I workshopped in this four-session craft seminar taught by New York Times-bestselling, Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning novelist, translator, and dramatist Maria Dahvana Headley. Headley is the author of Vergil: A Mythological Musical, Beowulf: A New Translation, and The Mere Wife.

This seminar was a deep dive into the techniques, forms, and tropes used in a variety of well-known epics – Gilgamesh, The Odyssey, The Mahabharata, The Aeneid, The Monkey King, The Epic of Delhemma, and Beowulf – combined with in-class writing exercises to enable students to use these techniques on the ground, transforming basic narrative into vivid, memorable, and thrilling epic storytelling.