Advanced Fiction
Date & Time
Mondays, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Nov. 7 - Dec. 12
Class Size
8 Students
Mondays, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Nov. 7 - Dec. 12
8 Students
This advanced workshop led by Anna Noyes is for serious writers of fiction who have previous workshop experience. Writers should come to class with pieces that are ready for feedback. Novel excerpts welcome. Each student will workshop twice and meet once with the instructor for an individual conference following their in-class critiques.
Anna Noyes is the author of the debut story collection, Goodnight, Beautiful Women (Grove Atlantic 2016), which was named a New York Times Editors' Choice. She has an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has received the Aspen Words Emerging Writer Fellowship, the James Merrill House Fellowship, and the Lighthouse Works Fellowship. Goodnight, Beautiful Women was awarded the 2013 Henfield Prize for Fiction and the 2016 Lotos Foundation Prize, and is a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and an Indie Next Great Reads pick.
"Artful . . . [the stories] consistently sparkle with expressive detail . . . with sympathy and skill . . . Noyes’s knack for lucid prose includes providing her characters with simple language that nevertheless grasps an understanding of complex human dynamics."
"Lucid, sensual . . . If the fiction of Stephen King and Alice Munro had a literary love child, it might look like this: luminous domestic moments married to a pervasive sense of threat . . . Noyes is a master of disturbing juxtapositions that interpolate childhood games with sexuality, suggesting something dangerous in both . . . appealingly frank and astute . . . Noyes’s prose is admirably restrained, and the real drama remains that of character, the mystery we are to ourselves."
"This is an extraordinary book of stories. Many of the characters are anchored to coastal Maine, but a particular quality of wildness animates nearly all of them. The stories are energetic, often mysterious, and beautifully written, and they will stay in your memory long after you finish the book."
"Both perceptive and inspiring, Anna Noyes is one of the most gifted writing instructors I’ve ever had. She gently nudges her students toward greater clarity and focus in their work. She led us through many engaging writing exercises, and her sensitive, nuanced feedback was tremendously helpful."
