Workshop: Reinventing Our Prose
I’m thrilled to be teaching a workshop with the great K-Ming Chang. Pre-order your copy of The Outer Country from Skylight Books using the link below, and you can join us for free!
Stories do more than convey information. They offer a glimpse into a writer’s view of the world and the vastness of their imagination. In this class, we’ll discuss writing that has transformed the ordinary into the unexpected. Through generative exercises, we’ll explore ways to “cast a spell” on our own writing to create original prose and to capture the attention of our readers.
Plus : Five participants will be selected at random to receive feedback from me on a 20-page prose sample.
Instructors
Davin Malasarn’s debut novel, The Outer Country, will be published by One World/Random House in May 2026. Previously, he self-published the short story and flash collection The Wild Grass and Other Stories (2011). As a Bennington Alumni Fellow, he lectured on “Disorientation, Illogic, and Ambiguity in Storytelling,” and his graduate seminar focused on non-chronological storytelling. He has taught creative writing through PEN America as an Emerging Voices Fellow, and through the Pasadena City College Extension Program. Learn more on his About Page.
K-Ming Chang is the author of the novel Bestiary (One World/Random House, 2020), which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and the Otherwise Award; the chapbook Bone House (Bull City Press, 2021); the short story collection Gods of Want (One World/Random House), which won a Lambda Literary Award; the novel Organ Meats (One World/Random House, 2023); and the novella Cecilia (Coffee House Press, 2024). In 2026, she will be making her YA debut with Straight to the Source, a rom-com forthcoming from Holiday House, and her second YA project, a novel-in-verse titled Girl Gods, forthcoming from Kokila (Penguin Random House) in 2027. Her next novel for adults, Needlemouth, is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster on October 20, 2026. She is a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 Honoree, a Kundiman Fellow, and an O. Henry Prize Winner.
This workshop is hosted by Eastover Press and The Granum Foundation.