Starts Thursday, January 9, 2025

Class will meet weekly via Zoom on Thursdays from 4:00 - 6:00 PM PST

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Instructor Michelle Kicherer covers books and music for the San Francisco Chronicle, and her fiction has appeared in The Masters Review, The Sierra Nevada Review, The Berkeley Fiction Review, and others. Her debut novella, Sexy Life, Hello, came out in September 2024. Willamette Week called it “one of the most compelling short reads of the year.” Michelle aims to have one weird new experience every day. 

Read an interview with Michelle on Writing the Novella. 

The novella is a cool form of literature somewhere between a short story and a novel. Since it’s somewhere between the two in length, novellas often are somewhere between the two in their complexity as well. With novellas, we have a little more time to advance the plot and explore our characters, but not a whole lot. 

So how do we take best advantage of our pages in the novella form? 

In this six-week class, we'll look at outlines and excerpts from several famous novellas, and we’ll read three novellas in their entirety:

• Liberation Day, by George Saunders
• Cecilia, by K-Ming Chang
• The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway

COURSE TAKEAWAYS:

• How to start a novella with an immediate hook.
• What each of these three writers set up for and what the story delivers.
• How to structure a novella.
• What these novellas do (and don’t do) to make them successful stories.

Each class starts with a short writing warm-up using fiction-focused, generative writing prompts. Writing is such a deeply personal endeavor. My classes provide a safe space to share your questions and insights so we all feel productive and judgment-free. 

CLASS SUPPLIES:

•   Please bring a writing utensil and a notebook.

ONLINE COURSE STRUCTURE:

This class meets weekly via Zoom. Come prepared for a super fun class with live interaction on Zoom each week and plenty of writing, reading, and talking!

PAYMENT OPTIONS:

Tuition is $395 USD. You can pay for the course in full or use Shop Pay or Affirm to pay over time with equal Monthly Payments. Both options are available at checkout.

• Instructor: Michelle Kicherer
• Class starts on Thursday, January 9, 2025
• Class will meet weekly via Zoom on Thursdays from 4:00 - 6:00 PM PST
  
• Tuition is $395 USD

Contact us HERE if you have any questions about this class.