2 Sessions: Thursday, August 1+8
6:00-8:00pm ET
Michael Zapata

This two-part seminar 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. He is the recent recipient of the Meier Foundation Artist Achievement Award. In Axios, Michael Zapata’s work was called an important “part of the growing Latinofuturism movement.”

When Gabriel García Márquez discovered the novel Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo, he read it twice in a single, dazed, sleepless night, and shortly afterward set out to write his own masterpiece A Hundred Years of Solitude. He called Pedro Páramo, a novel in which the real and the unreal are blurred beyond recognition, “a poetic work of the highest order.” To many writers, critics, and readers Pedro Páramo is the major supernova that forever altered the course of world literature. With a phenomenal new translation by Douglas J. Weatherford, it’s a good time to revisit this seminal, astonishing novel.

In this seminar, we’ll read Pedro Páramo, review a short history on Latin American literature, and explore how this major novel can transform us both as readers and writers. We’ll examine how it navigates its otherworldly language, the past and the eternal present, the living and the dead, and the real and the unreal. We’ll also discuss how speculative craft techniques and artful approaches found in the novel can help us identify and expand the possibilities of our own work.

Workshop Highlights:

• A fun and joyful study of the masterpiece Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo.

• A deeper understanding of how Latin American literature and speculative works of fiction can impact our own work.

• The seminar will also include a Q&A.

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