Fiction
November 3-7, 2025
Tiered Tuition
$250-$600 Reserve My Spot
November 3rd-7th at TBD (Eastern)
Stories can inspire a change in thinking, and a change in action—illuminating issues and opening the way for more people to tell their stories too. Let’s ask questions about the meaning of community, family, power, and survival in 2025. This generative class includes guided exercises and in-class readings. You’ll share work in a supportive environment. We’ll also discuss our most pressing research and revision questions that we’ll address with related exercises. We will hone our craft and return to our work, old and new, with fresh eyes. Students will leave with material to refine later, and the inspiration and tools to do so.
Vanessa Hua is the author of Deceit and Other Possibilities (2016), winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and a finalist for the California Book Award, as well as A River of Stars (2018) and Forbidden City (2022). She has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing, Dr. Suzanne Ahn Award for Civil Rights and Social Justice reporting as well as honors from the Society of Professional Journalists, Asian American Journalists’ Association, and Best of the West. A columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle, she has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, and ZYZZYVA, among others, and has filed stories from China, Burma, South Korea, and elsewhere. She teaches at the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, Sewanee Writers Conference, and elsewhere.
