Find Your Fiction Voice — Live Online Fiction Seminar with Robert Anthony Siegel on Tuesday, May 11th, 2027
Find Your Fiction Voice: Live Fiction Seminar | May 2027 Online
Find Your Fiction Voice: Live Writing Seminar with Robert Anthony Siegel
Tuesday, May 11, 2027
Live Seminar via Zoom from 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM ET
🌍 Class Times by Time Zone:
- Los Angeles (PDT): 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
- Chicago (CDT): 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- New York (EDT): 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
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Instructor Robert Anthony Siegel is the author of a memoir, Criminals, and two novels, All Will Be Revealed and All the Money in the World. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Smithsonian Magazine, The Paris Review, The Drift, The Oxford American, and Ploughshares, and has been anthologized in Best American Essays 2023, O. Henry Stories 2014, and Pushcart Prize XXXVI. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in Taiwan, a Mombukagakusho Fellow in Japan, a Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and a Paul Engle Fellow at the Iowa Writers Workshop. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop.
Get to know Robert in our Meet the Teaching Artist interview with Robert Anthony Siegel.
Who is this class for?
This live online writing seminar is for fiction writers at every level who want a clearer understanding of voice and practical ways to develop it in their own work. Whether you are drafting your first stories or deep into a novel, you will leave with tools you can use the next time you sit down to write.
What to expect:
Voice is crucial to writing fiction, yet difficult to understand. Writers talk a lot about voice, but what is it, exactly? Why is it so important? How does it work? And how is it constructed? Some clarity on how voice is created will help you develop voice in your own writing.
In this two-hour Zoom writing class, we'll look at several examples of voice from great published writers, and then explore how to create a range of distinctive voices in our own fiction through in-class exercises. Come ready to ask questions, write short exercises, and share with the group.
Can't Make It Live?
No problem! The session will be recorded and available to watch after the seminar concludes.
COURSE EXPECTATIONS:
Come ready to ask questions, write short in-class exercises, and share with the group.
COURSE TAKEAWAYS:
- A clear understanding of voice, its role in fiction, and how it is created on the page.
- Techniques to help you develop voice in your own fiction.
TESTIMONIALS:
"This course exceeded my expectations. Robert "dripped" the craft-info to us, just enough to get to the next exercise. It never felt "information heavy" to me. He covered everything for me." — Robert B.
"The course was wonderful. The wealth of information and the opportunity to use the exercises to think through my novel was most valuable. What an excellent course all around: the structure, content, and atmosphere." — Former Student
"I found Robert's provision of tools, and then the practical application in exercises most valuable. Robert is one of the best that I have learned from. His tempo and pace throughout the class were great. He listens with a keen ear, and is very approachable and compassionate in his delivery. He also shared a lot of examples of novels for us to read and pick up on ways to deliver story." — Carol R.
"Robert was superb. He created an encouraging atmosphere, a clear step-by-step building of ideas, and helpful exercises. Highly recommend!" — Former Student
"This class exceeded my expectations. I found the didactic portions were extremely informative and so were the exercises very valuable." — Lisa M.
"Full of richly drawn characters and jolting plot twists—Glasser's time behind bars is especially chilling—Siegel's debut novel works both as a parable of how quickly the high and mighty can fall, and as gripping drama. 'Money' well spent." — New York Post on All the Money in the World
"Early in this novel, there is a wonderful scene—rich with embarrassment—in which Louis Glasser, the altogether unlikely hero, helps his Harvard-educated son buy a new suit. The son's fortunes founder, but that's nothing compared to the perils that overwhelm his father—a lawyer who operates on the margins and becomes the target of a criminal investigation. Siegel's … portraits (loving and otherwise) of the Glassers, New York prosecutors, and various lowlifes are right on the money." — The New Yorker on All the Money in the World
"...Well-turned and elegant...Gloriously complex..." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution on All Will Be Revealed
"...A richly detailed and seedily seductive narrative." — Publishers Weekly on All Will Be Revealed
"Robert's unique skill as a teacher comes from his enthusiasm not only for talking, which is present in many talented professors, but for listening... He has a reputation for being the best kind of teacher: generous, knowledgeable, demanding, and always at the ready with excellent advice." — Former Student
"The level of discourse was challenging and interesting and I think part of the reason for that was the casual atmosphere of discussion, fostered by Robert. When people are allowed to speak in an open, non-threatening environment, wonderful things happen." — Former Student
PAYMENT OPTIONS:
Tuition is $99 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.
ONLINE COURSE STRUCTURE:
- Instructor: Robert Anthony Siegel
- Live Seminar via Zoom on Tuesday, May 11, 2027
- Class will meet 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM ET
- Tuition is $99 USD.