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Fall 2019: Novel Writing Accountability
September 29, 2019 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
$485Prerequisites:
• Previously enrolled in nine month novel intensive with Laura Lampton Scott or Gina Ochsner or
• Previously enrolled in “Writing a Novel in 8 weeks” or
• Instructor permission (email Susan at susan@literary-arts.org) for information)
September 29,2019; October 27,2019; December 8,2019;January 26,2020; February 23,2020; March 29,2020; April 26,2020; May 17,2020
Sundays, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (8 meetings)
Instructor: Laura Lampton Scott
This class meets once a month from September to May. This will be your monthly dose of accountability, inspiration, and honest airing of challenges we face when working on book-length work. Each writer will have the opportunity to workshop pages of their novel in progress.
Laura Lampton Scott’s work has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Tin House and the Guardian online, Electric Literature, Monkeybicycle, Okey-Panky, and No Tokens Journal. She has served as assistant and managing editor on books in the McSweeney’s Voice of Witness series, and she’s a MacDowell Colony fellow. Laura has taught fiction at the University of Montana, Literary Arts in Portland, and Hugo House in Seattle.