University of Iowa

Anthony Varallo

Anthony Varallo is the author of This Day in History, winner of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award; Out Loud, winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize; Think of Me and I’ll Know (Northwestern University Press/TriQuarterly Books); and Everyone Was There, winner of the 2016 Elixir Press Fiction Prize, forthcoming in 2017 from Elixir Press. Currently he is an associate professor of English at the College of Charleston, where he is the fiction editor of Crazyhorse.

 

Instructor Events

The Three-Jump Story: A Writer’s Weekend Challenge

Weekend July 21 to July 22 2018

“Stories are either best written in one jump or three, according to length. The three-jump story should be done on three successive days, then a day or so for revision and off she goes. This of course is the ideal.”  —F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

First, Third, and (Sometimes) Second: A Point-of-View Fiction Workshop

Weeklong July 22 to July 27 2018

“The house of fiction has many windows, but only two or three doors. I can tell a story in the third person or in the first person, and perhaps the second person singular, or in the first-person plural, though successful examples of these latter two are rare indeed. And that is it. Anything else probably will not much resemble narration; it may be closer to poetry, or prose-poetry.”