Stories that connect

November 3, 10, 17, 24, December 1 and 8

This is a course for writers who want to explore the intersection between the novel and short stories, and would like to weave their short stories into a story cycle (or collection of "linked stories" or "composite novel"). This is also a class about the interaction of form and content, and how one influences the other. We will read works of interlinked stories by writers from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds, focusing on modern classics and contemporary practitioners of these hybrid forms. Weekly discussions will center on elements of craft, such as the expansion and compression of time, setting as an organizing and connecting principle, character development within and between stories, structure and plot for interconnected stories, and responding to literary influences in the same genre.

About yimin:

Yimin Huang is an MFA graduate from the University of San Francisco and an author and poet. Her short stories have been selected as finalists for Singapore's Writing The City Showcase 2021 and 2022. Her writings have also been published in Neocha, The Hooghly Review, Expat Living, Hey! Young Writer and Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. Her poetry collection Estrangement is available on Barnes & Noble online and Amazon. She is currently working on a short story collection on the Chinese diaspora. Follow her on Instagram @tori_minz.