The East Village Fiction Workshop is a for serious writers of novels and short stories. (I also offer private editing and critiques of all forms of writing. Scroll down the blog posts for details.) I have extensive experience teaching fiction and writing, and I guarantee a lively, inspiring and supportive atmosphere to help your work flourish.
In The East Village Fiction Workshop, we critique your work on its own terms, exploring how the plot, characterizations, setting and style serve your themes, and how you can use the elements of the craft to further develop and polish your novel or story. Our primary mission is to workshop and critique the stories and novel chapters you bring to us. But you'll also get inspiring in-class exercises to help you flex your writing muscles and surprise yourself. (Flannery O'Connor: "If there are no surprises for the writer, how can there be any for the reader?") We'll read and discuss published writers as they pertain to your work. Your fellow-writers will offer you thorough written and verbal critiques of your stories or novel chapters, including both what already works, and what could be even better. As the instructor, I'll wrap up the discussions, as well as provide a thorough written critique and analysis of each of your stories and chapters.
The next session of The East Village Fiction Workshop is:
Wednesdays, 7:15 to 9:15 p.m.
September 17th through November 12th, 2008.
(We will skip two weeks, Oct. 1st and 8th, during the term.)
$300
($280 for returning participants)
Everyone will be critiqued at least twice. The class maximum is 12, minimum is 4.
Enrollment is on a first-come basis until the class fills. Payment (via paypal or check) reserves your place in the workshop.
To enroll in the East Village Fiction Workshop,
and for payment arrangements, future schedules, and directions to the workshop,
contact instructor Karen Moulding directly:
karenmnyc@earthlink.net
Please note: For the Winter 2009 term, the East Village Fiction Workshop travels to West Los Angeles! Enrollment details coming, or email Karen Moulding at kbm9@columbia.edu or karenmnyc@earthlink.net.
As always, private critiques and editing of all forms of writing will be available via email and snail mail.
About Me
- Karen Moulding
- Karen Moulding’s fiction and poetry have appeared in nerve.com, Fawlt Magazine, the Piedmont Literary Review, Spectrum, and more, and have been anthologized by Chronicle Books (Smut 2, the best of nerve.com), and STARbooks Press. She earned an MFA in Fiction at Columbia University, an MA in English at City College of New York, and, inexplicably, a law degree at Columbia University School of Law. She is Editor of the annually updated legal treatise, Sexual Orientation and the Law. She’s enjoyed Fellowships in fiction from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and the Napa Valley Writers Conference, and has taught fiction at The Writers Voice in New York City, Gotham Writers’ Workshop, and her own living room (the East Village Fiction Workshop). She was Teaching Assistant for the late poet Kenneth Koch at Columbia University. She has read her work at KGB Bar, Cornelia Street Café and other venues in New York City, and at Tongue and Groove (Hotel Café) and Universal Bar and Grill in Los Angeles. She lives in New York City (mostly) and/or Los Angeles and is the single mother of a bizarrely literate and adorably hammy three year old girl named Fin.