Memoir and fiction writers draw on the same sources for inspiration: experience, observation, and point of view. They use their skills to express private visions in a universal art form. Through a series of writing exercises, participants will re-create their experiences, re-examine their points of view, and use fiction techniques to expand their discoveries into finished work.
Calendar
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
(This program continues for multiple sessions)
5:45 – 7:45 pm
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
(This program continues for multiple sessions)
5:45 – 7:45 pm
Writers will have the opportunity to share their stories in a supportive, focused, and enlightening environment. Facilitated discussions of participants’ manuscripts will highlight the writing process, story components, elements of narrative, craft, revision, and marketability within today’s children’s book publishing world.
Thursday, June 6, 2013
(This program continues for multiple sessions)
5:45 – 7:45 pm
Blocked? Bored? Want outside the box? Learn how contemporary writers in genres from poetry and theater to mystery novels and memoirs draw inspiration from experimentation. A continuation of the Elements of Creative Writing seminars, this workshop is open to all writers at all levels, whether or not they have taken the previous classes.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
(This program continues for multiple sessions)
5:45 – 7:45 pm
Must short stories be tragic and humorless to be moving? You, too, can learn to write funny and your readers will thank you for it. This seminar includes assigned readings, in and out of class writing exercises, and discussion.
Julie Benesh holds a Ph.D. and an M.F.A. and has had a short story anthologized in Bestial Noise: A Tin House Reader.
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
(This program continues for multiple sessions)
5:45 – 7:45 pm
The personal essay thrives today because of its versatility of both subject and form. It can be funny, serious, scolding, or meditative. It can take the shape of a memoir or character sketch; book review or commentary; blog post or travel essay. In this workshop, we will practice writing the personal essay, then present drafts of our work for helpful feedback.
Saturday, June 15, 2013
10 am – 4 pm
This workshop is offered for those interested in writing family stories—the real-life accounts of the important people, places, and events in their and their family’s lives. These stories may be recorded as letters, diary entries, short remembrances, character sketches, or even eulogies. In the workshop, we will discuss the merits of each of these forms and practice writing in them.