Illuminate Your Manuscript: Writing Faith in Fiction

Illuminate Your Manuscript: Writing Faith in Fiction

What do your characters believe in? What guides them? What/who do they worship? In this

class, we'll take at look at the role of faith (religious or not) in building sturdy and complex

characters. We will explore how and why by examining writing by Deeshaw Philyaw, Monica

West, Mary Miller, and Nicole Krauss, as well as engaging with prompts and in discussion.

Our teach for this class, Chanel Dubofsky, has taught writing for Lilith, Vermont College of Fine Arts (where she earned

an MFA in Fiction in 2015) and online. He non-fiction writing on reproductive health, religion,

and pop culture can be found in New York Magazine, Mashable, and others. She appears in the

documentary My So-Called Selfish Life, about the choice to be childfree, and lives in Brooklyn,

New York.