1 Session: Thursday, May 23
7:00-9:00pm ET
Michael Zapata

This master class is taught by award winning novelist and editor Michael Zapata, author of The Lost Book of Adana Moreau, Best Book of the Year for NPR, the A.V. Club, Los Angeles Public Library, among others, and founding editor of Make Literary Magazine. In Axios, Michael Zapata’s work was called an important “part of the growing Latinofuturism movement.”

How does a mind work anyway? What are we to make of all those thoughts and realities that float through the consciousnesses of our characters like schools of foraging fish in the sea? Can omniscience itself be a thinking character? In this master class, Michael Zapata will guide writers through inquiries into interiority, inner speech, inner seeing, unsymbolized thinking, and emotional states of being in order to create works of fiction that both utilize and bend the limits of our characters’ minds. Additionally, we will consider and discuss what artists and scientists have to say about the endlessly sticky matter of consciousness.

Workshop Highlights:

• We will study how interiority itself can be a type of narrative engine

• Generative exercises in class

• A Q&A session

1 scholarship available. For information, please contact Kate Mabus, kate@theshipmanagency.com