Telling Your Story: A Series of Workshops in Poetry and Prose
Wednesday, July 13, 2016, 6 - 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, July 20, 2016, 6 - 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, July 27, 2016, 6 - 7:30 p.m.
Jefferson Market Library, First Floor
Online Registration opens Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - 10:00am
Telling Your Story: A Series of Workshops in Poetry and Prose, featuring instructors from New York Writers Workshop.
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. In Tim Tomlinson’s July sessions, the first workshop will focus on possibilities of autobiography in poetry. The latter two will focus on autobiography in prose. Each session will begin with a sample or two of published work, followed by an in-session writing exercise, then discussion of the work produced. It is not necessary to attend all three sessions—each session stands alone. But the final meeting may consider work that participants have developed over the three sessions. Tim will offer optional reading and writing assignments for the times between sessions. By the series conclusion, participants who've attended all three sessions will have generated drafts of at least one new poem, and two new pieces of autobiographical prose.
Tim Tomlinson is a co-founder of New York Writers Workshop and co-author of its popular text, The Portable MFA in Creative Writing. He is also the author of the chapbook,Yolanda: An Oral History in Verse (Finishing Line Press), and the forthcoming collection, Requiem for the Tree Fort I Set on Fire (Winter Goose). His poems, stories, and essays have been published in China (United Verses and Anthill), the Philippines (Esquire, Tomas, Silliman Journal, and in the Anvil Press anthology Fast Food Fiction), and the U.S. in numerous venues, including Blue Lyra Review, Caribbean Vistas, Soundings Review, the anthology Long Island Noir (Akashic Books), and most recently inSoftblow, Lime Hawk, and Mulberry Fork Review. He is a member of Asia Pacific Writers & Translators. He teaches in the Global Liberal Studies Program at New York University.
New York Writers Workshop is an alliance of experienced, professional writers of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, plays and screenplays who live and teach in New York City. It is a non-profit organization whose mission is to serve a growing community of aspiring writers with workshops that teach craft, foster creativity, and enable writers, no matter their background or experience, to achieve their full writing potential.
Register online starting June 29! Presented in the 1st floor Willa Cather Community Room.
All events are free and open to the public.