The workshops with Bret Lott will cover the basics of writing fiction: Technique, inspiration, the importance of dialog, setting, action and plot. This is open to people working in fiction--short stories and novels--and will be accompanied by informational handouts and prompts. Attention will also be paid to how to publish your work. Be ready to share what you will have written!
About the presenter:
Bret Lott is the author of fourteen books, most recently the essay collection Letters and Life: On Being a Writer, On Being a Christian (Crossway, 2013) and the novel Dead Low Tide (Random House, 2012). He received his MFA in fiction from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1984, studying under Jay Neugeboren and James Baldwin.
From 1986 to 2004 he was writer-in-residence and professor of English at The College of Charleston, leaving to take the position of editor and director of the journal The Southern Review at Louisiana State University. Three years later, in the fall of 2007, he returned to The College of Charleston and the job he most loves: teaching.
From 2006 to 20313 he served as a member of the National Council on the Arts. He is also director of the Spoleto Summer Study Abroad program in English at the College.
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