Saturday, April 8th, 2023

Live Seminar via Zoom from 1:00PM - 3:00PM EST

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Instructor Caitlin Kunkel's writing has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, McSweeney's, and on public radio. She's the co-founder of the comedy site The Belladonna, created the online satire writing program for The Second City, and co-created the Satire and Humor Festival. Her first co-written book, NEW EROTICA FOR FEMINISTS, was published by Penguin Random House and named one of the 10 best comedy books of the year by Vulture (NY Mag).

In this class, Caitlin will take writers through three forms—parody, travelogue, and epistolary—that can be used as frameworks for longer comedic fiction. We’ll go over the hallmarks of each of these forms via examples and class discussion, then move into structured writing prompts for the three forms.

This generative writing can serve as framing devices for a longer story, or perhaps as the jumping off point for a short story or piece of funny flash fiction. We’ll also discuss why starting with an elevated form can make it easier to write fiction in a comedic key. Students will be sent several longer examples to read prior to meeting.

This class is for those curious about comedic novels, different novel structures, and how to jump into the process of writing funny longer work.