WEEK 9: Aug 19 - 23
Poet-in-Residence: SUSAN KINSOLVING
Workshop: Title: "Verse, Reverse, Turn, Return"
Description: Please submit two poems of your own that you are willing to lead onto the dance floor or abandon to the trampoline. Ways of turning and returning the poem will be attempted. We'll write, rewrite, and read. With any luck, we'll learn a little and laugh a lot, or vice versa.
M-F 8:30-10:30 a.m., CLSC Alumni Hall
Prose Writer-in-Residence: DAVID BECKMAN
Workshop: Title: "Write Me
Someone I Can Believe In:
Bringing Your Fictional Characters Alive"
Description: "Intuiting" your characters gets you only so far. Real results come when you picture them in detail. We'll learn from well-known writers including Vladimir Nabokov, Cormac McCarthy, Alice Munro and Stephen King. Then you'll create, and share, your own characters in writing you do during the week.
M-F 1-3 p.m., CLSC Alumni Hall