UPCOMING COURSES
Story Incubator: In this 5-week course, we’ll take a story from concept to query. First we’ll study story setups and shapes with some deep reads. Then you’ll conceptualize and write your own story with feedback from me to guide you. And we’ll have a final class meeting to discuss story endings and literary journal publication.
Course Meetings: Wednesdays September 23 – October 21, 6-8pm PST over zoom
Course Cost: $450
All class sessions will be recorded. Email kmflynn@mac.com to reserve your spot!
Novel Incubator: The goal of this 12-week course is to dive deeply into your novel project. Each week you’ll write or revise up to 20 pages and receive feedback from me. You’ll meet one-on-one with me four times throughout the course to discuss your project, and we’ll have three course meetings where we’ll discuss novel setups and shapes and deeply studying the construction of a well-crafted novel. By the end of the course, you’ll have a sharpened novel pitch and up to 240 pages of your project written.
Course Meetings: Mondays September 28, November 30, December 14, 6-8pm PST over zoom
Course Cost: $1000
All class sessions will be recorded. Email kmflynn@mac.com to reserve your spot!
The Horror!! 2: The Horror Within: Horror and surrealism are not just for genre writers! They’re great tools for any writer who wants to turn up the vibes of their prose and have a powerful and visceral impact on their readers. This round we’ll be focusing on the horror within, where the locus of horror is the character’s own mind.
Over the course of these 4 weeks, we’ll read novel excerpts and short stories that embrace psychological horror. These will largely come from works of literary realism (I guarantee you’ll be surprised by some of my choices), though we’ll blend in some material from the horror genre too. We’ll examine how these writers manifest psychological horror, and we’ll use our observations as a launching point for our own work.
I’ll be providing prompts to generate new material, feedback to guide you as you select one of your pieces to expand out into a short story or novel excerpt.
Course Meetings: Wednesdays October 28 – Nov 18, 6-8pm PST over Zoom
Course Cost: $350
All class sessions will be recorded. Follow this link to reserve your spot!