Workshop: How to Run the Clock in a Story

Join us for a special workshop with writer-in-residence Anindit Dutta! A story does not have to tell us everything that happens, and it certainly doesn’t have to tell it in order. As writers, we stretch seconds into pages, leap across years, linger on the past, and withhold crucial moments to shape how readers experience a story. In this workshop, we’ll explore how we can play with time. We will stretch it, skip it, scramble it, and slow it down, and explore how all of that can reveal character, create voice and interiority, build suspense, and transform even ordinary events into compelling fiction. Bring a story idea and an open mind, and let’s see what happens when you take control of the clock. Snacks will be provided! 

Thank you to the Marion Park Lewis Foundation for the Arts for sponsoring this season's events!

About the Artist

Anindit Dutta is a fiction writer from Guwahati who is currently at work on a novel that explores the consequences of extraction in populations across rural Assam through a cohesive interface of folklore, the slow violence of colonial rule, and contemporary experiences perpetrated by rapid, unplanned industrialization. He is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Georgia, where he is an Appleby Scholar researching on communities around riverine ecologies in the Global South. He graduated with an MFA at the New Writers Project at the University of Texas at Austin where he received a Crawley-Garwood Research Grant and the Fania Kruger Fellowship in Writing. Before moving to the US, he built educational tools to support children learning English in India. His writing has been supported by the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at UGA. He had also been a Fiction Editor at the Bat City Review.