New Creative Nonfiction Intensive: The Usefulness of Rabbit Holes
NEW: CREATIVE NONFICTION INTENSIVE: THE USEFULNESS OF RABBIT HOLES
Sun, Nov 06 - Sun, Nov 06
02:00 PM - 05:00 PM; $60 members / $69 public
Marcel Proust's molar's meeting of the madeleine is arguably one of the most famous eureka moments in Western literature. Who would have thought an itty-bitty sponge cake would have led to the profoundly monumental In Search of Lost Time? It was Proust’s equivalent of Lewis Carroll's rabbit hole, allowing him entry into a world he thought he had forgotten. Do you have an object, a person, or a place that could be a rabbit hole? Through examples, printed materials, and discussions, this workshop will show you how to mine that rabbit hole for a deeper understanding of your own life or someone else's.
Manila-born Luis H. Francia is a poet, nonfiction writer, and playwright. His latest volume of poetry is Tattered Boat, released in 2014. Previous collections include The Arctic Archipelago and Other Poems, Museum of Absences, and The Beauty of Ghosts. His poems have been translated into several languages. He has read at numerous literary festivals and most recently at the XI International Festival of Poetry (2015) held annually in Granada, Nicaragua. A collection of his most recent nonfiction, RE: Recollections, Reviews, Reflections, was released the summer of 2015. In 2002, he won both the PEN Open Book and the Asian American Writers literary awards. He is in the Library of America’s Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing. His full-length play, The Strange Case of Citizen de la Cruz, had its world premiere in San Francisco in 2012. He teaches at New York University and Hunter College. He has also taught at the City University of Hong Kong and has conducted workshops at, among other places, the St. Marks Poetry Project, the Asian American Writers Workshop, Curare in Mexico City, and St. Louis University in Baguio City.