OWC 310 — One-on-one Tutorial: Novel
Summer
Date(s)
Jun 22—Aug 28
10 weeks
Drop By
Jun 8
3 Units
Fees
$2000
Limit
8
Closed
This course is not open to the public, but rather by admission only. For more information on the Online Writing Certificate Program and its application process, please click here.
The One-on-One Tutorial will bring together Certificate students and accomplished fiction writers in one-on-one pairs for an intensive ten-week tutorial. After each student-instructor pair establishes the goals of the tutorial, and creates a schedule of deadlines and meeting times, the student will have the opportunity to get feedback on their manuscript, in order to finish and/or revise it. There is a 100,000 word limit for manuscripts submitted for the One-on-One Tutorial. Manuscripts exceeding this limit are subject to approval and additional fees will apply.
The One-on-One Tutorial will bring together Certificate students and accomplished fiction writers in one-on-one pairs for an intensive ten-week tutorial. After each student-instructor pair establishes the goals of the tutorial, and creates a schedule of deadlines and meeting times, the student will have the opportunity to get feedback on their manuscript, in order to finish and/or revise it. There is a 100,000 word limit for manuscripts submitted for the One-on-One Tutorial. Manuscripts exceeding this limit are subject to approval and additional fees will apply.
Angela Pneuman, Former Stegner Fellow, Stanford
Angela Pneuman is the author of the novel Lay It on My Heart and the short story collection Home Remedies. Her fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories, The Believer, Ploughshares, and The Los Angeles Review. She is also a contributor to Salon. Pneuman received a PhD in writing from SUNY Albany.Malena Watrous, Former Stegner Fellow, Stanford; Online Writing Lead Instructor, Stanford Continuing Studies
Malena Watrous is the author of the novel If You Follow Me, which received a Michener-Copernicus award. She frequently reviews books for such publications as The New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. She received an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow. She has taught writing at the University of Iowa, Stanford, and the University of San Francisco.Valerie Ford Brelinski, Former Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer, Stanford
Valerie Brelinski’s novel, The Girl Who Slept with God, is forthcoming this year. Her writing has been published in The Rumpus, Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, Confrontation, and Green Mountains Review. She has taught creative writing at Stanford and the University of Virginia. She received an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Virginia.Sarah Stone, Faculty, Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers
Sarah Stone is the author of the novel The True Sources of the Nile and co-author of the textbook Deepening Fiction: A Practical Guide for Intermediate and Advanced Writers. Her stories and essays have appeared in Ploughshares; StoryQuarterly; The Writer’s Chronicle; Dedicated to the People of Darfur: Writings on Fear, Risk, and Hope; and A Kite in the Wind: Fiction Writers on Their Craft, among other places. She received an MFA in fiction from the University of Michigan.Wendy Nelson Tokunaga, Author
Wendy Nelson Tokunaga is the author of Love in Translation, Midori by Moonlight, the self-published novel No Kidding, which received a Writer’s Digest award. Tokunaga received a BA in psychology from San Francisco State and an MFA in writing from the University of San Francisco. She is currently at work on her next novel.Joshua Mohr, Author
Joshua Mohr’s newest novel is Fight Song. He is also the author of the novels Termite Parade, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and Some Things That Meant the World to Me, an O, The Oprah Magazine Terrific Read of 2009 and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. His short stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, 7x7, the Bay Guardian, ZYZZYVA, The Rumpus, and The Nervous Breakdown, among other publications. Mohr received an MFA from the University of San Francisco.Deborah Johnson, Author
Deborah Johnson’s new novel is The Secret of Magic. Her previous novel, The Air Between Us, received the Mississippi Library Association Award for Fiction. She has been a translator and editor, a broadcaster at Vatican Radio, and director of the Colom Foundation in Columbus, Mississippi. She attended Lone Mountain College in San Francisco.Textbooks for this course:
No required textbooks