6-week Master Fiction – begins 3.31.26 – Sunset Park, BK [1 spot]
Instructor: Ted Thompson
Dates: begins March 31, 2026 | Tues 7-9pm
Location: Sunset Park, BK
Fee: $850 / $775 for returning Sackett writers
A writing sample is required for this class.
Please fill out an application with your contact info and a brief sample of your writing.
Our Master Fiction Workshop is a selective class aimed at writers looking to polish their work for publication. Class is taught by our most experienced advanced fiction instructor whose students have gone on to attend top MFA programs and win prestigious awards. Class time is spent on in-depth discussion of student work and typed feedback from the instructor is included, as well as a private conference.
Writers should have extensive writing and writing class/workshop experience.A private conference with the instructor is included.
Ted Thompson is the author of The Land of Steady Habits, which was a finalist for the Center for Fiction Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. The novel was adapted by Nicole Holofcener for a feature film starring Ben Mendelsohn, Edie Falco and Connie Britton. His short stories have been published in Tin House, American Short Fiction, One Teen Story and Best New American Voices, and he has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the MacDowell Colony. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Ted has proudly taught for Sackett for over ten years, as well as at Amherst College and in the Brooklyn College MFA program.