Litro Masterclass
Writing for an International Audience: Context, Voice and Specificity
On Saturday, September 19, I’m teaching a live Litro masterclass on writing identity, culture, place and belonging for readers beyond your immediate context — without sanding down what makes the work specific.
The session includes guided drafting, practical examples and a reusable context-cues method.
Saturday, September 19
4:00–5:15pm UK / 11:00am–12:15pm ET
Live on Zoom, capped at 15
MWPA
About Time: Handling Pacing and Movement in Fiction
Time in fiction is tricky to get right. We are restricted to a certain set of pages, and yet novels can span decades. In other moments, a scene or story might take place over a single night or day. How can a writer appropriately handle time in these instances? And how can he/she craft work that seamlessly travels between one scene or flashback and another?
Using The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long As It Takes (Graywolf Press) as our guide, we will look at flashforwards and flashbacks; pacing; scene breaks; and movement between scenes. We will study excerpts from Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife, exploring her brilliant use of time in fiction. We’ll also workshop our own pieces, paying particular attention to how time is handled in each writer’s submission.
Tuesdays from from 6-8 p.m.
October 13 to November 10
Live on Zoom
Megan Turner 
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