1 Session: Tuesday, October 8
6:00-8:00pm ET
Michael Zapata

This one-part craft 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.”

“The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come part, the end of cities begin.” - Italo Calvino

The structure of a work of fiction is the reality through which everything else moves. Without it, stories can flounder, lose shape, or dissipate into the ether! In this two-hour craft seminar, we will explore the reality inventing power of structure. We’ll discuss experimental and non-traditional narrative structures found throughout the world, with a particular focus on narratives of unreality and decolonial narratives including Latinx, Latin American, and indigenous works of fiction, and how to structure and map out our own fiction in order to expand the possibilities of our work.

Workshop Highlights:

• A fun, global approach to writing

• A deeper understanding of how experimental and non-traditional forms of structure can impact our own work

• The seminar will also include a Q&A.

2 full scholarships available. For information, please contact Kate Mabus, kate@theshipmanagency.com