5 Thursdays, Aug. 19-Sept. 16, 7-9:30 p.m.
$335 members/$365 non-members     Berkeley

If you’re already feel comfortable with the basics of fiction craft — plot, characters, details and specifics — but still want guidance and feedback, this class is a good choice. Instructor Jamey Genna will help you put your evolving knowledge into practice.  What more does your story  need? What special something ? “Each story is unique, with its own idiosyncratic needs,” says Jamey. “Once you’ve made it through a story outline or first draft, you’ve got to start digging deeper and ask yourself, Have I truly tapped into the heart of my story?”

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Hello Jane,

I am writing to tell you about the wonderful fiction workshop I took with Jamey Genna through the Writing Salon. I found Jamey to be an experienced and thoughtful teacher, structuring the class to cover basic, and later advanced, writing issues, bringing well-written and interesting stories into class for group analysis and discussion of writing craft. She brought many new writers to my attention in this way. Jamey’s classes introduced basic craft lessons for the beginning student and reinforced the skills of the advanced writers.

In the second part of the evening we shared our work with each other. Jamey’s class attracted a great circle of writers. The other students in the fiction workshop were helpful, insightful, friendly, never competitive. We all checked our egos at the door and got some real work done, giving and receiving constructive feedback on our writing.

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