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Make a four-month commitment to your novel, with individual instruction from award-winning novelist Heather Newton. Before registering for this class, contact us at flatironwritersroom@gmail.com to select your start date. The first month, you’ll have an hour-long interview (choose between in-person and Zoom) in which Heather will ask you interview questions designed to get you thinking about all aspects of your novel. You’ll then have hard deadlines to turn in up to 20 pages for written feedback, with your beginning pages due Month 1, a climax chapter due Month 2, and your ending pages due Month 3 (no excuses). Your coaching will end with a half-hour session (on Zoom) to help you create a roadmap to finish your novel. This class will be most helpful to writers who have not yet completed a first draft. Limited to six students. Click HERE for a short video from Heather describing how the sessions will work. Students may return to Novel Sessions for subsequent rounds of coaching with three 20-page assignments custom designed to fit your project.

Heather Newton’s novel Under The Mercy Trees (HarperCollins 2011) won the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award, was chosen by the Women’s National Book Association as a Great Group Reads Selection and named an “Okra Pick” by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance. Her second novel The Puppeteer’s Daughters (Turner Publishing 2022) won the NC Indie Author Project Book Award, was a finalist for the Forword INDIES Book of the Year Award (General Fiction category), and was optioned for television. Her short story collection McMullen Circle (Regal House 2022), was a  finalist for both the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award and the W.S. Porter prize. Her newest novel The Book of Tears is forthcoming from Regal House in spring 2028. She is a faculty mentor for the Charlotte Lit Authors Lab, and is co-founder and Program Manager for the Flatiron Writers Room.  www.heathernewton.net