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7-week Master Fiction Intensive – begins 7.7.25 – Carroll Gardens

March 12, 2025 By Julia Fierro

Instructor: Ted Thompson
Dates: begins July 7 | meets Tues 7-9pm
Location: Carroll Gardens | 243 Smith St
Fee: $975 / $875 for returning Sackett writers

A writing sample is required for this class. Please fill out an application with your contact info and a brief sample of your writing.

Our Master Fiction Workshop is a selective class aimed at writers looking to polish their work for publication. Class is taught by our most experienced advanced fiction instructor whose students have gone on to attend top MFA programs and win prestigious awards. Class time is spent on in-depth discussion of student work and typed feedback from the instructor is included, as well as a private conference.

Writers should have extensive writing and writing class/workshop experience.

A private conference with the instructor is included.

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Ted Thompson is the author of The Land of Steady Habits, which was published by Little, Brown and was a finalist for the Center for Fiction Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. The novel was adapted by Nicole Holofcener for a feature film starring Ben Mendelsohn, Edie Falco and Connie Britton, released in 2017. His short stories have been published in Tin House, American Short Fiction, One Teen Story and Best New American Voices, and he has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the MacDowell Colony. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Ted has proudly taught for Sackett for over thirteen years, as well as at Amherst College and in the Brooklyn College MFA program. He lives in Brooklyn with his family.

Filed Under: Brooklyn, Fiction, In person

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Upcoming Online Classes

8-week ONLINE Personal Essay & Memoir I/II – begins 5.7.25

8-wk ONLINE Writing Sprints generative class (all genres) – begins 5.8.25

6-week ONLINE Writing Autofiction – begins 5.20.25

6-week Online Writing Speculative & Fantastical Fiction – begins 6.17.25

6-week ONLINE Fiction Writing (intermediate & advanced) – 6.3.25

Upcoming In-Person Classes

8-week Personal Essay & Memoir I/II – begins 5.14.25 – Soho

6-wk Writing Sprints: A Generative Class (all genres) – begins 5.8.25 – Carroll Gardens

6-wk Writing Sprints: A Generative Class (all genres) – begins 5.20.25 – Park Slope

6-week Personal Essay & Memoir I/II – begins 5.26.25 – Bed-Stuy

8-week Personal Essay & Memoir II/III – begins 6.2.25 – Park Slope

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