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Centre for Learning Futures

Novel Writing

This course is for anyone dreaming of, or struggling with, finally getting a novel written

For beginners and advanced writers alike, this course is for you. Whether you're plotting your outline or polishing that final draft, this course will offer an intensive workshop environment with the focus on breaking down the barriers to completing your novel.

Writing will be the class focus, with a strong emphasis on sharing constructive feedback. Discussion topics will include, but not be limited to, narrative structure, character, plotting and pacing, and of course publishing.

No materials required.

Winter term

Tuesdays, March 24 to May 19 (8 weeks, no class April 7)
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
UNB Fredericton
Carleton Hall, 19 Macaulay Lane, room 104
$195 (+ HST)

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About the instructor

Anastasios Mihalopoulos is a writer and educator. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from the Northeast Ohio MFA (NEOMFA) consortium and his B.S. in both chemistry and English from Allegheny College.

He is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of New Brunswick. His poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and reviews have appeared widely, in Scientific American, Fairy Tale Review, Ninth Letter, Pithead Chapel, PRISM International, and elsewhere. His poetry manuscript, Still, Sometimes, Shipwreck, confronts language loss, cultural disconnect, diasporic identity, and other aspects of home-seeking using a series of persona poems from the perspective of Odysseus.

His manuscript was a finalist for the 2025 Alice James Award and the Black Lawrence Press Immigrant Writing Series. His short story, built from a series of myths and Greek folklore, “The Music of Olena Xiphias”, was runner-up for the 2024 Driftwood Press Adrift Short Story Contest.