Webinar

In this webinar, you will learn the crucial element for creating socially layered, culturally nuanced, and ultimately compelling stories: context. Through lecture, discussion, and examples, you will explore how to successfully provide socio-cultural background and maximize your setting in ways that benefit the narrative. As a class, we will discuss concrete approaches to ensure any contextual elements fit smoothly into the story, heighten tension, enrich plot, and deepen characters. You will leave with a set of practical tools to better layer your fiction and always have context be an ally.

Dariel Suarez is the Cuban-born author of the novel The Playwright’s House (forthcoming, Red Hen Press) and the story collection A Kind of Solitude (Willow Springs Books), winner of the 2017 Spokane Prize for Short Fiction and the 2019 International Latino Book Award for Best Collection of Short Stories. Dariel is one of City of Boston’s inaugural Artist Fellows and the Director of Core Programs and Faculty at GrubStreet. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Threepenny Review, The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Michigan Quarterly Review, Third Coast, Southern Humanities Review, and The Caribbean Writer, where his work was awarded the First Lady Cecile de Jongh Literary Prize. He holds an M.F.A. in Fiction from Boston University and currently resides in the Boston area with his wife and daughter.

WHERE: On the internet! You can login from anywhere.

WHEN: Wednesday, April 14, 2021, 7:00-8:00 PM EDT

COST: $20 for members/$30 for nonmembers. Register now to ensure your spot in the class using the “Register Now” button below.