
Let's Make A Murder Mystery! 6-Week Zoom Class, Starts Wednesday, May 24th, 2023
Begins Wednesday, May 24th, 2023
Class will meet weekly on Wednesday nights via Zoom, 6PM - 8PM EST
Open to All writers!
Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button (lower left) to talk with us.
Taught by Evan Fleischer, a writer, editor, and teacher. He has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, and numerous other publications. He has a MFA from Emerson College.
Somewhere in-between the works of George Orwell, Raymond Chandler, Sherlock Holmes, and contemporary writings on police abolition is a terrific murder mystery story.
Let's Make A Murder Mystery! is a six-week writing workshop that invites those of any experience level to come build a collective murder mystery that engages in dialogue with these points of reference while submitting their own work to be workshopped as well.
COURSE TEXTS:
- The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
- “The Red-Headed League” by A. Conan Doyle
- When Police Kill by Franklin Zimring
- A World Without Police by Geo Maher
- We Own This City (television) by David Simon, Justin Fenton, et. al.
COURSE TAKEAWAYS:
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In addition to engaging with their peers' work, writers will have the chance to look at the intersection between fiction and a materialist power analysis.
TAKE THIS CLASS IF:
- You're finding the constraints of your current writing practice too limiting.
- You want exposure to a range of new approaches to bring to your writing practice.
- You want an expanded sense of what is possible in your work in 2023 and beyond!
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!
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Instructor: Evan Fleischer
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Class size limited to 6 writers
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Class Starts May 24th, 2023
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Course is fully ONLINE.
Instructor Evan Fleischer is a writer, editor, and recent MFA graduate. He has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, The New Republic, Slate, The Washington Post, Vice, and numerous other publications.