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Manuscript revision is a process. Some writers love it, others dread it, but every working writer knows that a polished manuscript has undergone multiple rounds of revision. But what revision approaches suit you and your work? How do you begin to literally “see again?” In this hands-on workshop, participants will explore two specific revision methods designed to reveal a variety of options for content and structural revision in their prose narratives.

Please bring between five and ten single-sided, printed draft manuscript pages of your own work to the workshop.  

This three hour workshop will include generative prompts, discussion, and hands-on revision of each participant’s draft work. Participants will leave the workshop with reading suggestions and actionable ideas for further revisions. 

Prose writers of all levels and all genres are welcome. 

Mickey Dubrow is the author of the novels Bulletproof, Always Agnes, and American Judas. For more than thirty years, he wrote award-winning television promos, marketing presentations, and scripts for various clients including Cartoon Network, TNT Latin America, HGTV, and CNN. He teaches classes on humor writing and often addresses book clubs. His personal essays and short stories have appeared in Prime Number Magazine, The Good Men Project, The Signal Mountain Review, Full Grown People, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. He is a contributor to the anthologies Works in Progress and Supernatural Streets. www.mickeydubrow.com.

Jessica Handler is the author of the novel The Magnetic Girl, winner of the 2020 Southern Book Prize and a nominee for the Townsend Prize for Fiction. The novel is one of the 2019 “Books All Georgians Should Read,” an Indie Next pick, Wall Street Journal Spring 2019 pick, Bitter Southerner Summer 2019 pick, and a Southern Independent Bookseller’s Association “Okra Pick.” Her memoir, Invisible Sisters, was also named one of the “Books All Georgians Should Read,” and her craft guide Braving the Fire: A Guide to Writing About Grief and Loss was praised by Vanity Fair magazine. Her writing has appeared on NPR, in Tin House, Drunken Boat, The Bitter Southerner, Electric Literature, Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, Newsweek, The Washington Post. Her novel, The World to See, is forthcoming from Regal House in 2026. She is a core member of the faculty at the West Virginia Wesleyan College low-residency MFA in Creative Writing, and was most recently the Ferrol Sams, Jr. Distinguished Writer in Residence at Mercer University in Macon, Ga. www.jessicahandler.com