Year-Long Fiction Writing Project with Junauda Petrus

Your novel is a journey of self discovery, creative research, story channeling and communing with the souls of the realm you are bringing into tangible, literary existence. It is written while living and being present to your life and the ways that the novel is singing through your existence. Writing a novel is very emotionally and creatively athletic, and takes the time it takes. Novel writing because of their length and depth invites us to commune and live with mysterious realms within and beyond us. This Year-Long Project will support you in creating a life that allows the novel you want to write to flow and hum within you and then on to  the page. All meetings will take place online via live video sessions on Zoom.

Students will have one month of independent study time between the final summer meeting and the start of the fall cohort meetings (August 20-September 16) and between the final fall meeting and the start of winter cohort meetings (December 10-January 9). This time is to be used for independent writing time, focusing on aspects of craft your teaching mentor feels will help your development as a writer; deep reading, of your own work as well as books outside of the cohort reading list that will benefit your writing; one to one meetings with your teaching mentor; writing group meetings with your cohort members.

• Carvell Wallace
• Candice Iloh
• Shannon Gibney
• Alexis De Veaux
• Sharon Bridgforth
• Joseph Earl Thomas
• Andrew Carr, Editor

• for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange