About the Workshop

Whether you have published many books, or are just starting out – this is a craft-based workshop designed for fiction and nonfiction writers at all levels. Students are invited to bring excerpts of novels, short stories, articles, essays, and long nonfiction books OR pages of notes OR a description of an idea. No matter where you are starting from, you will leave the week able to go to the next step.

For the first class, please bring 11 double spaced and paginated copies of one of the following:
4-10 page excerpt of a novel, short story, essay, memoir, nonfiction book
OR
4-10 pages of notes for one of the above
OR
a description of an idea you have for a prose piece.

This workshop is open only to students who have not worked with Sarah Schulman before.

About the Instructor

Sarah Schulman  is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, nonfiction writer, and AIDS historian. Her 21st book, The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity, is published by Penguin Random House imprint Thesis Books. Schulman is on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace and holds an endowed chair at Northwestern University.