They’ll start with paper circuits and lil bits as they learn how electricity flows. Instructor: students from TED 647 Teaching and Learning in MakerspacesĬampers will explore simple circuitry as they build and create a puppet that can light up or make sounds. And you’ll go home with some tools you can use to write your next great work of fiction. By the end of camp, you’ll have a polished work to publish on our website. You’ll have the opportunity to share your work in a friendly, supportive environment and to help your fellow writers take their work to the next stage. In the second week, you’ll finish your draft and practice revising and editing. Then you’ll move on to drafting a story or novel chapter in any genre of fiction you like (realistic, fantasy, historical, science fiction, etc.). In the first week, we’ll do a range of fun activities and exercises to generate ideas. The class will take you through the major steps of writing fiction: finding story ideas, drafting, revising, and editing. Then we’ll learn how to bring these narrative elements to the page. How do stories draw us in and make us want to keep reading? In this class we’ll discuss the things writers do to create a compelling story-like set up a potent conflict, develop complicated characters, and show us vivid details. Although Grant directs the MFA program at American University in Washington, DC., she lives in Durham, North Carolina with her partner and twin daughters. She’s received fellowships and awards from the Rona Jaffee Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Revson Fellows Program for the Future of the City of New York at Columbia University. Her writing has been nominated for Great Britain’s Orange Prize, the Lambda Award for Best Lesbian Fiction, and the Massachusetts Book Award. Grant writes about female embodiment, which is to say she writes about women’s and girls’ bodies, including their sexuality and race, and how their bodies are frequently the place where struggles personal and political, existential and social get expressed in American culture. Disgust: A Memoir is her first work of nonfiction it was published in October 2021 by Scuppernong Editions, which is located here in Greensboro. Stephanie Grant is the author of two novels, The Passion of Alice (Houghton Mifflin) and Map of Ireland (Scribner).
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