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Stay the Course:
A Novel Writing Workshop

Writing Workshop in New Jersey
January 12-15, 2024
Led by Marina Budhos

Novels have many moving parts, making it easy for us to lose track of the big picture as we write. This workshop will help us stay focused on the driving conflict of our novels while pushing through the messy drafting process. Guided exercises will keep our manuscripts moving forward as we explore “side-writing” for character development and learn how to sustain inner peril in a story. We will use our supportive space to share excerpts with each other, taking notes on how and when we might revise further drafts. You are welcome to bring a novel-in-progress or early outlines, or to start something brand new.

*Limited to just 10 participants.*

 

“I had a better, more enriching experience at the retreat than in the book-writing group I attended for over a year. Our workshop leader was at the top of the scale, keeping the workshop intensive, genuine, supportive and inspiring.”
~ Juliet, Brooklyn, NY

 

Marina Budhos

Marina Budhos is the author of several books for young adults and adults.  Her newest novel, We Are All We Have, was a Best Kirkus Book of 2022. Among her prior books are Watched, which received a Walter Award and an Asian Pacific American Honor, The Long Ride, Tell Us We’re Home  and Ask Me No Questions, recipient of numerous honors. She has also published the adult novels The Professor of Light and House of Waiting, and three works of nonfiction, including Sugar Changed the World, an LA Times Book Finalist. She has received an NEA Literature Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Award for Women Writers, three Fellowships from the New Jersey Council on the Arts and has been a Fulbright Scholar to India. She is a professor emerita at William Paterson University. View her website and read an essay by Marina.