Peter Ho Davies’ most recent books are the novel A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and The Art of Revision: The Last Word, his first work of nonfiction. Other books include the novels The Fortunes, winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Award; and the The Welsh Girl, long-listed for the Booker Prize and a London Times bestseller; as well as two critically acclaimed collections of short stories. A recipient of the PEN/Malamud and PEN/Macmillan awards, his fiction has appeared in Harpers, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and Granta, and has been anthologized in O. Henry Prize Stories and The Best American Short Stories. Born in Britain to Welsh and Chinese parents, he now teaches in the Helen Zell MFA Program at the University of Michigan.
Workshop
Writers Behaving Badly
Paradoxically, while there are many, often helpful “rules of thumb” for writing good fiction— show don’t tell, write what you know, etc—writers, at heart, are rule breakers. In this class we'll consider some of the unspoken “you-can’t-write-that” rules that censor our work . . . and then set out to break them. A workshop for those just getting started, those starting anew, and those looking for a jump-start.
