Prose Workshop: Lists, Islands, and Epigraphs: Tricking Ourselves Toward Story
Week 9 | Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall Prose Room | Ages 18+
Many of us are taught that stories move chronologically, but this model can sometimes stunt progress and lead to dead ends. In this workshop, we’ll explore some unusual approaches we can adopt to create fresh narratives or reinvigorate old ones. We’ll consider storytelling through the lens of mosaics, islands, lists, and other “tricks,” reading examples in fiction and nonfiction, and experimenting with some of them together. Whether you’re working on a project in need of oxygen, or facing a blank page, this workshop will help you create original stories that captivate readers. Flexible. (ages 18+)
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Lenore Myka is the author of King of the Gypsies: Stories (BkMk Press), the winner of the G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize. Lenore’s fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, Poets & Writers, Quartz, New England Review, Five Points, and others, and have been recognized by the Best American series. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Hawthornden International Writer's Retreat, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. Her current book-in-progress, Where I Want to Be: Reflections on Home, was inspired by a move to she and her husband made to St. Petersburg, Florida. A freelance writing coach and editor, you can learn more about Lenore at www.lenoremyka.com.