MFA for All - Karen Russell: Other-than-Human Nature

Humans are often the protagonists of our literature, but we’re certainly not the center of the action on this spinning rock. What happens when a writer imaginatively inhabits a parrot, a stone, a baby monster, a body of water? What fresh narrative possibilities—and surprising challenges—arise when we write from the intersection of human and other-than-human nature in our fiction? We’ll study and discuss a diversity of approaches to building other-than-human characters into the world of a story or a novel, and we’ll also experiment with voice, tone, and form through a series of stylistic imitations and generative exercises.

Tuesday, December 3 & December 17
7 p.m. to 9 p.m. EST / 6 p.m. to 8 p.m CST