Writing Workshops Los Angeles offers courses and one-on-one instruction to those interested in honing their fiction writing skills. Workshops are held in the home of the course instructor. In our classes, fiction is discussed from a craft perspective, and we delve deeply into the techniques of story, character, prose, structure, and so on. At Writing Workshops Los Angeles, we value aesthetic daring, and we strive to read student manuscripts with both our highest standards and an open mind. Classes are small, and always fun, and there are refreshments (wine, sparkling water), and sometimes even gourmet cheeses, to keep us going.
Short Fiction Workshops begin roughly every ten weeks, while a novel workshop is offered every fifteen.
Edan Lepucki
Workshops Los Angeles was founded by Edan Lepucki. Ms. Lepucki holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and she has taught at the University of Iowa, Oberlin College, Gotham Writers’ Workshop, Vroman’s Bookstore’s Education Program, and UCLA Extension. She has published short fiction in the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Meridian, Cutbank, Narrative Magazine, Avery, FiveChapters, and the Los Angeles Review, and she is a regular contributor to The Millions, a popular website about literature and culture. She has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, the Ucross Foundation, and the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. She is the winner of the 2009 James D. Phelan Award from the Intersection for the Arts and the San Francisco Foundation. She has recently finished a novel.
Leslie Parry
Leslie Parry is a new instructor at Writing Workshops Los Angeles, and she will be teaching the Short Fiction Workshop in winter 2010. Ms. Parry holds a BFA from New York University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow in Fiction. She has taught writing at the University of Iowa, the Iowa Arts Summer Program, Vroman’s Bookstore’s Education Program, and was a featured speaker at the Midwest Literary Festival. Her fiction has appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review. She is currently at work on a novel.