Deep Revision with Katey Schultz

Tuesday(s) October 7, 14 & 21, 6-8pm CT, via Zoom
Nonmember $150; Member $129; Student/Educ/Mil $105

*EARN CPEs

TWO SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE

Calling all experienced writers looking to level up! Give your written work a power boost and learn to revise like a pro.

This three-session workshop is designed to empower writers with revision techniques for memoir, essays, flash, short stories, or novels. Whether trying to revise a stand-alone chapter or considering the broader arc of your full manuscript, these techniques are graspable, effective, and empowering.

We’ll cover these types of revision: thematic, developmental, sentence-level, and structural. You’ll practice each technique using excerpts from your own work in progress, which you should bring with you to class. You’ll come away with systematic tools to address areas for improvement, as well as a re-invigorated understanding of the joys of revision.

This course is for intermediate or advanced writers who have, at minimum, worked through a partial or complete first draft of a full manuscript, or who have published books and are ready to improve their next manuscript by learning how to become their own best editors.

Students will leave this class with:

An increased confidence in your ability to apply developmental, sentence-level, and structural revision techniques to your works-in-progress
A re-invigorated understanding of the joys of revision and the key role it plays in the writing process

Katey Schultz is the author of Flashes of War, which the Daily Beast praised as an “ambitious and fearless” collection, and Still Come Home, a novel, both published by Loyola University Maryland. Honors for her work include North Carolina’s Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, the Linda Flowers Literary Award, Doris Betts Fiction Prize, Foreword INDIES Book of the Year award, gold and silver medals from the Military Writers Society of America, the Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year award, five Pushcart nominations, a nomination to Best American Short Stories, National Indies Excellence recognition, and writing fellowships in eight states. She has taught all over the country—at Interlochen College of Creative Arts, Fishtrap, 49 Alaska Writing Center, StoryStudio Chicago, and her own organization Maximum Impact, among many others. She lives in Celo, North Carolina, and is the founder of Maximum Impact, a transformative mentoring service for creative writers that has been recognized by both CNBC and the What Works Network.