4-Week Series
You'll find loads of creative inspiration for your writing as we look at paintings and photographs in this special class. See examples of ekphrastic writing that has been turned into best-selling novels and blockbuster movies. And use visual art provided by your instructor as your own prompt in productive freewriting sessions.
Donna Baier Stein is the author of The Silver Baron's Wife (PEN/New England Discovery Award, Foreword Reviews Winner), Sympathetic People (Iowa Fiction Award Finalist), Letting Rain Have Its Say, and Scenes from the Heartland. A Founding Editor of Bellevue Literary Review, she publishes Tiferet Journal. She has received a Bread Loaf Scholarship, Johns Hopkins University Fellowship, and other awards. Donna’s writing appears in Virginia Quarterly Review, Saturday Evening Post, Writer's Digest, and other journals as well as in I've Always Meant to Tell You (Pocket Books) and To Fathers: What I've Never Said (featured in O Magazine).