Have your sentences been feeling a little flimsy? Have your paragraphs been lagging and slogging, slogging and lagging? If so, you might be due for a language workout. This class will take you through a rigorous but playful back-to-the-basics study of language use in prose through discussion, examples of published prose, and a set of interactive exercises. The end goal is practicality—for you to leave the session with ideas, approaches, or passages that you can immediately apply to your current projects.
Joseph Scapellato is the author of the novel, The Made-Up Man, and the story collection, Big Lonesome. He was born in the western suburbs of Chicago and earned his MFA in Fiction at New Mexico State University. His fiction and nonfiction appear in Literary Hub, Electric Literature, North American Review, Kenyon Review Online, No Tokens, and other places. Joseph teaches in the creative writing program at Bucknell University and lives in Lewisburg, PA, with his wife, daughter, and dog.
