Freewriting Intensive: Fiction + Creative Nonfiction

Do you have story or essay ideas but don’t know where to start? Are you wondering what to do with those completed drafts that need revision? Or, maybe you’re a first-time writer looking for a way into the work? We will break down specific craft elements and then use what we’ve learned to delve deeper and complicate our initial ideas.

Special Notes

• Classes are confirmed one week prior to the start date. In order to help us confirm classes, please register as early as possible.
   
  This studio is not wheel chair accessible from the interior due to two steps, but is accessible through an exterior door.
   
   
  On-site courses do not come with studio access outside of class time. Paid open studio access is available through our Studio Access Program. Please visit visarts.org for more information.
   
  

About the Instructor

April Sopkin

April Sopkin writes fiction and personal essays. She has been awarded a 2023 Elizabeth George Foundation grant to fund the completion of her short story collection. Her work has appeared in Joyland, Black Telephone Magazine, MIT Technology Review, Carve, Southern Indiana Review, and elsewhere. She was a 2019 Tin House Scholar and her work has won the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest, the Patricia Aakhus Award, and the Frank McCourt Memoir Prize. April’s work has also been supported by fellowships and artist residencies, including the Tin House Summer Workshop, TENT: Creative Writing at the Yiddish Book Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

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