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Go Off-Kilter
Writing short, fabulist fiction with Moriah Hampton
January 22, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
(5-week online class)
If your favorite fiction is grounded in realism but shoots off in fantastic, odd, or horrific directions, fabulism is for you. This five-week course will familiarize students with fabulism through stories by well-known offbeat writers, Aimee Bender, Jamaica Kincaid, and Steven Millhauser, to understand the ways fabulist fiction departs from familiar reality. Throughout the class, students will practice incorporating fabulist elements into their own writing. Using a realistic scene as a starting point, students will consider different ways to “go off-kilter” and discuss the significance of such choices. Finally, students will return to a short piece of fiction they’ve written and revise it by incorporating fabulist elements. Students will receive one-on-one feedback on their work from the instructor at two points throughout the class.
Wednesdays, January 22 – Feb 19, on Zoom, 7 PM EST
This class will use Google Classroom for sharing materials, tracking assignments, and hosting mid-week discussions. Each week there will also be a live, in-person Zoom meeting for at least 90 mins.
A graduate of SUNY-Buffalo’s English doctoral program with concentrations in Modernist Literature and Critical Theory, Moriah Hampton teaches in the Writing and Critical Inquiry Program and Honors College at SUNY-Albany, including classes on Metamorphosis Tales and Short Fabulist Fiction. She is both a critical and creative writer as well as a photographer, with interests in Modernist and contemporary literature and art, psychoanalysis, indigeneity, and ethics. Her fiction, poetry, photography, and critical writing have appeared or are forthcoming in Ponder Review, The Coachella Review, Hamilton Stone Review, Poetry South, Route 7 Review, Gargoyle Magazine, the quint, and elsewhere. Her photographs have appeared as cover art for Typehouse Literary Magazine and Wildroof Journal and in group exhibits at Artworks Gallery Workshop 13, Arts Center East, Main Street Arts, and elsewhere. A 2024 Poet-in-Residence at Kristine Mann Library, she is also a contributor to the NY State Writers Institute, having conducted multiple interviews with contemporary creative writers, and serves as a fiction editor at Cleaver Magazine. She has received fellowships through Soaring Gardens Artists Retreat, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, and SUNY-Albany Initiatives for Women. Originally from the southeast, she is of Scottish and English descent and a Cherokee Nation citizen.