This three-part webinar series explores how writers can play with time to add depth, complexity, and emotional power to short stories and novels. Fiction writer and Iowa Writers’ Workshop alum Andrew Steiner begins by visually charting several different paths stories take through time, from the cleanly linear to the freer and more associative. The second and third videos focus on two masterpieces of short fiction to examine the surprising and bold ways they move their tales through time. Throughout, the viewer will be given concrete, practical steps for using time to unlock the dramatic potential in their own stories. Authors discussed include Alice Munro, Kazuo Ishiguro, Edwidge Danticat, Denis Johnson, and Joan Silber.
Andrew Steiner was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In 2022 he received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. In his mid-20s he left a nonprofit career to work on a small vegetable farm, providing the setting for his first novel, Let This Remain, represented by The Wylie Agency. His short fiction has been published in Narrative, Epoch, and Grain and is forthcoming in The Common. He currently lives in Germany.
Shape of Time in Fiction with Andrew Steiner
This three-part webinar series explores how writers can play with time to add depth, complexity, and emotional power to short stories and novels. Fiction writer and Iowa Writers’ Workshop alum Andrew Steiner begins by visually charting several different paths stories take through time, from the cleanly linear to the freer and more associative. The second and third videos focus on two masterpieces of short fiction to examine the surprising and bold ways they move their tales through time. Throughout, the viewer will be given concrete, practical steps for using time to unlock the dramatic potential in their own stories. Authors discussed include Alice Munro, Kazuo Ishiguro, Edwidge Danticat, Denis Johnson, and Joan Silber.
Andrew Steiner was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In 2022 he received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. In his mid-20s he left a nonprofit career to work on a small vegetable farm, providing the setting for his first novel, Let This Remain, represented by The Wylie Agency. His short fiction has been published in Narrative, Epoch, and Grain and is forthcoming in The Common. He currently lives in Germany.
