The Art of the Scene Led By Sheba Karim

Monday, December 5th, 2022 | 7 PM ET - 10 PM ET

Tuition | $50.00

Capacity: 20 Storytellers

Scenes are the building blocks of narrative fiction. But how we define scene? How do we go about constructing one that works best for our story? In this workshop, we will discuss ways to look at and understand the possibilities of scene and analyze scenes from published work. You’ll be asked to come to workshop with one or two scenes you’ve been working on, and we will engage in several writing exercises that will illustrate different ways to think about and approach your scenes, from shape to structure to setting, that can serve as tools to help you build your current and future stories.

ABOUT THE FACULTY: Sheba Karim is the author of the YA novels Skunk Girl, That Thing We Call a Heart, which made several Best Book lists including Bank Street and Kirkus, Mariam Sharma Hits the Road, a NPR Best Book of the Year, and The Marvelous Mirza Girls, winner of the South Asia Book Award. Her fiction and essays have been featured in 580 Split, Asia Literary Review, Femina, India Today, Literary Hub, Off Assignment, Shenandoah, South Asian Review, The Rumpus, Time Out Delhi and in several anthologies in the United States and India. She has an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is a Writer-in-Residence at Vanderbilt University.

Partial and full scholarships are available. Email scholarship inquiries to Info@RootsWoundsWords.org. Explicitly state the scholarship (partial or full) you’re interested in.

Closed Captioning available. Like all RWW offerings, this space is for Black, Indigenous, Latinx/e, Asian, and other Storytellers of Color only. BIPOC Storytellers are centered here, exclusively.