Instructor: Julia Fierro
Dates: begins wk of Oct 28 – *no class the wk of Dec 23 & Dec 30
Location: Online (weekly video meet-up wknight tbd 7-9:30pm ET)
Fee: $1200
A writing sample is required for this class. Please fill out an application with your contact info and a sample of your writing.
Our Master Fiction Workshop is aimed at writers who have mastered the essentials and are looking for a community of peers ready to offer insightful, impartial feedback on works in progress. Whether you’re a writer looking to polish work for publication or an MFA application, looking for a fresh perspective, looking to climb the next hurdle, or simply missing the motivation and comradery only a small workshop can offer, our Master Fiction Workshop is designed to give you the feedback you need. Come geek out with your fellow lit nerds and walk away with a renewed sense of purpose.
Online craft lessons and a virtual classroom space are included, as well as a private conference with the instructor.
Two submissions (6,520 words max each time) will be read, critiqued and discussed by the class and will receive detailed line notes and suggested edits from the instructor.
Writers should have both writing and writing class experience and the class is open to both short story writers and novelists.
Julia Fierro is the author of the novels The Gypsy Moth Summer and Cutting Teeth. She is one half of Cassidy Lucas, pen name of writing duo Julia Fierro and Caeli Wolfson Widger. Santa Monica, their first book together, was published by Harper in October 2020. Their second novel, The Last Party, set in Topanga Canyon on the westside of Los Angeles, was published in April 2022.
A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Julia founded The Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop in 2002, now a creative home to over 10,000 writers and named “New York City’s best writing class” by Time Out New York, the L Magazine, and Brooklyn Magazine; and a “Top Alternative to MFA programs” by Poets & Writers. Workshops are offered throughout NYC and online. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Poets & Writers, Buzzfeed, Glamour, Psychology Today, and other publications, and she has been profiled in The Observer and The Economist.
Julia has been an editor and writing coach since 2003, providing in-depth developmental feedback for authors of literary and commercial fiction. Books that she has worked on include books published by Penguin Random House, Riverhead, Simon and Schuster, Viking, Scribner, Harper Collins, Little A, Houghton Mifflin and more. She has traveled nationwide to give talks about writing, the teaching of writing, crafting creative communities, and publishing. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, two children, and her father/gardening partner. She is at work on her fifth novel, a literary genre-bender set in Southern Italy during the WWII liberation.