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SUMMARY:'Tell All the Truth\, but Tell It Slant:' Writing About Trauma with Thomas McNeely
DESCRIPTION:Saturdays\, June 3\, 10\, 17 & 24\, 10am-12pm CST via Zoom\nInstructor: Thomas McNeely\nNonmember: $150; Member: $125; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n  \nHow do we tell the story of a traumatic event or its aftermath?  What if\, after the event\, we were silenced by others or just by our own inability to put the experience into words? \n  \nIn this generative course\, we will experiment with different approaches to narrating real or fictional trauma while keeping in mind that each traumatic experience suggests a variety of different stories and may be narrated in a variety of different ways. We will explore writing different versions of the same story and decide which form–poem\, short story\, novel\, memoir\, or a hybrid of any of these narrative approaches–will best capture the traumatic experience and its after effects.  \nOur approaches will be based on short excerpts from work by Sylvia Plath\, Brian Teare\, Ocean Vuong\, Mary Karr\, Eimear McBride\, and other creative writers\, and will incorporate ideas from trauma narrative theorists and researchers\, including Cathy Caruth and Bessel van der Kolk. \nThis class is open to writers of all skill levels. \nWorkshop participants will leave with the following: \n\nAn understanding of how to write about trauma and its impact\nIdeas on which narrative form can best capture the traumatic experience \nA starting place for their own piece of writing \n\n\n\nAn East Side Houston native\, THOMAS H. McNEELY has received National Endowment for the Arts\, Wallace Stegner\, MacDowell Colony\, and Dobie Paisano fellowships for his fiction. Pictures of the Shark: Stories (Texas Review Press) is his second book.  His first book\, Ghost Horse\, won the Gival Press Novel Award and was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize in Writing. He has published short stories and non-fiction in The Atlantic\, Texas Monthly\, Ploughshares\, and many other magazines and anthologies\, including The Best American Mystery Stories and Algonquin Books’ Best of the South. His stories have been short-listed for the Pushcart Prize\, Best American Short Stories and O. Henry Award anthologies. He currently teaches in the Stanford Online Writing Studio and at Emerson College\, Boston\, and has led writing workshops at the Grub Street Writers Workshops\, the Lighthouse Writers Workshops\, the Writers’ League of Texas\, Writespace Houston\, and Inprint Houston.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/tell-all-the-truth-but-tell-it-slant/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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SUMMARY:The Creative Writer’s Professional Toolkit with Lyzette Wanzer
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, June 6\, 13\, 20\, 27 & July 11\, 18\, 6:30-8:30pm CST via Zoom\nInstructor: Lyzette Wanzer\nNonmember: $150; Member: $130; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n  \nAre you ready to take the leap from writing hobbyist to professional writer? If so\, gain the tools every professional writer needs to make it in a competitive field.\nThis intensive hands-on workshop will provide you with the career savvy you need to stand out from the crowd of writers who\, though they may be talented\, lack the marketplace acumen they need to boost their opportunities from good to great. Learn a comprehensive set of professional practices that translate your talent into actionable\, real-world skills for elevating your literary career. Learn how to increase your chances of earning grants\, landing residencies\, and getting published.  \nOver the course of this workshop\, you will acquire the practices and strategies you need to take advantage of scores of opportunities for your work–skills you can put into immediate effect! After completing this course\, many students have garnered their first literary grant\, writing conference invitation\, or publication credit. \nStudents will leave this class with: \n\nA short & long bio\nA current writer’s curriculum vitae/resume that will get you noticed\nIdeas for keeping track of professional achievements and updating your CV\n\n\nLyzette Wanzer is a San Francisco writer\, editor\, and writing workshop instructor. She received her MFA in Fiction from Mills College. A flash fiction connoisseur and essay aficionado\, her work has appeared in Natural Bridge\, The Los Angeles Review\, Callaloo\, Tampa Review\, The MacGuffin\, Ampersand Review\, Journal of Advanced Development\, Fourteen Hills\, Journal of Experimental Fiction\, Pleiades\, Flashquake\, Glossalia Flash Fiction\, Potomac Review\, International Journal on Literature and Theory\, Fringe Magazine\, and many others. She is a contributor to Lyric Essay as Resistance: Truth From the Margins (Wayne State University Press 2022)\, The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays (Wyatt-MacKenzie 2012)\, Civil Liberties United: Diverse Voices from the San Francisco Bay Area (Pease Press 2019)\, and 642 Tiny Things to Write About (Chronicle Books 2015). Her articles have appeared in Essay Daily\, The Naked Truth\, and the San Francisco University High School Journal. Lyzette is the current judge of the Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition’s Intercultural Essay category and the Women’s National Book Association’s Effie Lee Morris Writing Contest’s nonfiction category. \nLyzette has been invited to present her work and/or panels at conferences across the country\, including the American and Popular Culture Association\, Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP)\, College English Association (CEA)\, Louisville Conference on Literature & Culture Since 1900\, Litquake Festival\, San Francisco Writers Conference\, and others.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/writers-professional-toolkit/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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