Event

Deckle Edge 17 Workshop - The Next Draft: Revising and Polishing Your Manuscript

Description: While "we are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master" (Ernest Hemingway), we owe it to our work to make it the best it can be. This session explores how to hone a draft into a publishable work. Sharing personal feedback received in M.F.A. workshops and from editors, Carla Damron will describe the complex revision process, examining both "big picture" problems and micro issues.

About the instructor: South Carolinian Carla Damron is a fiction writer, clinical social worker, and author of the novel The Stone Necklace, the 2016 One Book, One Community "big read" for Columbia and Richland County, South Carolina. Damron is also the author of the Caleb Knowles mystery novels Keeping Silent, Spider Blue, and Death in Zooville. Her short stories have appeared in Fall Lines, Six Minute Magazine, Melusine, In Posse Review, and other journals. Named the 2014 South Carolina Social Worker of the Year, Damron holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from Queens University and a master's degree in social work from the University of South Carolina.