Writing Fiction with The New York Times

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Have you ever dreamed of having your writing reviewed by the staff of The New York Times Book Review? Here’s your chance. In this exciting course, Scott Hutchins, lead instructor for The Online Writer’s Studio, will co-teach a fiction workshop with Dana Jennings of The New York Times Book Review. Over the course of the term, students will study the craft of fiction with both Hutchins and Jennings. Students will complete weekly writing exercises, culminating in a longer work of fiction that Jennings will critique. Reading will also be a key emphasis here. Hutchins will help students write their short stories and novel excerpts, which will be the backbone of the course, and Jennings will take students through a novel he recently reviewed, illuminating what he thinks makes it work or not. For short story writers and novelists, this is an opportunity not to be missed.

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Scott Hutchins, Former Stegner Fellow and Capote Fellow

Scott Hutchins in the lead instructor for The Online Writer’s Studio. His fiction has appeared in Story Quarterly, Esquire.com, and Five Chapters, and has recently been set to music. He received two major Hopwood Awards and was an artist-in-residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.

Dana Jennings, Feature Writer, The New York Times

Dana Jennings’ writing has appeared in many sections of The New York Times, including the Book Review, Week in Review, Education Life, and Arts & Leisure. His new book, What a Difference a Dog Makes: Big Lessons on Love, Life and Healing From a Small Pooch, grew out of his “Well” columns and will be published in 2010 by Doubleday. Jennings has written five other books, including three novels, a children’s book, and a book of cultural criticism/memoir called Sing Me Back Home: Love, Death & Country Music. He also spent five summers teaching journalism at Phillips Exeter Academy.