1 Session: Wednesday, December 3
6:30-8:30pm ET
Michael Zapata

This master class is taught by award winning novelist and editor Michael Zapata, author of The Lost Book of Adana Moreau, Best Book of the Year for NPR, the A.V. Club, Los Angeles Public Library, among others, and founding editor of MAKE Literary Magazine. He is the recent recipient of the Meier Foundation Artist Achievement Award. In Axios, Michael Zapata’s work was called an important “part of the growing Latino-futurism movement.”

Does free will even exist? What does uncertainty mean for our characters and the material realities through which they move and act? Does motivation even matter in prose? In this master class, Michael Zapata (author of the acclaimed novel The Lost Book of Adana Moreau) will guide writers through inquiries into characterization to create works of fiction that both utilize and bend the limits of our characters’ lives, and the relationships they contain. Additionally, as both resources and examples, we will pull from a wide range of fictional material including the short stories When We Nearly Young by Mavis Gallant and Atomito by Liliana Colanzi, the play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, and the film The Exterminating Angel by Luis Buńuel.

Workshop Highlights:

• A deeper understanding of new ways to approach characterization.

• New approaches in thinking about how material realities impact characters and their relationships.

• This master class includes a Q&A.

This class has 1 full and 1 partial scholarship available. To apply, please fill out this form by Monday, November 24.