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SUMMARY:Telling a Story of Your Life: A Personal Essay Workshop with Kendra Allen
DESCRIPTION:Write your truth\n  \nThursday(s) April 2\, 9\, 16 & 23 6:30-8:30pm CT\, via Zoom\nNonmember: $200; Member: $170; Student/Educ/Mil $140\n*EARN CPEs; TWO SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE \n \n  \nIn the span of every life are countless moments\, stories\, and revelations. When writing a personal narrative\, how do writers go about selecting what will most speak their truth and resonate with readers? \nIn this four-week course\, we’ll demystify the personal narrative process by figuring out the difference between a snapshot and a story. First-time writers may assume they have to include their entire lives in one piece\, which can make getting started on a personal essay confusing and overwhelming. This workshop will help you pinpoint storylines within yourself by leaning into your unique style and tone. Through games\, prompts\, and other exercises\, we’ll focus on generating work every week. \nThis course is open to adult writers of all skill levels. \nWorkshop participants will leave with the following:\nA starting point for a personal essay\nAn understanding of how to differentiate between a situation and a story\nTechniques for nurturing your voice on the page\nIdeas on how to create prompts for yourself to generate material \n\nAn award-winning essayist and poet\, Kendra Allen was born and raised in Dallas\, TX. She loves laughing\, leaving\, and writing. Some of her other work can be found in The Paris Review\, High Times\, The Rumpus\, and more. She’s the author of the New York Times lauded poetry collection The Collection Plate (Harper Collins\, 2022) and essay collection When You Learn the Alphabet\, which won the 2018 Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction. Fruit Punch (Ecco\, 2022)\, her memoir\, is out now and receiving praise from all corners. Jaquira Díaz\, author of Ordinary Girls\, states: “A stunning and original memoir about Black girlhood and coming of age. Allen is both storyteller and poet\, observing the world with curiosity and humor. Fruit Punch is simultaneously brilliant cultural commentary and an intimate portrayal of family and community\, and it will stay with me for a long\, long time.”
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Joshua Robbins
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Big Texas Author Talk on Wednesday\, Oct 16th\, 2024 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Joshua Robbins\, author of Eschatology in Crayon Wax\, moderated by George David Clark.\nRSVP\nJoshua Robbins’s highly anticipated and thought-provoking second book\, Eschatology in Crayon Wax\, evokes a sense of being torn between a fragile longing for transformation and a whirlwind of flawed divinity. Robbins firmly asserts\, “Paradise doesn’t care how you get there. Only that you try\,” and is met with divine contempt and a commandment to “shape ashes into ashes” because “besides\, I can’t tell you what on earth I’m doing.” In the world of these poems\, all one can do is survive the contradictions and cruel mysteries embedded in a contemporary life of empty homes\, RFID\, mall shooting bullet casings\, drone targets\, miscarriages\, divorce\, and suicide. These poems engage deeply with the theodicies of the Book of Job\, evangelicalism\, class theory\, and even the manic crises of Berryman’s “Dream Songs.” At times elegiac\, always fearlessly confessional\, and even tragicomic\, Robbins does not resist hope. With intelligence and style to spare\, Robbins displays a fierce concern for this world of things\, caught as we are between what is and what should be. \n\nJoshua Robbins was born in Berkeley\, California\, and grew up in the East Bay. After earning an MFA in Poetry at the University of Oregon and a PhD in English from the University of Tennessee\, he joined the English Department at the University of the Incarnate Word\, where he is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing. His primary teaching areas are poetry writing\, trauma writing\, and creative nonfiction. His first book\, Praise Nothing\, was published by the University of Arkansas Press in 2013 as part of the prestigious Miller Williams Series in Poetry. Eschatology in Crayon Wax was published in 2024 by Texas Review Press. His recognitions include\, the James Wright Poetry Award\, the New South Prize\, Best New Poets\, and a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship in poetry from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, among others. He currently lives in San Antonio. Visit Joshua at http://www.joshuarobbins.net/ \n\nAbout the Moderator \nGeorge David Clark is the author of Reveille (Arkansas)\, winner of the Miller Williams Prize\, and Newly Not Eternal (LSU\, 2024). His work has received honors from the Association of Literary Scholars\, Critics\, and Writers (the Meringoff Prize in Poetry)\, Colgate University (the Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship)\, Narrative Magazine (the 30 Below Prize)\, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference (the Walter E. Dakin Fellowship)\, and Valparaiso University (the Lily Postdoctoral Fellowship)\, among others. David’s recent poems can be found in Agni\, The Believer\, The Georgia Review\, The Gettysburg Review\, The Southern Review\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, and elsewhere. Since 2011\, he has edited the journal\, 32 Poems. He teaches creative writing at Washington & Jefferson College and lives in Canonsburg\, PA.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-joshua-robbins/
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