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SUMMARY:REPLAY | The Magic of Micro Prose: Find Your Story in 300 Words or Less
DESCRIPTION:Unlock your storytelling potential and share your words with captivating brevity.\n\n\n\nREPLAY INCLUDES : VIDEO\, CHAT SCRIPT\, AUDIO FILE\, SLIDES\, HANDOUT\, AND TRANSCRIPT & MORE \n\n\n\nMicro prose—stories told in 300 words or less—provides an opportunity for more\, not less. Learn how this short but versatile form can amplify your creative nonfiction work (memoir and personal essay) and even poetry and fiction.  \n\n\n\nWe’ll look at examples of micro in the world\, how you can begin writing micro right away\, and submission opportunities as you ready your work for the world. Darien will share her methods for drafting and crafting micro prose\, and lead an in-class exercise so you can try it for yourself.  \n\n\n\nIf you’ve ever been curious about micro\, now’s a great time to add this powerful form to your writer’s toolbox. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nLEARN about micro prose and its storytelling superpowers\n\n\n\nEXPLORE micro prose possibilities for creative nonfiction\, fiction or poetry projects\n\n\n\nCONSIDER submission and publication options for your own micro prose work \n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers who …\n\n\n\n\nwant to explore new ways to generate material\n\n\n\nare interested in learning more about short-form writing\n\n\n\nare ready to experiment with different ways of telling a story\n\n\n\nwant to publish short work as they write toward longer projects\n\n\n\nwant to deepen their literary craft\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\nDarien Hsu Gee is an international bestselling author published by Penguin Random House and the third Mark Twain Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the University of Connecticut\, following Alexander Chee and Justin Torres. Her work spans genres\, from novels translated into eleven languages to award-winning micro prose and poetry collections. She is the executive editor of Nonwhite and Woman: 131 Micro Essays on Being in the World (IPPY Silver Award) and the author of Allegiance (IPPY Bronze Award)\, Other Small Histories (Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship)\, and Writing the Hawaiʻi Memoir (Ka Palapala Poʻokela Award of Excellence). \n\n\n\nA recipient of a Sustainable Arts Foundation grant and a Vermont Studio Center fellowship\, Darien teaches creative nonfiction at UCLA Extension and Hugo House. She also leads specialized micro prose workshops through her platform\, Writer-ish\, and publishes two Substacks: Writer-ish\, focused on the art of micro prose\, and Drafts\, Deals & Detours\, a real-time look at the working writer’s life. \n\n\n\nHer service to the literary community includes board work with Short Reads and Flash Fiction Institute. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nBecause the replay is delivered instantly upon purchase\, all sales are final. \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/replay-the-magic-of-micro/
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Making Memoir Real: Captivate Your Readers with Dynamic Settings & Characters
DESCRIPTION:Dropping our readers into a particular time\, a particular place\, populated by particular people\, is essential to making readers care about our stories. Learn to create vibrant\, convincing reality on the page.\n\n\n\nFor Memoirist and Essay Writers \n\n\n\nMemoir is a juggling act. As writers\, our job is to bring the potent emotional stakes of our story to the page right from the beginning\, introducing conflicts and launching the book’s dynamic journey. But equally important is establishing the story’s reality and dropping our readers into a particular time\, a particular place\, populated by particular people. This is how readers begin to care deeply and invest their hearts in our work. \n\n\n\nThis interactive webinar will closely examine the techniques of setting and characterization—often taught in fiction workshops—and how important they are to memoir. We will study the difference between mere “description” and active\, dynamic detail and movement. Prompts will be provided for new work and for work-in-progress. \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\nDISCOVER how to transplant readers directly into the world of your memoir through vivid\, specific detail\n\n\n\nLEARN the craft of characterization techniques borrowed from fiction and applied to true stories\n\n\n\nIDENTIFY the difference between static description and dynamic\, active detail that propels your narrative forward\n\n\n\nPRACTICE writing prompts designed to deepen both new work and works-in-progress\n\n\n\nEXPLORE how to establish emotional stakes early while simultaneously grounding readers in time\, place\, and character\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers at any level who…\n\n\n\n\nwould  like their work to immediately capture attention\, to engage agents\, editors and—most of all—readers\n\n\n\nstruggle with “Why would anyone care about my story?”\n\n\n\nworry their prose is moving too slowly\, that they may be “explaining too much” and showing too little\n\n\n\nare insecure about their storytelling skills (that’s all of us)!\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\nOne of our most popular and beloved presenters\, DINTY W. MOORE\, is the author of the memoirs Between Panic & Desire and To Hell With It and the writing guides Crafting the Personal Essay and The Mindful Writer\, among other books. He has published essays and stories in Harper’s\, The New York Times Magazine\, Georgia Review\, Kenyon Review\, Southern Review\, Short Reads\, and elsewhere. He is founding editor of Brevity\, the journal of flash nonfiction. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nBefore the replay is sent\, you may request a refund less a $10.00 processing fee. 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/making-memoir-real/
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