Fully Fledged
A 3-phase book incubator Course
About Fully Fledged
Online through Zoom
An intensive, intimate full-length manuscript incubator designed for our senior Fledglings. This is a special course uniquely tailored to each group of students based on the work they bring to the nest. Writers working on a long form book in any fiction genre or memoir are welcome.
Fully Fledged is a three-phase process mixing craft lessons, traditional workshopping, and prompt writing sessions.
Come equipped with first 30-50 pages of your project. We’ll spend 5 weeks working on short manuscript reviews and writing together, then 3 weeks learning and drafting, before we reconvene to workshop entire manuscripts (up to 250 pages). Along with 13 sessions, you’ll receive a writing log calendar during Phase Two to keep you accountable and a full individual manuscript review from Sammi and your peers.
Details
Date & Time:
Phase One, Five Short Manuscript Reviews - Every other week, Tuesdays May 26 - July 21 2025, 7 - 8:30 pm EST
Phase Two, Three Craft Lessons - Every three weeks July - September 2026*
Phase Three, Five Full Manuscript Reviews - Monthly October - January 2027*
Time Commitment: 13 sessions (around 9 months)
Features summer writing break log calendar, plus individual full manuscript reviews
Capacity = 5 participants
Cost: $17000, in three installments (due May, June, August)
$1600 for past Fledglings, $1500 for Flight Behavior alums
*scheduling determined as a group after roster is full, classes will either run weekday evenings afternoons 3-5 or evenings 7-9pm
Novel Incubator
Five 1.5 hour sessions begin May 2026, Three 2 hour sessions begin August 2026, Five 2 hour manuscript review sessions begin October 2026 | ONLINE through Zoom
An intensive, intimate full-length manuscript incubator designed for our senior Fledglings. This is a special course uniquely tailored to each group of students based on the work they bring to the nest. Writers working on a novel of any genre or memoir are welcome.
Fully Fledged is a three-phase process mixing craft lessons, traditional workshopping, and prompt writing sessions.
Phase One:
Come equipped with first 30-50 pages of your long form project (novel, memoir, screenplay) . We’ll spend 5 weeks working on short manuscript reviews and writing together in weekly 1.5 hour sessions.
Phase Two:
After we get to know each other’s work, we’ll spend the summer writing, meeting for 3 monthly 1.5 hour sessions to learn and draft in community. Prompts in these sessions will be custom prepared for the particular challenges of the group. You’ll receive a writing log calendar during Phase Two to keep you accountable, and help launch you into finishing the rest of your book.
—writing break—
Phase Three:
Reconvene to workshop entire manuscripts (or up to 250 pages) in monthly 2 hour sessions. Each writer will also receive in text notes and a two page letter of overall impressions from Sammi.