Telling Your Story: A Three Session Workshop

Saturday, October 8, 2016, 3 p.m.
Saturday, October 15, 2016, 3 p.m.
Saturday, October 22, 2016, 3 p.m.
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PROGRAM LOCATION: Jefferson Market Library, First Floor

How to register: Online
Telling Your Story is a workshop series focused on, but not limited to, writing from personal experience in fiction and non-fiction prose forms, and poetry. Generally, sessions include discussion of samples of published work, followed by in-session writing exercises, then sensitive critiques of the work produced. It is not necessary to attend all three sessions—each session stands alone. However, the final meeting may consider work that participants have developed over the three sessions. Optional reading and writing assignments might be suggested for the times between sessions. By the end of the sequence, participants who've attended all three sessions will have generated drafts of at least one new poem, and two new pieces of autobiographical prose.

Saturdays, October 8, 15, 22    
3 pm to 4:30 pm

Session I—Instructor:  Laura Bass (October 8): This session focuses on how to hook your reader from the very first sentence and, in the process, discover the heart of your story. Works may range from novels and novellas for a general reading audience including teens and preteens to short stories, flash fiction, graphic novels and picture book texts.

Session II—Instructor:  Tim Tomlinson (October 15): This session addresses the personal poem. Participants will mine personal experience and use the autobiographical to create drafts of two poems. Tim will discuss process and outcomes, and he’ll address the relationship between personal poem and personal prose. Published work will serve as examples.

Session III—Instructor:  Loren Kleinman (October 22): Loren Kleinman’s session will come at personal work through Creative Non-Fiction/Memoir. Prompts will derive from her acclaimed workshops, Writing to Heal, and Writing the Self.

Whether you attend one session or all please register online.  Thank you!  Registration opens Saturday, September 24.
All events and courses are free and open to the public.  Presented in the 1st floor Willa Cather Community Room.
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