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Craft & Community<\/em><\/p>\n This workshop class will focus on the essential elements of fiction writing. Participants will be asked to read and discuss classic short stories, support one another through peer workshops, and work on short in-class writing assignments designed to generate future material. Throughout the week, our focus will be on creating an artistic community that encourages everyone to nurture their own individual creative voice. Outside of class, participants will also have an opportunity for individual meetings with the instructor.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Edible Essay<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWe write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.\u201d \u2014Ana\u00efs Nin<\/p>\n Food is much more than the stuff that keeps us alive. Food is memory. Food is storytelling. Food is self and community. As writers, we can look to food as the basis of all kinds of creative nonfiction writing, including edible essays that weave together the personal with the culinary. In this workshop, we’ll start with taste memories\u2014those recollections of specific foods, dishes, and meals that reveal our sweet, sour, salty, and savory selves. From here, we’ll explore these memories to consider how eating is our way of letting the world in: teaching us how to think and feel, what we love and loathe, and even what we believe. Our workshop will culminate in producing edible essays that draw on these culinary combinations of body and mind to represent everything from history and geography to religion, politics, economics, and art. Outside of our workshop, we’ll also have opportunities to learn from a local chef and to visit our campus community farm.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Reading and Refining<\/em><\/p>\n This workshop will be two-pronged. \u00a0First, we will respond to the draft manuscripts submitted prior to the conference. In our responses, we will be more concerned with describing than with prescribing, doing our best to help writers understand the readers\u2019 experience of their draft. In my workshops, I veer toward answering three questions:<\/p>\n Second, we will do a series of short, in-class writing exercises designed to tap into your creative self, to help you understand your process better, and possibly to serve as raw material for future stories.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Word by Word: A Youth Writing Workshop<\/em><\/p>\n Regardless of a writer’s preference for poetry or prose, many of the skills required to make great poetry are the same qualities that make for great prose. In this workshop, writers will explore how poetic forms and devices can improve their writing across the craft, from lyrical to free verse to genre fiction to memoir. Participants will write and workshop to find the value in experimenting with forms within and beyond their typical practice.<\/p>\n Note: This workshop is designed for high school-age students (grades 9-12 or equivalent).<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lyric Narratives<\/em><\/p>\n In this poetry workshop, which will be organized around the idea that every poem, no matter how fragmented and abstract, also tells a story, we\u2019ll read and discuss participants\u2019 poems alongside lyric poems that trace and delineate the significant shifts in our inner lives. Students will write poems in response to prompts, and we\u2019ll have a chance to hear these late in the week.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Vital Endeavor<\/em><\/p>\n In a world where computers can tell the stories for us, why should we do the hard work of writing them? This nonfiction workshop will hinge on the conviction that paying attention to our world and sharing our stories remains a vital endeavor worth our time and energy. We\u2019ll explore the many modes and possibilities of nonfiction\u2014a slippery, amorphous, and expansive genre that is, according to its name (not fiction), about telling true stories. We\u2019ll think together about what it means to make art from human experience, and all the tools available to us as nonfiction writers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fiction with Matt Burgess Craft & Community This workshop class will focus on the essential elements of fiction writing. Participants will be asked to read and discuss classic short stories, support one another through peer workshops, and work on short in-class writing assignments designed to generate future material. 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Fiction with Jerry Gabriel<\/h2>\n
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Youth Workshop with Erik Dionne<\/h2>\n
Poetry with Karen Leona Anderson<\/h2>\n
Creative Nonfiction with Randle Browning<\/h2>\n