Join me for a reading and Q&A with YA author Barbara Shoup at Second Flight Books in Lafayette, Indiana, 2122 Scott Street,
You have a story to tell, but how best to get the scenes and memories on the page so that readers feel as if your lived experience is also theirs? In this class, we’ll explore the following three narrative structures in creative nonfiction that reveal personal and universal wisdoms: narrative, flash, and braid.
Class time will be used to examine these three different approaches to structure a narrative, the benefits of each, and then we will use this discussion to try our hand at the multiple possibilities structure affords in our own writing. You will leave this class with the start of three new essays or one essay with three different approaches and endless possibilities.
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Join us for this FREE Writing Workshop: Mothers, Daughters, Sisters & Wise Women: Writing Our Own History of Women at Second Flight Books, 2122 Scott Street, Lafayette, IN.
Free event, but donation suggested to support the Lafayette YWCA
Join us for this year's Inspired Words Writers' Conference
"In the stories we tell ourselves, we tell ourselves." Michael Martone
This intimate writing conference, hosted by the Lafayette Writers' Studio, will feature a keynote and workshop by acclaimed author Barbara Shoup, novelist and prose writers Sarah Layden and Melissa Fraterrigo, and poets Lauren Mallett and Kaveh Akbar. In addition to Shoup's workshop, you may attend breakout sessions designed to help you learn more about craft, generate new work, and explore yourself and your writing. All sessions will be generative in nature, so you will leave with the start of several pieces of new work. Lunch and refreshments included with admission. Local bookseller Second Flight Bookswill be selling books by presenters along with other merchandise. Discover writing that stirs and surprises you, and meet other committed writers. You will leave with more than inspired words. Early Bird ends Oct 13, 2017!
I'm delighted to participate in this fall's 2017 Steel Pen Creative Writers' Conference on Saturday, Oct 28 at Fair Oaks Farm in Fair Oaks, Indiana. I'll be leading a workshop on "Connecting the Unconnected: Exploring the Novel-in-Stories." I hope you can join us!