Through vivid rendering and action, scenes bring the page to life by drawing the reader into an emotional, sensory, and dramatic experience. This class will look at what a scene is and isn’t, and how scenes function as the building blocks of plot.
Hester Kaplan is the author of two story collections, The Edge ofMarriage,winner of the Flannery O’Connor Prize for Short Fiction, and Unravished, as well as the novels The Tell and Kinship Theory. Her fiction and non-fiction has been widely published and anthologized, including multiple times in The Best American Short Stories series, Agni, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, Southwest Review and many others. She is a recipient of an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, fellowships from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, the Salamander Prize for Fiction, and the McGinnis-Ritchie Award for Nonfiction, among other awards. She has taught at RISD, the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT, and Lesley University’s MFA Program in Creative Writing. She is co-founder of Goat Hill Writers, a literary production and education organization based in Rhode Island and can be found at www.hesterkaplan.com.
