Fall Craft Intensive: Jamel Brinkley

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Narrative Generosity: Ways to Address the Problem of Narcissism in Fiction Writing with Jamel Brinkley
Saturday, December 9th
11 AM – 2 PM PST/ 2 PM – 5 PM EST
Online

In this intensive—which is also secretly a craft class about point of view, character, and voice—we will generate creative responses to excerpts of stories by authors such as James Alan McPherson, Edward P. Jones, and Danielle Evans, as well as ideas inspired by the writing and thinking of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ann Petry, Marilynne Robinson, and Charles D’Ambrosio. Our aim? To explore methods and mindsets that can help counter certain unwittingly narrow, narcissistic tendencies, and to make our own narratives more generous, compassionate, democratic, and complex.

Scholarship
The scholarship for this intensive has already been awarded.

BIO: Jamel Brinkley is the author of Witness: Stories, forthcoming in August 2023 from Farrar, Straus and Giroux (US)/4th Estate (UK), and A Lucky Man: Stories (2018, Graywolf Press), which was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Story Prize, the John Leonard Prize, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; and winner of a PEN Oakland Award and the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. His writing has appeared in A Public Space, Ploughshares, Zoetrope: All-Story, The Paris Review, American Short Fiction, The Threepenny Review, Gulf Coast, Glimmer Train, The Believer, and Tin House, and has been anthologized twice in The Best American Short Stories. His work has also received support from the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, the Tin House Summer Workshop, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Lannan Foundation. He was a Carol Houck Smith Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and has received an O. Henry Award and the Rome Prize. Raised in Brooklyn and the Bronx, he teaches at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.