Instructor: Estha Weiner
Four hour ON CAMPUS session on Saturday, March 19, 2022
10:00am to 2:00pm EST 
Workshop is limited to 10 participants
$175

Per Sarah Lawrence College policy: Participants must show proof of Covid-19 vaccination in order to attend. Effective March 12, 2022 masks are optional in all campus settings for all members of our community, as well as for visitors to campus. The College will continue to monitor COVID-19 conditions on and around campus, and adapt our protocols as appropriate. 

Classroom TBA

Course Description

Have as many tools as possible, when you start to write that story/novel.

During the first part of  this intensive, we will read variant short fiction or portions of short fiction and a one-act play that successfully use many tools of the poet, from writers: Grace Paley, Jamaica Kincaid, Tim O'Brien, Harold Pinter, James Joyce, Gabriel García Márquez, Amy Hempel, and Kathy Fish. We'll  then discuss what poetry tools  these writers are using.

The second part will be to begin a first draft of your short story, utilizing the poetry tools, as well as, of course, tools of fiction. You'll have the chance to read your drafts out loud, and  we'll have the chance to respond. New rich work for all!

Who Should Take This Class? 

Prose writers  who are open to using  poetry tools to expand and enrich their writing . 

Your Instructor

Estha Weiner's  newest poetry  collection is:  at the last minute { Salmon Poetry, 2019}. She is also author of In the Weather of the World (Salmon Poetry), Transfiguration Begins at Home ( Tiger Bark Press), The Mistress Manuscript (Asheville Book Works), and co-editor/contributor to Blues  For Bill: A Tribute to William  Matthews ( University of Akron Press). Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including The New Republic and Barrow Street. Winner of a Paterson Poetry Prize and Visiting Scholar at  Shakespeare Institute, Stratford, England, she is founding director of Sarah Lawrence NY Alumni Writers Nights, and serves on the Advisory Committee of Slapering  Hol Press, Hudson Valley Writers Center. She is a professor in the English Dept. of City College of NY, CUNY, and Sarah Lawrence College Writing Institute.      

Testimonials

Estha Weiner cares deeply about writers and writing. As she shares the strategies she uses when crafting her own (sly, winning, sometimes searing) poems, she guides writers of all genres and levels to greater fluency. She has the rare ability to make literary concepts concrete. And she has a passion for language that inspires students to take their work further.- Nalina Moses

This was a great workshop. Estha Weiner had some readings to give us examples of using the poets' toolbox.  We read them aloud. I particularly liked the use of lists. This class helped me with both poetry writing and fiction. It was an inspiration and fun.- Pamela Butler

Estha's class inspired me to learn new craft and tools to enhance my work.  I also wrote the beginnings of several new pieces eventually published a year later.- Paula Brancato