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Get your writing on track in the New Year with these six weekly sessions with Heather Newton, Thursdays noon to 1:30pm starting January 9th. We will meet in person at the Flatiron Writers Room unless Asheville City Schools delays or cancels classes due to inclement weather, in which case we will convene on Zoom. Over the course of the six weeks we will read together Clare Keegan’s beautiful short novel Small Things Like These (128 pages—please read the first 20 pages before the first class). Each week we’ll spend the first 15 minutes of class discussing a scene from the novel that you can use as a template for that day’s writing on your work in progress (or you can come prepared with your own “writing assignment”). We will then spend an hour writing communally, with time at the end to share. After the last class session we’ll head to a nearby eatery to celebrate what we’ve created (meal cost not included). We hope you’ll leave this class with new pages and new writer friends! Fiction and non-fiction writers welcome. Space limited to 8 students. 

Flatiron Writers Room co-founder Heather Newton’s novel The Puppeteer's Daughters (Turner Publishing 2022) won the NC Indie Author Project book award for adult fiction, was a finalist for the Forword INDIES Book of the Year and was optioned for television. Her short story collection McMullen Circle (Regal House 2022), was a finalist for both the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award and the W.S. Porter prize. Her novel Under The Mercy Trees (HarperCollins 2011) won the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award, was chosen by the Women’s National Book Association as a Great Group Reads Selection and by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance as an Okra Pick (“great southern fiction fresh off the vine”). She teaches creative writing for UNC Asheville’s Great Smokies Writing Program and Charlotte Lit as well as the Flatiron Writers Room.