Magical Realism: A Fiction Writing Workshop

Program Type:

Writing

Age Group:

Adults
  • Registration is required for this event.
  • Registration will open on January 12, 2026 @ 9:00am.
  • This event uses combined registration. If you register for this event, you will also be registering for all other occurrences.
  • This event is for registrants age Over 18 and above.

About this event:

Join Augusto Luiz Facchini and enhance your craft in a new writing workshop focused on Magical Realism!

Magical Realism is a genre of literary and artistic craft that blends realistic settings and characters with fantastical or supernatural elements, usually treating these elements as normal and unexplained within the parameters of the work's narrative. Some examples of this in fiction include Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, Sherman Alexi's Reservation Blues, and Toni Morrison's Beloved.

In this workshop we will explore some notable works in the genre, discuss some common themes and techniques, and share our own writing for review.

Author and workshop presenter, Augusto Luiz Facchini, earned an MFA in English with a focus on Creative Writing from the University of Memphis and a PhD in Fiction from SUNY Binghamton.

He teaches creative writing and fiction courses at U of M, BU, and Ithaca College, as well as having led and/or participated in non-academia related writing workshops. He has been teaching writing in various forms for over 20 years His stories have appeared in The Rio Grande Review, Inkalchemy's anthologies, Whimsy and Weirdscapes, and soon-to-be-published in Xeno.

Augusto currently teaches writing at SUNY Cortland and TC3.