Each workshop is approximately three hours long, limited to 15 participants and costs $25 a person. Pre-registration is necessary for workshops, but not general sessions which are FREE. Visit the REGISTRATION page for more information. Object Lessons: A Prose Poetry Workshop Holly Iglesias (prose poetry)
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: Just what exactly is a prose poem? And isn’t the term a contradiction in itself? Workshop participants will explore the way prose poems question expectations of poetry simply through their appearance. They lack the lovely curvature of lined verse; they look like squat, ordinary, pedestrian objects. But in fact, prose poems fulfill poetic expectations through the use of techniques common to all poetry—compression, fragmentation, figurative language, repetition, rhyme. In this workshop, participants will examine as well as create prose poems that are text equivalents of snapshots and postcards, those tiny, boxy items that are dense packages of memory. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Know Your Place: Tricks and tips to develop a powerful sense of place and regional identity in your writing Elizabeth Hudson (non-fiction)
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION to follow.Why do all the work when your characters can do so much of it for you? In this workshop, we'll explore techniques for creating 3-dimensional characters who will "take over" as you write. Through free-writing, character interviews, and non-dominant hand exercises, you'll discover how to step aside and allow a story to emerge on its own. Bring lots of paper and several pens and prepare to be surprised by what your characters tell you. For beginners and experienced writers alike. (This class will focus on fiction, but the techniques are useful for memoirists, as well.)
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Major SponsorThis project is supported by the N.C. Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources, with funding from the National Endowments for the Arts. |
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