Richard Peabody’s teaching a course on Experimental Fiction Writing at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, MD, for the first time in nearly six years. Those of you who’re looking for something that will force you to create 6-7 new pieces of fiction will be intereted in this.

Here’s the course description from their website:

An intensive hands-on workshop that will allow you to flex your wings and try out something new—stylistically and otherwise. We’re going to encourage the wildly imaginative, the flamboyant, and the ridiculous. You will write to prompts and you will be expected to read your work aloud. Students are also encouraged to bring in additional experimental test-flights for my eyes only.

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Richard Peabody, a prolific poet, fiction writer and editor, is an experienced teacher and important activist in the Washington , D.C. community of letters. He is the founder and co-editor of Gargoyle magazine and editor (or co-editor) of eleven anthologies including Mondo Barbie, Conversations with Gore Vidal, A Different Beat: Writings by Women of the Beat Generation, Alice Redux and Grace and Gravity: Fiction by Washington Area Women. He is the author of the novella Sugar Mountain, (Argonne Hotel Press), two short story collections, and six poetry collections including Last of the Red Hot Magnetos and I’m in Love with the Morton Salt Girl (Paycock Press). He is currently working on Enhanced Gravity: More Fiction by Washington Area Women (forthcoming 2006). Peabody holds a B.A. from the University of Maryland and an M.A. in Literature from American University. He has taught at the University of Virginia, Georgetown University, The Writer’s Center and at Hopkins, where he has been presented the Faculty Award for Distinguished Professional Achievement. Peabody lives and works in the Washington, D.C. area.