Fiction Workshop at the Mark Twain House

Susan Schoenberger, a Faulkner Award winner whose novel "A Watershed Year" was published to acclaim last year, will lead a three-hour fiction workshop session on Saturday, March 3, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

The subjects are "The Novel: Getting Started" — how to get over the hump of starting — and "Writing a Novel: The Big Idea" — how to craft an idea weighty enough to sustain a full-length novel.

The workshop is one event in the Writing at the Mark Twain House series, which offers writing classes and, for the first time this year, a Writers' Weekend (April 20-21).

Susan Schoenberger has been a writer, editor and copy editor at the News and Observer, the Baltimore Sun and the Hartford Courant. She now works as an editor for Patch.com. Her articles and essays have appeared in many publications, including the Courant's Northeast magazine and Reader's Digest. Her short stories have appeared in Inkwell and the Village Rambler and on the website Bartleby Snopes.

A Watershed Year received the Gold Medal in the 2006 William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing competition, presented at the 2006 Words and Music Festival in New Orleans. The novel was also one of seven finalists for the Peter Taylor Prize given by the Knoxville Writers Guild, and received an Artist Fellowship Grant from the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism.

The workshop fee is $20; register at 860-280-3130.