Michael Cunningham Masters Class

The incredible Amy Bloom ’76 and less-so-but-working-on-it Izzy Rode ’14 at the Shapiro Creative Writing Center are excited to announce:

Apply for a masters class with Michael Cunningham this spring!

Michael Cunningham is the author of the novels A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, The Hours (winner of the Pen/Faulkner Award & Pulitzer Prize), Specimen Days, and By Nightfall, as well as the non-fiction book, Land’s End: A Walk in Provincetown. His next book, The Snow Queen, comes out in May, 2014. He lives in New York, and teaches at Yale University and now is offering a series of Master Classes, 2.5 hours on 3 Wednesday nights at 167 High Street, Shapiro Center for Creative Writing. Dinner will follow after the first and third class. Space is limited to 12 students; seats will be filled on a rolling basis.

The dates are as follows:

February 5th

March 5th
April 16th

No fee, no credit–just extraordinary honor and opportunity.

Application Requirements:

A cover letter: why you want to take this class and two books you have loved–and why.

Fiction sample (No more than 10 pages)

Must have taken at least one fiction-writing workshop previously.

Must commit to attending all 3 workshops. No exceptions.

Please send these documents to Amy Bloom at amy[at]amybloom[dot]com, no later than November 18.