages to share with the group. We will look at each story in its own light and in light of the standard elements of fiction—character, plot, point of view, metaphor, voice, etc. The week will involve workshopping the pieces you bring, revision, and perhaps some new work.

Advanced Short Story Workshop
Weekend Workshop
July 12–13

What are your story’s strengths? Where does it falter? What’s it really about? We are often too close to our simmering sentences to know. This workshop is for writers who have taken a story as far as they can, and want feedback to push it to the next level. Perhaps by identifying a possible controlling metaphor that might be developed, questioning a character’s motivation, examining the logic of the structure, or choices of point of view or tense . . . you will suddenly see your story opening to a new direction and final form. Please plan to send me one story of no more than fifteen double-spaced pages in advance of our session and bring copies of these pages to share with the group.

Biography
Rick Hillis (M.F.A., The University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop) is the author of a book of poetry, The Blue Machines of Night, and a collection of short stories, Limbo River, which was awarded the Drue Heinz Prize. He has taught at Stanford University, Lewis & Clark College, California State Hayward, Reed College, and DePauw University, where he currently teaches fiction, screenwriting, and poetry workshops.

 



 

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Last updated on January 10, 2008