Cooper Street Workshop: Making Magic – A Generative Speculative Fiction Workshop (Virtual)

About the Workshop

Ghosts, mysterious disappearances, talking animals, strange doublings. Adding a little magic to your short fiction can bring a story to life. It can help you explore old themes in new ways; discover deeper truths about your characters; and haunt the reader beyond the page. And it can be so much fun to write.

In this 3-hour class, we’ll discuss short stories and excerpts by masters of literary speculative fiction (including Karen Russell, Carmen Maria Machado, Laura van den Berg, and Helen Oyeyemi); explore related craft elements; and generate some writing of our own.

COST: $60 General, $10 Camden residents & Rutgers-Camden students

This is a virtual workshop held over Zoom.

About the Instructor

Rachel Ranie Taube is a writer living in Richmond, Virginia. She has been a Somerville Arts Council Fellow, a Sewanee Writers Workshop Contributor, a C.D. Wright / Nan Snow Emerging Writer, a Tent Creative Writing Fellow, and winner of the Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize. Her fiction, interviews, and essays have appeared in Literary Hub, Electric Literature, Catapult, The Millions, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and more. She received her MFA from UNC Wilmington, and she is the former: managing editor of Ecotone, editor-at-large of Cleaver, and editor-in-chief of Penn Review. Find her online at rachelranietaube.com.

This is a virtual workshop held over Zoom.