Description
The poet William Matthews said, “Revision isn’t cleaning up after the party; it IS the party.” When authors first start writing fiction, they might dread the revision process. However, revision is where all the magic happens in your stories. The early drafts, our “glorious messes,” need to be sloppy and shaggy, brilliant and confounding. Then revision begins. And that’s when writers make their stories sing.
In this workshop, we will explore 10 practical tips for how to revise fiction. We will discuss revision in general, and attendees’ revision needs and questions in particular. After our time together, you too will believe that revision is the party, and you will want to join that party.
About Ann Hood
Ann Hood is the author of over a dozen novels, including the bestsellers The Knitting Circle, The Obituary Writer, and The Book That Matters Most. Her debut novel, the international bestseller Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine, has been in print since 1987.
She has also written five memoirs, including Comfort: A Journey Through Grief, which was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and one of the top ten non-fiction books of 2008 by Entertainment Weekly. Hood’s most recent novel, The Stolen Child, was published in May 2024.
Her essays and short stories have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Food and Wine, Traveler, National Geographic Traveler, The Paris Review, and many more.She has won two Pushcart Prizes, two Best American Food Writing awards, a Best American Travel Writing award, and a Best American Spiritual Writing award. Hood teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing program at The New School and is founder and co-director of The Newport. MFA low residency program.
