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SUMMARY:More or Less: Minimalist & Maximalist Approaches to Fiction and Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Most aspiring writers are taught that\, when it comes to everything from descriptions to dialogue to interiority\, less is always more. But what if your instinctive sensibility is more expansive or discursive? Conversely\, what if you’re a naturally economical writer who sometimes feels strangled by this bias toward restraint and subtlety? In this craft workshop\, we will start with a brief overview of minimalist and maximalist approaches to fiction and poetry in history\, asking ourselves how and why these approaches have gone in and out of style. We will then look at a few texts by writers of literary fiction and poetry who have taken these approaches –  Susan Sontag\, Wayne Corbitt\, Rebecca Makkai\, and Octavia Butler\, among others – and used them to achieve deep emotional impact. Some of the questions we’ll explore: are the terms “minimalist” and “maximalist” even useful descriptors anymore and\, if not\, how can we make them so? How do we know which approaches are right for our own work?  \n\n\n\nThere is no advance reading necessary\, but please come with a hard copy or an electronic copy of the first page (300 words or so) of one of your own works of fiction\, or one poem\, and be willing to share them either with a partner or with the entire class. \n\n\n\nChristopher Castellani is the author of four novels\, most recently Leading Men\, for which he received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, MacDowell\, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, among others. His book of essays on narration\, The Art of Perspective: Who Tells the Story\, is taught in many writing workshops. Christopher is a longtime member of the faculty of the Warren Wilson MFA program and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and a recent Writer-in-Residence at Brandeis University. For his forthcoming novel\, Last Seen\, he was awarded a 2024 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in Boston and Provincetown\, MA.
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