How to Craft Compelling Opening Pages in Fiction 3-Week Zoom Intensive, Starts Tuesday, January 14th, 2025

Class Starts Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 Class will meet weekly via Zoom (Tuesdays, 6:00PM - 8:00PM Central).  Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button (lower left) to talk with us. Led by Antonio Ruiz-Camacho, a National Magazine Award finalist. His debut story collection Barefoot Dogs won the Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Book of Fiction, and was named a Best Book by Kirkus Reviews, San Francisco Chronicle, Texas Observer and PRI's The World. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, Texas Monthly, The Millions, and elsewhere. A former Knight Journalism fellow at Stanford University and a Dobie Paisano fellow in fiction by the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas Institute of Letters, he earned his MFA from The New Writers Project at UT Austin. A strong opening is the key to luring readers in — and winning them over. In this class, you'll learn the mechanics of compelling openings in fiction — and how to apply them in your own work. In this class, we wo