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Writing Noir 6 Week Zoom Workshop, Starts September 7th, 2022
Writing Noir 6 Week Zoom Workshop, Starts September 7th, 2022
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$395.00

Writing Noir 6 Week Zoom Workshop, Starts September 7th, 2022

Class Starts Wednesday, September 7th, 2022

Class will meet weekly via Zoom (Wednesdays, 7:00PM EST - 9:00PM EST).

Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button (lower left) to talk with us.

Led by David Byron Queen, whose work has appeared in VICE, Split Lip Magazine, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Hobart, McSweeney's, and elsewhere. David has an MFA from the University of Montana, where he was a Truman Capote Fellow. He lives in New York and runs the indie publishing company word west.

Derived from the French noir (“darkness”), this iconic genre rose to prominence in the first half of the twentieth century with its densely plotted stories of hardboiled detectives and femme fatales, before taking over the Hollywood studio system in the 1940s and 50s.

But what really makes a story noir?

In this 6-week fiction workshop, we’ll read and discuss a number of noir classics—from Raymond Chandler and Dorothy Hughes, to contemporary authors taking the genre into new and exciting places (Megan Abbott, S.A. Cosby, and more). We’ll also spend our classes breaking down noir tropes and techniques and learning how to apply them to your own noir-inspired fiction.

In this generative 6-week workshop, you will:
  • Take away written feedback on your stories.
  • Have a stronger understanding of noir.
  • Develop and practice writing techniques pulled from the noir genre.
  • Have stronger confidence in your writing and analyzing the writing of your peers.

COURSE TAKEAWAYS:

  • Stronger sense of noir storytelling.
  • Stronger sense of reading and analyzing how stories work.
  • Stronger sense of giving helpful feedback to peers/writers.
  • And a clearer sense of the type of fiction you want to write.

ASSIGNED READING:

  • The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
  • In a Lonely Place by Dorothy Hughes
  • Black Wings Has My Angel by Elliott Chaze
  • City of Glass by Paul Auster
  • Queenpin by Megan Abbott
  • Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby
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:

You can pay for the course in full or use Affirm, Shop Pay, or Lay-Buy to pay over time with equal Monthly Payments. Both options are available at checkout.

  • Instructor: David Byron Queen

  • Class Starts Thursday, September 7th, 2022

  • Course is fully ONLINE and will meet weekly via Zoom on Wednesdays from 7:00PM EST - 9:00PM EST.

Instructor David Byron Queen was raised in Ohio. He has an MFA from the University of Montana, where he was a Truman Capote Fellow. His work has appeared in VICE, Split Lip Magazine, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Hobart, McSweeney's, and elsewhere. In 2021 he was awarded a writing residency at the Gulkistan Center for Creativity in Laugarvatn, Iceland. He lives in New York and runs the indie publishing company word west.

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