Spring 2020 Online: Strange Stories: Putting the Uncanny in Your Fiction
Online N/A, Portland, OR, United StatesThis class will take place online, using Wet Ink, a popular online platform for classes. Registered students will receive a link to access the class four days before it starts. A four week online fiction class. The unusual is thriving in contemporary storytelling. Maybe art is imitating our strange times. Looking at stories from writers such as Kelly Link and A.S. Byatt, we will consider how the strange can get us closer to the truth. Plan to draft two stories and discuss one of those stories with the class. Please note: Wet Ink is different from Zoom for online classes in that there is not a “live” option. Students do not “attend” class at a set time, but rather, access lectures, readings and other materials…