Note from the Director: This workshop was offered in 2020. Learn more about this year’s workshops.
Continuing Your Novel Workshop
Writing workshop in New Jersey
January 17-20, 2020
Led by Roberta Clipper
Best-selling author John Irving described his method for writing compelling novels as: “You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.” This workshop, designed for those who have already begun writing their novels, will give you the inspiration and guidance to move forward with purpose and get obsessed. The workshop will include “off the page exercises” in characterization, story structure, point of view, planning and more–based on what individual participants need. The workshop leader and other participants will offer feedback on your in-class writing in a constructive, supportive environment that will help you move toward a completed first draft.
To get the most from this workshop, you should:
- be working on a book-length work of fiction
- have already written at least 25 pages
Be ready to submit 5 pages (no more than 1,700 words, double-spaced with 1″ margins and a 12 point font) of your novel and a 1 page synopsis by Dec. 20. If you register after this date, no problem–just submit your work within a week of registering. The workshop leader and participants will read each submission before the Getaway.
*Limited to just 10 participants.*
“What a great opportunity this is to escape into the world of writing for a long weekend, to work with award-winning poets and writers, to meet and network with other fellow writers and to just have a ripping good time. Kudos to Peter, Stockton and everyone involved for another excellent conference!”
~ Bruce, Cherry Hill, NJ
Biography
Roberta Clipper has published two novels-in-stories under the name Robbie Clipper Sethi, The Bride Wore Red (Picador, 1997) and Fifty-Fifty (Silicon Press, 2003), as well as short stories in The Atlantic Monthly, Mademoiselle, the Philadelphia Inquirer and a number of literary magazines and anthologies. Her fiction has won a National Endowment for the Arts award and two fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Robbie teaches fiction, poetry, expository writing and literature at Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ. On a Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship, she spent a “monsoon semester” (August-December 2009) teaching creative writing at the International Institute of Information Technology in Hyderabad, India and in the summer of 2019 taught English in Prague, Czech Republic. She is proud to have had a story accepted in More Challenges for the Delusional. To read some of her work, visit robbieclippersethi.com.
