Writing The Novella: Exploring Long-Short Fiction 6-Week Zoom Intensive with Michelle Kicherer, Starts Wednesday, June 11th, 2025

Starts Wednesday, June 11th, 2025 Class will meet weekly via Zoom on Wednesdays from 3:00 - 5:00 PM PST / 6:00PM - 8PM Eastern. Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button (lower left) to talk with us. Instructor Michelle Kicherer covers books and music for the San Francisco Chronicle and teaches writing classes in fiction and memoir. She is a former ghostwriter of memoir and nonfiction books and a current writing coach and founder of Banana Pitch Press, an indie press specializing in novellas and memoirellas. Her fiction has appeared in The Master's Review, The Sierra Nevada Review, The Berkeley Fiction Review, and others. Her debut novella Sexy Life, Hello came out digitally September 2024 and arrives in print March 2025. Willamette Week called it “one of the most compelling short reads of the year.” Michelle aims to have one weird new experience everyday.  Read an interview with Michelle on Writing the Novella.  The novella is a cool form of literature somewhere between