Fiction Workshop with Karen Joy Fowler

12:00pm-3:00pm (Pacific Time)

Sun July 21st, 2024

This course will meet online via Zoom

In this virtual fiction workshop, celebrated author Karen Joy Fowler will conduct a workshop for fiction writers. This workshop is open to writers who have a book length fiction project in progress.

Karen will work with up to 12 writers in this 3 hour course. The first part of the course will be an instructor led discussion of fiction writing. In the next part of the course participants will each describe their book project and Karen will give feedback. With time permitting there will be writing exercises to finish the course.

The registration fee is $150 for the workshop only, or $175 for the workshop plus a signed copy of Karen’s recent novel Booth.

Upon registration, participants will receive a welcome email with a Zoom link and more information including handouts from Karen’s workshop assistant, who will also be available to answer any questions and provide technical assistance.

This workshop is for writers with a book length work of fiction in progress. Participants will be required to submit a description of their project in advance.

Karen Joy Fowler is the New York Times bestselling author of seven novels and three short story collections. Her 2004 novel, The Jane Austen Book Club, spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler’s previous novel, Sister Noon, was a finalist for the 2001 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Her debut novel, Sarah Canary, won the Commonwealth medal for best first novel by a Californian, was listed for the Irish Times International Fiction Prize as well as the Bay Area Book Reviewers Prize, and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler’s short story collection Black Glass won the World Fantasy Award in 1999, and her collection What I Didn’t See won the World Fantasy Award in 2011. Her most recent novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, won the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction and was short-listed for the 2014 Man Booker Prize. Her new novel Booth published in March 2022 and was long-listed for the 2022 Booker Prize.

She is the co-founder of the Otherwise Award and the current president of the Clarion Foundation (also known as Clarion San Diego). Fowler and her husband, who have two grown children and seven grandchildren, live in Santa Cruz, California. Fowler also supports a chimp named Caesar who lives at the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Sierra Leone.