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What is the Shape of Your Novel? Some Unconventional Structures for Unconventional Novels

What is the Shape of Your Novel? Some Unconventional Structures for Unconventional Novels

Somewhere in nearly every writer's education, a teacher draws a triangle on the board and calls it the shape of...

by Writing Workshops Staff

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Writing with the Garden: Louise Glück's The Wild Iris and an Exercise for Plant Writing

Writing with the Garden: Louise Glück's The Wild Iris and an Exercise for Plant Writing

4 months ago

Meet the Teaching Artist: Miranda Schmidt on Noticing, the Carrier Bag, and Writing with the More-Than-Human

Meet the Teaching Artist: Miranda Schmidt on Noticing, the Carrier Bag, and Writing with the More-Than-Human

5 months ago

Meet our Instructors:

What is the Shape of Your Novel? Some Unconventional Structures for Unconventional Novels

What is the Shape of Your Novel? Some Unconventional Structures for Unconventional Novels

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Rosalie Moralies Kearns, pictured, on writing together, without critique

Rosalie Morales Kearns on Writing Together, Without Critique

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In the Woodshed with a Woodstove: A Generative Winter Writing Camp, 8-week online workshop with Sarah McColl

Sarah McColl on Winter Writing: Why Discipline Needs Gentleness and Your Messy Pages Matter

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Rebecca Winterich-Knox on Scene, Summary, and Writing Mothers and Daughters

Rebecca Winterich-Knox on Scene, Summary, and Writing Mothers and Daughters

3 weeks ago

Student Publication News:

Michaell Crews-Yancey's Tiny Love Story Appears in The New York Times

Michaell Crews-Yancey's Tiny Love Story Appears in The New York Times

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Promotional graphic for a signed preorder of the book "The Indecipherables" by Anne Hellman. The image features a portrait of the author, the yellow book cover displaying four pairs of eyes, and instructions to order by January 12, 2027

Pre-Order Anne Hellman's The Indecipherables from Books Are Magic

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JJ Kambal’s Mission Impossible Recipe Satire Lands at Points in Case

JJ Kambal’s Mission Impossible Recipe Satire Lands at Points in Case

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A Most Anticipated debut of 2026 from Debutiful

A Most Anticipated debut of 2026 from Debutiful

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