Emma Cline & Setting
What makes the world?
Tomorrow, from 1pm -4pm, I’ll be teaching a class on Emma Cline and the use of setting in her fiction. There are full and partial scholarships. If you’re a fan of Cline, want to learn how to better use setting in your work, want to think about limits as benevolent mirrors, then sign up at the link, or email Kate for scholarships.
Kyle Dillon Hertz is the author of The Lookback Window, a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Vanity Fair named The Lookback Window one of the best novels of 2023. His work can be found in Esquire, Freeman’s, Time, and elsewhere. He received his MFA from NYU and a residency from Yaddo. He teaches at The New School.
When creating written worlds, a writer must consider the impact of the setting upon the narrator. We write characters. Characters have bodies. Bodies have to be somewhere. But how do we create moving, impactful scenery? What are the methods for creating and exploring the background of a story? In this one-day craft class, we will look at Emma Cline's settings and learn the ways that she uses the world around her characters to impact the actual events of the story, treating setting the way other writers treat plot. We will look at Emma Cline's short stories and The Guest.
Workshop Highlights:
Writers will leave this course with multiple examples of how settings create atmosphere and impacts the plot of a story, which will include looking at a dozen examples from Emma Cline
Writers will get a deeper understanding of place and setting in a story, and will have transferable methods of creation for their own work
Writers will have a Q&A at the end of class to address their questions about setting and place in their own work
2 full and 2 half scholarships available. For information, please contact Kate Mabus, kate@theshipmanagency.com