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• WO151 Foundations of Creative Non-fiction (Memoir and Essays)

  • Start
    15 Oct 2024
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  • End
    10 Dec 2024
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  • Schedule
    8 sessions
  • Location
    ZOOM
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  Course Description:
  

  This course focuses on memoir (long-form,) and essay (short form.) The essence of both is to distill personal experience into wisdom that applies to the greater human story while writing in a way that fully engages, even moves, the reader. 

  Using a series of prompts, we will help you deepen your material through unearthing early impressions and sensual memory.  We will nudge you to create scenes (or moments in time), and then provide suggestions on how to organize your projects in unique and exciting ways.

  The workshop will include instruction, group interaction, and in-class exercises. You will leave with a stronger focus on your own creative non-fiction path. 

  Administrative Notes:

  This course is open to nonmember participants at a slightly higher cost, but a 3-month WICE membership is included.

  Registration is open.  This class is on ZOOM.

  About the Instructor: 

  With degrees in journalism and creative writing, Jennifer Lauck is the New York Times and London Times bestselling writer of the memoirs Blackbird, Still Waters, Found and The Summer of ’72.

  She has also published a series of interlocking essays in the collection titled Show Me the Way and has had essays published in several anthology collections, including Knitting Yarns. She teaches creative writing in the US and abroad.

  
  

  • https://blackbirdstudiopdx.com/
  • https://jenniferlauck.substack.com/

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• WO161 Fiction Workshop

  • Start
    16 Oct 2024
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  • End
    11 Dec 2024
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  • Schedule
    8 sessions
  • Location
    To be determined
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  Course Description:
  

  This weekly fiction workshop (short or long fiction) includes craft conversation on topics such as dialogue, story structure, character development, pacing and plot based on current best practices in creative writing pedagogy. Over the course of eight sessions, you will workshop two of your own pieces (either novel chapters or short stories) for supportive and rigorous group feedback. 
  

  Administrative Notes:

  ** Admission by application: Send five double-spaced pages of your best prose to: creativewriting@wice-paris.org **

  This course is open to nonmember participants at a slightly higher cost, but a 3-month WICE membership is included.

  Registration is open.
  

  About the Instructor: 

  Shannon Cain is the author of The Necessity of Certain Behaviors, winner of the 2001 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Her stories have been recognized by the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts, the O. Henry Prize, and the Pushcart Prize. Founder of La Maison Baldwin, a residency program for Black writers, she has taught creative writing at the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, and in the MFA program at Bennington College.

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