Writing Workshops Los Angeles offers courses and one-on-one instruction to those interested in honing their fiction and nonfiction writing skills. Workshops are held in the home of the course instructor. In our classes, work 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 and tasty snacks, to keep us going.
Short Fiction and Nonfiction Workshops begin roughly every ten weeks, while a novel workshop is offered every fifteen.
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.
Edan Lepucki
Leslie Parry has been teaching for Writing Workshops Los Angeles since early 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.
Leslie Parry
Carolyn Kellogg is the newest instructor at Writing Workshops Los Angeles, and she will be teaching our first creative nonfiction course this June. Kellogg, who writes about books for the Los Angeles Times, holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh. She has taught at the University of Pittsburgh and in UCLA Extension’s Writers’ Program. Her work is regularly read online and in print at the Los Angeles Times and other venues, and can be heard on NPR. She was a judge of the 2010 Story Prize, the Library of Congress’s Letters to Literature Contest, USC’s Wonderland Prize and the Morning News Tournament of Books. Work by Ms. Kellogg is upcoming in Black Clock and a Red Hen Press anthology about California.
Carolyn Kellogg