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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
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SUMMARY:SEMINAR | Give Sorrow Words: Grief Writing as Sanctuary
DESCRIPTION:Learn to write compelling pieces that go beyond self-healing to provide paths through grief and sanctuary for your readers.\n\n\n\nLive on Zoom | Saturday & Sunday\, June 6-7 | 1:00-3:00 pm EDTFor All Writers \n\n\n\nArt serves a vital role as witness to events and emotions we have trouble naming. We know which poem arrived at just the right time in our lives\, which song helped us imagine a path through deep feelings\, and which book helped us navigate our grief. \n\n\n\nBut what makes those pieces resonate in readers’ hearts? How does writing foster empathy? How can language\, with its strengths and inadequacies\, help us build sanctuaries within ourselves and where others can go to be witnessed and held? \n\n\n\nTaught by one of our most knowledgeable and empathetic presenters\, this deeply experiential seminar is a hybrid of generative writing and craft conversation. We’ll begin with a gentle writing practice to help you gather the glimmers of your own grief; then move into craft conversation and generative writing portals. grief\, \n\n\n\nWe’ll discuss key craft elements in published poetry\, how they can elevate emotional subjects from sentimentality to specificity\, and connect readers to an emotional experience.   \n\n\n\nWe’ll examine a variety of grieving experiences through the lenses of reckoning\, regret\, remembrance\, ritual\, revitalization\, and restoring (re-story-ing). This framework will offer six possible portals into exploring and writing about your own grief\, creating a sanctuary for your soul and the souls of others.  \n\n\n\nWe will have space for optional sharing at the end. In the seminar’s confirmation email\, you’ll receive a packet of recommended prep work\, containing additional optional readings and links to (very) short films on grief. After the class\, you’ll receive the seminar recording\, slide deck\, and all poems used for our conversation. \n\n\n\nPlease be prepared to write. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this interactive 2-Day live seminar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nLEARN key craft elements that help dramatize emotion\n\n\n\nUNDERSTAND the difference between sentimentality and sentiment\n\n\n\nANALYZE poems addressing different aspects of grief\n\n\n\nENGAGE with your own grief to create six new portals to longer work\n\n\n\nPRACTICE writing through different lenses on grief\n\n\n\nIMAGINE how writing can serve as sanctuary to self and others\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis course is ideal for writers in all genres who are interested in using language to help meet personal and collective grief.\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔Think you might miss class? No worries\, replays will be available 3 business days after the event. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR Instructor\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFunny\, kind\, and direct\, Laraine Herring is a popular CRAFT TALKS presenter and one of our strongest voices on deeply personal writing that powerfully connects with readers. \n\n\n\nLaraine’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. A retired professor of creative writing and psychology\, Lariane 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. Laraine’s work has appeared in The New York Times\, Tiferet\, The Rumpus\, The Manifest-Station\, and many more. 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\nStudent Testimonials \n\n\n\n“Laraine helped my book tell me what it wants to be and challenged me to do the work to get it there. I am grateful for her intuitive\, empathic\, supportive approach\, and for her enthusiasm when I arrived at the realizations she was hoping I’d get to as I did that work. Laraine’s skills are many\, and she is fantastic to work with. She is dedicated\, direct\, detailed\, dependable\, and delightful.” \n\n\n\n— Meg Weber\, author of A Year of Mr. Lucky (Sincyr Publishing) \n\n\n\n“Through Laraine’s authentic nature and ability to listen\, I learned that writing is as much an act of bravery and strength as it is about being gentle and flexible. I can’t wait to be one of her students again!” \n\n\n\n— Naomi Kaplan \n\n\n\n“Without a doubt\, Laraine is the most generous\, inspirational and challenging writing instructor I have ever met. Using provocative writing exercises\, she guided me through creative discovery\, helping reveal ideas and truths I had previously locked away. She challenged me to delve deeper into my story\, even if it meant going into the dark hidden corners.” \n\n\n\n— Janine Weyers \n\n\n\n“Laraine opened doors inside my mind and created space for me to come into relationship with my writing in a refreshing way that was all my own. I had more than one breakthrough working with her. With ease and honesty\, she created an authentic\, interesting and inviting space to grow.” \n\n\n\n— Grace Welker \n\n\n\n“Laraine encourages students to dig deep. She provides original\, interesting exercises designed to pull past the first obvious idea and find the more compelling material underneath. She is as invested in students’ work as the students themselves.” \n\n\n\n— Janet Burrue \n\n\n\nTHE FINE PRINT \n\n\n\nWe understand that life can get in the way of your plans. We want you to be able to get the most out of your course\, and our refund policy is designed to balance your need for flexibility with our deadlines and obligations to our teachers. \n\n\n\nBefore the class\, you may request a refund less a $10.00 processing fee. \n\n\n\nPlease keep in mind that no refunds or credits will be issued after class begins. \n\n\n\nQuestions? 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URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/give-sorrow-words/
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