Full-Figured Fiction—Rounding out your prose by focusing on these five crucial elements: character, action, dialog, setting and plot. Through dynamic exercises, interactions, conversations and plenty of writing time, participants will learn to bring their fictional worlds to life in fresh and exciting ways.

Chris is a creative midwife who helps people get to the core of their project and process.

He’s a warm, insightful guide with a deep understanding of creative practice and the challenges that greet us when we endeavor to make anything. Over the years of developing my teaching practice, he’s learned that his greatest assets are the ability to really hear what people are saying they want to make; having a clear vision for how each person’s work can move forward; and the ability to guide them toward that.

You and your work will be changed, better, brighter and deeper.

Chris has been teaching writers of all kinds for fifteen years in New York City, LA, the Hudson Valley and online. Through weekend intensives, weekly writing groups, one-off workshops and one-on-one sessions, Wells guides people to find the deeper truth and meaning in what they’re writing, inspires folks to develop a writing practice, and to reach their goals.

Wells teaches regularly at Omega Institute, and also at Actors’ Center NYC, LA County Museum of Art, Cal State Sacramento, CalArts, the Rowe Center and more.

In addition to his teaching practice, Wells is an Obie award-winning writer, actor and community leader who creates live events, music, and stories. He is the founding artistic director of The Secret City, a nonprofit community arts organization in New York City founded on the principles of creative mindfulness. Chris serves as curator, lead artist, and producer of The Secret City's dynamic live performances in NYC, Los Angeles, and Woodstock, NY.

His theatrical work has been honored with two LA Weekly Awards for Best Actor, a shared Garland award for playwriting, and many Ovation awards for participating in ensemble-created work. In 2010, Wells received a special citation Obie Award for service to the NYC artistic community.

Website: mrchriswells.com

The Artist’s Survival Guide: cwells.substack.com

The Secret City: thesecretcity.org