UTV Master Classes
January 12-28, 2024
While specific master classes differ slightly in format, they share a common goal: to offer highly motivated writers an intensely sympathetic reading of their work, with strategic suggestions for revision. We encourage all participants to respond to each other’s work and to each other in the same spirit.
Registration for all master classes is limited to 8. Groups meet three times a week for a total of six 3-hour sessions. You will also meet at least once one-to-one with your instructor.
Please choose from the menu below in making your selection. Click on each image for a full description.
Fiction
Fiction
with Sheree Renée Thomas
For writers of speculative fiction, short and long. Find the deep magic that makes your work sing for the reader.
Narrativa
con Alberto Chimal
Un taller de creación nueva y puesta en escena de textos anteriores. Para cuentistas y/o novelistas.
Poetry
Poetry
with Jennifer Clement
This workshop is based on Gustave Flaubert’s sense that a writer can imagine anything. It is often in the confluence of contradiction, found in metaphor and simile, where the most profound human experiences can be found. Fiction writers who also write poetry, as well as poets who also write fiction, are particularly welcome.
Poesía
con Rafael Segovia
Para cualquier escritor, la poesía es un exigente reto disfrazado de libertad. Al parecer, expresarse poéticamente debe ser un ejercicio espontáneo y nacido de la inspiración.
Writing of Witness
Writing Of Witness
with Elizabeth Rosner
For those whose work arises from deep personal experience and radiates out to address the larger issues around it. Open to those working both short and long.
Escritura y testimonio
con Sandra Lorenzano
Para escritores con proyectos que nacen de la experiencia personal, con un alcance que llega a tocar los temas sociales implicados. Para ensayistas, cronistas, periodistas y quienes inventan formas nuevas.
Journalism
Journalism
with Mariane Pearl
This master class offers early career journalists from Mexico, the US and elsewhere the opportunity to look beyond breaking news stories to unpack the root causes behind them.
Manuscript Coaching
Poetry Manuscript Coaching
with Keetje Kuipers
A small intensive format for poets with manuscripts ready for an expert eye. This will be a mixture of one-on-one consultations and group manuscript workshops. Open to both full-length and chapbook-length manuscripts-in-progress.
Prose Manuscript Coaching
with Jennifer Clement
A small intensive format for writers with book-length projects ready for an expert eye, primarily via individual consultations. Open to both fiction and non-fiction projects.
Coaching en narrativa
con Socorro Venegas
Un taller más íntimo para escritores con libros en puerta, con una lectura a fondo mayormente a través de consultas individuales. Para proyectos de narrativa y no-ficción.