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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Fact\, Memory\, Imagination: Connecting the Dots to Uncover Meaning in Our Moments
DESCRIPTION:You have the raw materials of a story or the start of an idea. But how can you turn information into artful narrative? By exploring the craft of the literary list\, you’ll find the moments of surprise and epiphany that turn bare facts into powerful art.\n\n\n\nFor Creative Nonfiction\, Fiction\, & Poetry \n\n\n\nUnexpected juxtapositions create meaning. Unusual sequences. Well-framed themes. In writers like Tracy K. Smith\, Sonya Huber\, Pablo Neruda\, and Christina Sharpe\, we discover—and can learn from—the power of deliberately chosen details and masterfully constructed themes. \n\n\n\nJust as a puzzle becomes a picture\, it’s the connections and the order of information that transform moments into a compelling narrative. In this webinar\, we’ll examine how Pablo Neruda’s poetry collection Odes to Common Things proves the power of the list as a starting place for a story and see how poems that begin as seemingly simple declarations evolve into compelling narratives.  \n\n\n\nWe’ll learn from the masters. We’ll practice artful list building. We’ll explore\, as well\, the child’s dot-to-dot puzzle and how its emphasis on dots\, lines\, and color can help us frame our works in progress.  \n\n\n\nPrepare to write briefly to prompts. Prepare to discover epiphanies. Prepare for a process that is not just fruitful but fun. Beth will close by sharing the process she used to write Tomorrow Will Bring Sunday’s News: A Philadelphia Story\, which draws on fact\, memory\, and imagination—on dots\, and lines\, and color. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nENJOY the clever evolution of Neruda’s poems\n\n\n\nEXPLORE the power of lists in the making of stories\, prose and poems\n\n\n\nLEARN to convert stodgy facts into interesting scenes\n\n\n\nGAIN insights into the literary fulcrum and cascade (and what\, precisely\, those are)\n\n\n\nPURSUE the elevated ending in your own writing\n\n\n\nLEARN how Beth Kephart developed a constellation of dots to create the hybrid novel based on her family history\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers who:\n\n\n\n\nhaving compiled or discovered facts\, wish to advance the story\n\n\n\nwishing to write intimate memoir\, poetry or fiction\n\n\n\nbegin with lists\, or writers who have eschewed them\n\n\n\nwishing to have more fun with the process\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNational Book Award finalist Beth Kephart is the award-winning author of some forty books in multiple genres\, an award-winning teacher\, a paper artist\, and the author of the popular Substack\, The Hush and the Howl. My Life in Paper: Adventures in Ephemera was a finalist in the 2025 Pattis Family Foundation Creative Arts Book Award. Tomorrow Will Bring Sunday’s News: A Philadelphia Story was a Silver Medalist in the North American Book Awards (historical fiction). “Conversations with Women in Blue” won the 2025 Creative Nonfiction Prize from The Porch.Questions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nFULL REFUNDS ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/fact-memory-imagination/
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Using Research in Creative Nonfiction and Fiction: How Facts Enhance Creative Work
DESCRIPTION:“Sometimes it’s not enough simply to peer intently into your own soul. Sometimes you have to look out the window and see the world in all its complicated glory.” ~ Philip Gerard\, The Art of Creative Research: A Field Guide for Writers.\n\n\n\nFor Creative Nonfiction and Fiction Writers \n\n\n\nFor many writers\, “research” got separated from our creative impulses sometime in high school. We associate sources and quotes with credibility rather than inspiration. We assume that poets\, essayists\, and novelists operate purely from their muse\, that it’s only imagination that produces art.  \n\n\n\nBut research is an important but often overlooked collaborator and powerful tool in the writing process. Even in this squishy age of “truthiness” and “fake news\,” writers can enhance their fictional narratives\, poetic images\, and personal stories with chosen facts\, carefully uncovered and discovered. \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, we will examine how writers such as Anthony Doerr\, Sabrina Imbler\, Adam Hochschild\, Sandra Tsing Loh\, Hilary Mantel\, Robert Pinsky\, Sarah Vowell and Ellen Austin-Li use “creative research” in their work\, and to what effect. We’ll discuss the ways “fact” can help you reach your truth — whether you’re writing historical fiction about the 18th century or trying to accurately capture a hazy family memory — and how to make facts and data come alive on the page. \n\n\n\nWe’ll look at preparing a research plan for your own projects\, balancing research and writing time\, and how not to get lost in the research. We’ll also go over research and reporting tools and skills\, including interviewing\, fieldwork\, and using archives. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nDISCOVER the many ways in which research can be used in creative writing\n\n\n\nLEARN about research methods and techniques\n\n\n\nEXPLORE how research can be applied to their own projects\n\n\n\nUNDERSTAND how to integrate facts seamlessly into narrative without overwhelming voice\, scene\, or momentum\n\n\n\nDEVELOP a flexible research plan tailored to your genre\, project stage\, and writing goals\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers who:\n\n\n\n\nwonder how to navigate fact versus fiction\n\n\n\nare curious about how to integrate research into their projects\n\n\n\nwant their work to feel grounded\, credible\, and vivid\n\n\n\nfeel intimidated by research but suspect it could strengthen their writing\n\n\n\nare working on projects that require accuracy without sacrificing imagination\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEthan Gilsdorf is a writer\, teacher\, performer\, and a huge nerd. He is the author of the award-winning memoir Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks. His work appears in the New York Times\, Washington Post\, Esquire\, Wired\, Salon\, O the Oprah Magazine\, Huffington Post\, Brevity\, Electric Literature\, Poetry\, and The Southern Review\, among other publications\, and is named “Notable” by The Best American Essays. Questions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nFULL REFUNDS ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Point of View: Finding the Right Lens for Your Story
DESCRIPTION:When you understand the purpose of your story\, you can choose the best perspective to bring it to life. \n\n\n\nFor All Writers \n\n\n\nWhether writing fiction\, memoir\, or poetry\, understanding point of view/POV is essential to clear\, compelling writing. One of the most complex craft tools available to writers\, point of view is frequently a source of frustration and confusion. Point of view in story is so much more than your 1st\, 2nd\, or 3rd-person pronoun choice. Point of view depends on a story’s purpose\, the perspective that a character (or narrator/author) inhabits\, and the emotional distance that the point of view has from both character and story. To top it off\, ‘point of view’ and ‘perspective’ also mean ‘opinion\,’ which is not at all what they mean in creative writing.  \n\n\n\nEven if you’re confident in your current point of view choice for your work-in-progress\, when you inevitably find yourself stuck in a scene\, an exercise in changing the point of view can reveal new aspects of the scene and subject\, creating deeper and more compelling stories and poems.  \n\n\n\nThis webinar balances craft instruction on the three primary points of view (and their subsets) with opportunities to practice playing with less familiar choices and distances to see how they impact your scene. \n\n\n\nBring a short scene you’re working on or stuck in if you’d like to use that for practice\, but that’s not required to participate in the exercises. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it live? No worries—a replay will be available to all registrants. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nLEARN the three major point-of-view options and their subsets\n\n\n\nEXPLORE how psychic/emotional distance impacts point of view\n\n\n\nVIEW examples of a variety of point-of-view strategies\n\n\n\nDISCUSS the pros and cons of different point-of-view choices\n\n\n\nPRACTICE applying various point-of-view choices to a sample scene\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers…\n\n\n\n\nAre overwhelmed by the enormity of point of view\n\n\n\nAre curious about how point of view can deepen their writing\n\n\n\nWant to experiment with unfamiliar points of view\n\n\n\nConsistently use only one point of view in their work and want to broaden their tools\n\n\n\nFrequently receive feedback that they’ve “changed point of view” or are “head-hopping” and don’t know how to fix that\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaraine Herring’s memoir\, A Constellation of Ghosts: A Speculative Memoir with Ravens\, was released in 2021 from Regal House. She’s the editor of the anthology Becoming Real: Women Reclaim the Power of the Imagined through Speculative Nonfiction (Pact Press\, 2024)\, and a trilogy of writing books from Shambhala\, including Writing Begins with the Breath: Embodying Your Authentic Voice. She’s a retired professor of creative writing and psychology\, and has worked with writers for thirty years. She’s also an illustrator and a grief counselor\, and creator of The Grief Forest: a book about what we don’t talk about. She founded the online ‘zine Hags on Fire\, a place for women to share stories about menopause\, and co-designed The Imaginal Memoir Cave immersion program with Gayle Brandeis. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, Tiferet\, The Rumpus\, The Manifest-Station\, and many more places. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in Counseling Psychology\, and lives in the mountains of northern Arizona with many cats. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nFULL REFUNDS ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | The Fallacy of One Voice: The Fractured Self in Memoir
DESCRIPTION:Writers are often searching for their “voice” on the page. But in good writing\, especially in memoir\, writers balance multiple voices to tell their stories. \n\n\n\nFor Creative Nonfiction and Memoir Writers \n\n\n\nAs a teacher of creative writing for the last 30 years\, I have found that the goal of most emerging writers is to “find their voice.” But why is this idea of “voice” phrased in the singular?  \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, we will not only discuss the many voices within us but also talk about how the singular voice in contemporary American memoirs is a fallacy. That we live in a fractured place\, with a fractured history\, occupied by fractured citizens. But there is beauty in fractures. It is what memoir writers explore—the cracks and crevices of our lives.  \n\n\n\nDuring the webinar\, we will look at voice from many perspectives: 1) what voices get us to the page or prevent us from getting to the page; 2) how writers control voice in their writing—like Lidia Yuknavitch\, Kiese Laymon\, and Stephen Kuusisto; 3) analyze how multiple voices weave seamlessly through one another.  We explore our many fractured identities and how to put those identities on the page. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it live? No worries—a replay will be available to all registrants. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nANALYZE how other writers use multiple voices in their life writing\n\n\n\nINTERROGATE the myth of the singular voice in American memoir\n\n\n\nCONSIDER the relationship between fractured identity\, history\, and narrative voice.\n\n\n\nCREATE language rules for our voices\n\n\n\nREFLECT on which voices enable or obstruct a writer’s ability to tell the truth\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for intermediate and advanced writers who are…\n\n\n\n\nwriting a memoir or deeply interested in exploring life writing\n\n\n\ninterested in nontraditional memoirs\n\n\n\neager to deepen their understanding of voice in complex\, nontraditional writing\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIra Sukrungruang is the author of the forthcoming book\, Under and Up: Fatherhood and Fear in the Age of Distrust. He has published four nonfiction books:This Jade World\, Buddha’s Dog & Other Meditations\, Southside Buddhist\, and Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist; the short story collection The Melting Season; and the poetry collection In Thailand It Is Night.  Ira is the recipient of the 2022 Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year in Nonfiction\, 2015 American Book Award\, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature\, an Arts and Letters Fellowship\, and the Anita Claire Scharf Award in Poetry. His work has appeared in many literary journals\, including The Rumpus\, American Poetry Review\, The Sun\, andCreative Nonfiction. He is one of the founding editors of Sweet: A Literary Confection (sweetlit.com)\, and is the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nFULL REFUNDS ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
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