A writer's folio · Santa Fe, New Mexico
Clara Jensen writes novels, short stories and essays from Santa Fe, and leads the workshops that keep the pages moving.
The work
Long fiction, short fiction and essays — plus the workshops and the editing that keep other writers moving.
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Long-form fiction, carried over years rather than weeks — the whole arc, from the first sentence to the last revision.
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Tight, single-sitting arcs — a few pages that hold an entire weather system inside them.
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Personal and place-driven essays — the high desert, the long drive, and the thinking that happens in between.
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Small groups in Santa Fe, working on real pages in real time — drafts read aloud, sentences turned over, next steps agreed.
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Structural and line-level editing for writers who are close to the end and need a clear eye on the last stretch.
From the desk
Long fiction and short fiction, essays and revisions — written from Santa Fe, worked over at the desk, and read aloud in the room. These are the pages that keep going back for another pass.
Workshops
Every workshop starts where the writing already is. Bring pages, bring questions — the group works on the manuscript in front of it.
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A focused session on the short form: openings, compression, and the ending that lands. Bring a draft and leave with a plan for the next one.
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For writers deep in a long project. Structure, pacing, and the middle chapters that stall — worked through chapter by chapter.
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Learn to read your own pages like an editor. Bring a manuscript extract and work through revision at the sentence level.
The writer
Clara Jensen writes novels, short stories and essays from Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her work moves between long-form fiction and the shorter, closer forms — and between the desk and the room, where she leads writing workshops and edits manuscripts for other writers.
Workshops meet in small groups and start from the manuscript in front of them: drafts read aloud, sentences turned over, next steps agreed.
Based
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Writes
Novels, short stories, essays
Teaches
Writing workshops, small groups
Edits
Manuscripts, structural and line-level
Start here
Workshops run in small groups in Santa Fe. Editing is taken on for writers who are close to the end of a draft.