Instructors: Annabel Monaghan and Eileen Palma
Length: 11 sessions, $660
Thursdays, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Are you in the middle of a first draft? Second, third, or when-will-this-be-over draft? Or are you just starting to think about writing a novel? Wherever you are in the process of writing an extended piece of fiction, this is a course that will challenge and support you. Along with group feedback, you and your work will receive a great deal of one-on-one attention from the instructors.

Annabel Monaghan is the author of two novels for young adults, A Girl Named Digit and Double Digit (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), and is co-author of Click! The Girls Guide to Knowing What You Want and Making it Happen (Simon and Schuster). Monaghan writes a bi-weekly column for The Rye Record and is lifestyle columnist at The Week. She is also a regular contributor to The Huffington Post. Annabel has a degree in English from Duke University, an MBA from The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania. www.annabelmonaghan.com
 
Eileen Palma has dual B.A. in English and Education from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and is an alumnus of The Writing Institute. Elieens’s debut romantic comedy Worth the Weight was selected as a compelling read from an emerging author for Barnes & Noble’s Nook First program. It also placed first in the 2012 Tampa Area Romance Authors contest and  was one of the 2012 Wisconsin Romance Writer’s Fab Five. Eileen is a member of the national and New York City chapters of Romance Writers of America. www.eileenpalmaauthor.com