Character Building with Audrey Niffenegger
Saturday, February 8 and Sunday, February 9, 2025
10am to 4pm
About the Workshop
This is a workshop for fiction writers, or anyone interested in creating characters for comics, graphic novels, creative non-fiction, etcetera. Students will concentrate on techniques for building groups of characters with complex interior lives and interesting relationships.
Prior to the 2-day workshop, students will submit up to twenty pages (5000 words) of their work to Audrey Niffenegger by Saturday, February 1st. Writing examples should ideally feature characters you would like to continue working with; excerpts of unfinished work would be ideal.
This workshop will include writing exercises, sharing in-class writing out loud, and discussions of students’ projects. The emphasis is on developing characters and using them effectively.
There will be a lunch break from noon to 1:00. Limited to 12 students.
About Audrey Niffenegger
Audrey Niffenegger is an internationally known author and artist, and the founder of Artists Book House. A founder of the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts (CCCBPA), she taught printing, creative writing, and visual narrative as a professor in its MFA program for many years.
In 2003 she released The Time Traveler’s Wife with the independent publisher MacAdam/Cage. It was an international best seller, and has since been made into a movie. Her second novel, Her Fearful Symmetry, was published in 2009 by Scribner (USA), Jonathan Cape (UK) and many other fine publishers around the world. She is currently working on the sequel to The Time Traveler’s Wife, with the working title The Other Husband.
Saturday, February 8 and Sunday, February 9, 2025
10am to 4pm
About the Workshop
This is a workshop for fiction writers, or anyone interested in creating characters for comics, graphic novels, creative non-fiction, etcetera. Students will concentrate on techniques for building groups of characters with complex interior lives and interesting relationships.
Prior to the 2-day workshop, students will submit up to twenty pages (5000 words) of their work to Audrey Niffenegger by Saturday, February 1st. Writing examples should ideally feature characters you would like to continue working with; excerpts of unfinished work would be ideal.
This workshop will include writing exercises, sharing in-class writing out loud, and discussions of students’ projects. The emphasis is on developing characters and using them effectively.
There will be a lunch break from noon to 1:00. Limited to 12 students.
About Audrey Niffenegger
Audrey Niffenegger is an internationally known author and artist, and the founder of Artists Book House. A founder of the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts (CCCBPA), she taught printing, creative writing, and visual narrative as a professor in its MFA program for many years.
In 2003 she released The Time Traveler’s Wife with the independent publisher MacAdam/Cage. It was an international best seller, and has since been made into a movie. Her second novel, Her Fearful Symmetry, was published in 2009 by Scribner (USA), Jonathan Cape (UK) and many other fine publishers around the world. She is currently working on the sequel to The Time Traveler’s Wife, with the working title The Other Husband.
Saturday, February 8 and Sunday, February 9, 2025
10am to 4pm
About the Workshop
This is a workshop for fiction writers, or anyone interested in creating characters for comics, graphic novels, creative non-fiction, etcetera. Students will concentrate on techniques for building groups of characters with complex interior lives and interesting relationships.
Prior to the 2-day workshop, students will submit up to twenty pages (5000 words) of their work to Audrey Niffenegger by Saturday, February 1st. Writing examples should ideally feature characters you would like to continue working with; excerpts of unfinished work would be ideal.
This workshop will include writing exercises, sharing in-class writing out loud, and discussions of students’ projects. The emphasis is on developing characters and using them effectively.
There will be a lunch break from noon to 1:00. Limited to 12 students.
About Audrey Niffenegger
Audrey Niffenegger is an internationally known author and artist, and the founder of Artists Book House. A founder of the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts (CCCBPA), she taught printing, creative writing, and visual narrative as a professor in its MFA program for many years.
In 2003 she released The Time Traveler’s Wife with the independent publisher MacAdam/Cage. It was an international best seller, and has since been made into a movie. Her second novel, Her Fearful Symmetry, was published in 2009 by Scribner (USA), Jonathan Cape (UK) and many other fine publishers around the world. She is currently working on the sequel to The Time Traveler’s Wife, with the working title The Other Husband.