Instructor: Ben Shattuck
Monday - Wednesday
July 29 - 31
1:00pm - 4:00pm
3 sessions

This is a three-day course focused on generating -rather than workshopping- historical fiction. Using writing prompts and exercises, assignments, readings, and self-directed research, participants will leave the course with the seeds for larger writing projects. We'll discuss the purpose of and place for historical fiction today, and how stories can transcend time altogether.

Ben Shattuck is the author of Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau, which was a New Yorker Best Book of 2022, a Wall Street Journal Best Book of Spring, a New York Times Best Book of Summer, and a New England Indie Bestseller. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and winner of the PEN America Short Story Prize and a Pushcart Prize. His forthcoming book of stories, The History of Sound, will be published in July 2024. He is also the director and founder of the Cuttyhunk Island Writers’ Residency.

Book info: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/703118/the-history-of-sound-by-ben-shattuck/

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