Instructor: Story Circle Network
Maximum Enrollment: 30
Class Term: 03/11/2026 - 03/11/2026
Tuition/Fees
SCN Member: $25
Non-Member: $35
Class description
In historical fiction, you want to stay true to the period but resonate with modern readers. To feel like life, not a history book. So, how do our characters’ words capture the era? How does society decree they will relate to each other? Can you create an accurate world without overwhelming description? We’ll explore shaping dialog, choosing vocabulary, and making the best use of our research. Whether you have an idea or a first draft, bring your characters to the workshop and be prepared to write.
Class communication method
This is a Zoom webinar held from 6:00pm-7:30pm Central Time.Class time commitment
90 MinutesInstructor bio
Terri Lewis was accepted to Sewanee Writers’ Conference and into juried workshops with Rebecca Makkai and Laura Van Den Berg. Published in Embark, Hippocampus, Denver Quarterly, and Chicago Quarterly Review, she reviews for The Washington Independent Review of Books. Her debut, Behold the Bird in Flight, A Novel of an Abducted Queen, tells the story of the second wife of King John of Magna Carta fame. Lewis won the 2025 Miami University Press Novella Prize.
