Beyond Realism: Writing the Magical, Cultural and Mythical 6-Week Zoom Workshop, Starts Thursday, October 3rd, 2024

Class Starts Thursday, October 3rd, 2024 Class will meet weekly via Zoom (Thursdays, 5PM EST - 7PM EST). Note: We will skip the week of Halloween and conclude on November 14th. Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button (lower left) to talk with us. Led by Pingmei Lan, whose work has appeared in The Florida Review, Blackbird, Epiphany, Smokelong Quarterly, Tahoma Literary Review and others. She is a winner of the 2019 PEN/DAU Best Debut Short Stories prize, a finalist in the Atlanta Review's 2019 International Poetry Competition and a 2021 Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the 2022 Nancy Zafris Memorial Scholar at the Kenyon Review Writers' Workshop. Get to know Pingmei in our Meet the Teaching Artist series. In this course, we will explore origin stories, family mythologies and read works from Carmen Maria Machado, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Yoko Ogawa, Aimee Bender, Nikolai Gogol to better understand where and how literature meets magic. Sample