FICTION with JERRY GABRIEL

TBA

Workshop description coming soon.

YOUTH WORKSHOP with EVA FREEMAN

Sailing From This to That: A Youth Writing Workshop

In this workshop, high school-aged conference attendees will explore the craft of the personal essay, short story, and poem. Participants will develop the intimate tone that is the hallmark of good nonfiction and its interplay of summary, musing, and scene. We will also explore the building blocks of a solid short story: plot, characterization, setting, and dialogue. There will be several writing prompts and exercises to practice developing these elements. While we will also generate new material, participants are encouraged to bring poems, essays, or short stories to be workshopped.

POETRY with HEATHER GREEN

Crystal Vision

In this intensive poetry workshop, we’ll consider notions of “vision” as related to perception, image and description, and the imagined shape of a text. We’ll collaboratively read and discuss participants’ poems, as well as model poems related to participants’ poems, in search of a deeper understanding of poetic possibility, both within the poems at hand, and in a broader sense. Students will also respond to generative prompts to write several new poems, which we’ll share near the end of the week.

CREATIVE NONFICTION with ANGELA PELSTER

TBA

Workshop description coming soon.