Looking for constructive and insightful readers for your work-in-progress? Pick up your pens; roll up your sleeves. You’ve come to the right place.

In this seven-week online course with writer and journalist ANNA POLONYI, you will:

receive detailed, customized feedback on your manuscript
participate in craft discussions tailored to submitted work
explore key concepts, such as characterization, scene, plot and dialogue through craft essays and discussion
become comfortable applying time-tested methods for delivering high-quality, constructive feedback on work-in-progress

Based on the Iowa Writers’ Workshop model, this course is an intimate craft workshop designed for emerging and advanced writers. We will meet online to discuss works-in-progress, highlighting successful elements and areas for growth in order to help each writer achieve the ideal version of their draft.

This is a practice-based approach; the only reading we will do aside from craft essays are your own words. Each of the twelve participants can share up to 25 pages of original work, and will receive in-depth feedback from both instructor and participants. Excerpts from book-length projects welcome!

By the end of our time together, you will have acquired the skills to ask the hard questions of your own work, and will be armed with a roadmap for revising your draft.

As an instructor, Anna meets each piece of writing on its own terms and works closely with the writer to help articulate their vision for the piece, offering key resources and potential ways forward to achieve this vision.

ANNA POLONYI teaches creative writing with the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio and lives in Nantes, France, where she co-founded the Nantes Writers’ Workshop. She studied literature at Harvard and has an M.F.A. in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is a former Richard E. Guthrie Fellow and winner of the Sylvia Beach Short Fiction Award. Her writing has been supported by Manchester UNESCO City of Literature, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and a Fulbright for Young American Journalists. Wayword, a chapbook of her poems, is out with Finishing Line Press (US). She has written for Hidden Compass, The International New York Times, Foreign Policy and The Indypendent, among others.

Seven Weeks of Craft with writer Anna Polonyi