Note from the Director: This workshop was offered in 2020. Learn more about this year’s workshops.
Bring it Forth: Completing and Publishing Your Novel Workshop
Writing workshop in New Jersey
January 17-20, 2020
Led by Paul Lisicky
What to do with your novel now that it’s feeling close to finished, but is certainly not there yet? In this generative workshop, we’ll discuss three facets of the novel form: the opening, the ending and that elusive in-between point where the narrative shakes off its skin and becomes something new. We will study compelling samples of published novels for insight into how you might reimagine what feels stagnant or overdetermined in your own. While we’ll discuss the publishing process and how to send your work out into the world, our main focus will be on writing new material, revising and sharing. Bring excerpts of your novel (up to 10 double-spaced pages or 2,600 words) that you feel need reimagining before you can consider it complete.
*Limited to just 10 participants.*
“Thank you as always for providing a unique experience. Within the structure there is newness every time. The Getaway keeps challenging and nurturing me as a writer, and that is incentive to return.”
~ Jeanette, Hackettstown, NJ
Biography
Paul Lisicky is the author of five books including The Narrow Door, Unbuilt Projects and Lawnboy. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, Conjunctions, The New York Times, Tin House and elsewhere. His awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, where he has served on the Writing Committee since 2000. He has taught in the creative writing programs at Cornell University, New York University, Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently an associate professor in the MFA Program at Rutgers University-Camden. His sixth book, Later, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2020. He lives in Brooklyn. Visit his website: paullisicky.net.
