Intermediate Fiction
Date & Time
Mondays, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Oct. 3 - Nov. 14
Class Size
8 Students
Mondays, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Oct. 3 - Nov. 14
8 Students
This intermediate fiction workshop led by Kaitlyn Greenidge is for committed writers of short and longer-form fiction with some previous workshop experience. Writers should come with projects that they are eager to workshop, and that are ready for peer feedback. Each student will workshop twice and meet once with the instructor for an individual conference following their in-class critiques.
Kaitlyn Greenidge received her MFA from Hunter College. Greenidge was the recipient of a Hertog Fellowship and the Bernard Cohen Short Story Prize. She was a Bread Loaf scholar, a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace artist-in-residence, and a Johnson State College visiting emerging writer. Her work has appeared in The Believer, The Feminist Wire, At Length, Fortnight Journal, Green Mountains Review, Afrobeat Journal, The Tottenville Review, and American Short Fiction. Her debut novel, We Love You, Charlie Freeman, was published by Algonquin Books in March 2016.
"Terrifically auspicious . . . Ms. Greenidge has charted an ambitious course for a book that begins so mock-innocently. And she lets the suspicion and outrage mount as the Freemans’ true situation unfolds. This author is also a historian, and she makes the ‘1929’ on Toneybee plaque tell another, equally gripping story that strongly parallels the Freemans’ 1990 experience."
". . . witty and provocative . . . Greenidge deftly handles a host of complex themes and characters, exploring not just how (literally) institutionalized racism is, but the difficulty of an effective response to it . . . Greenidge doesn’t march to a pat answer; the power of the book is in her understanding of how clarity wriggles out of reach. For all the seriousness of its themes, though, CHARLIE FREEMAN is also caustically funny."
"When you first step into the pages of Kaitlyn Greenidge’s wonderfully audacious debut novel, WE LOVE YOU, CHARLIE FREEMAN, you’re not quite sure where she’s going. Well, buckle up for an unforgettable journey."
"Kaitlyn Greenidge’s masterful debut novel WE LOVE YOU, CHARLIE FREEMAN is at heart an examination of race and language — an African-American family is hired by a New England research institute to raise and teach sign language to a chimpanzee, but the institute has a shockingly dark past. WE LOVE YOU, CHARLIE FREEMAN skillfully tackles history and heavy subjects with both humor and thoughtfulness; this book proves Greenidge will be a literary force to be reckoned with."
"This fantastic debut novel tackles important subjects—race and culture, language and communication—frankly and with grace. Kaitlyn Greenidge’s story follows an African-American family hired to teach sign language to a chimp, but a dark history follows the institute behind the experiment. CHARLIE FREEMAN has so many elements of a great read: thoughtful construction, precise prose, and a beating heart."
