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12-wk VIRTUAL Manuscript Generator I : a generative class – begins 9.13.23

February 16, 2023 By Julia Fierro

Begins: September 13, 2023
Instructor: Heather Aimee O’Neill
Location: Meetings via video every other Wednesday 7-9pm EST
Fee: $1050.00

This generative class open to novelists, memoirists, and writers working on story and essay collections.

This section of Manuscript Generator is intended for writers who have not participated in a previous Manuscript Generator class.

A writing sample is not required but recommended for this class.

Every other week you will submit up to 5,000 words of your manuscript to the instructor and she will provide you with written feedback. You’ll also have the opportunity to receive feedback from your fellow writers on your project synopsis or outline, scene exercises, and your manuscript’s opening paragraphs. The two-hour bi-weekly meetings will be the chance for you to discuss your projects and engage with writing prompts in shared group writing time. The instructor also offers a 30-minute one-on-one consultation at the end of the course to discuss your manuscript in depth.

The workshop is open to writers who have completed one or more chapters of a novel or memoir, as well as writers working on short story and/or essay collections. Writers participating in this course will learn how to recognize the successful techniques in their writing – what engages the reader, and how that success is achieved. Carefully planned lessons and online discussions will focus on analyzing the many choices (point-of-view, tone, characterizing details, pacing, etc.) a writer must make concerning structure, character and language. This course is intended for writers who have some experience writing and workshopping.
A private conference with the instructor is included.

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Heather Aimee O’Neill has worked with hundreds of writers in Sackett Street’s popular Manuscript Intensive Workshop (online and in Brooklyn) and they have continued on to publish with both independent and commercial presses such as Penguin Random House, Harper Collins, LiveWright, Henry Holt, Park Row, Mariner Books, Lake Union, Doubleday, Flatiron, Little A, Dzanc Books and more. Her most recent collection of poetry, Obliterations, was co-authored with Jessica Piazza and published by Red Hen Press. A recent Lambda Literary Poetry Fellow, her poetry chapbook, Memory Future, won the University of Southern California’s Gold Line Press Award, chosen by judge Carol Muske-Dukes. She is a freelance writer for publications such as Time Out New York, Parents Magazine and Salon.com.

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Upcoming Online Classes

8-week ONLINE Writing Sprints: A Generative Class (fiction & nonfiction) – begins 9.13.23

12-wk VIRTUAL Manuscript Generator I : a generative class – begins 9.13.23

8-week ONLINE Fiction Writing II/III – begins 9.14.23

8-week ONLINE Advanced Personal Essay & Memoir – begins 9.14.23

8-week Online MFA Application Prep Workshop (open to fiction & nonfiction writers) – begins 9.18.23

Upcoming In-Person Classes

8-week Fiction Writing II/III (intermediate & advanced) – begins 9.11.23 – Park Slope

8-wk Writing Sprints: A Generative Class (all genres) – begins 9.11.23 – Chelsea

8-week Personal Essay & Memoir I/II – begins 9.11.23 – Park Slope

8-week Fiction III (advanced) – begins 9.12.23 – Park Slope

8-wk Writing Sprints: A Generative Class (all genres) – begins 9.12.23 – Chelsea

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