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Upcoming workshops and opportunities for writers
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Explore the landscape of your life—
from a distance, and up close!

I am a writer trained to see metaphor. Lately, I've been fascinated with the horizon, big skies, mountains and gorgeous vistas. Standing on firm ground, the horizon is eight miles away and we can never reach it. But in the Smokies, at 4,000-plus feet, we could see for miles and miles and miles. With such distance from the horizon, I feel the wonder at my insignificance.  

So it is with memoir writing. Writing about scenes from the landscape of life helps us to achieve distance from the experience. What was once memory, becomes a story. People become characters.  And you begin to embrace the plot of your life! 

Of course, we cannot capture the entire landscape. There is so much that we cannot see—the black bears, waterfalls and the life teeming in the trees and mountain lakes.  The story depends on the place from which the writer has viewed a personal landscape.

So, how to begin? As the Chinese mystic, Lao Tzu. said, "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."   Consider taking a step onto the path that will lead you on a storytelling journey.  Write your life! Join a six-week memoir workshop beginning Thursday, October 27 at 6 PM at the Shape & Flow writing studio!

$160 per person for six sessions 2.5 hours each
Subsequent meetings are scheduled at the first workshop to accommodate participants.

Check out these opportunities for writers!

The 6th annual Writer’s Block Festival will be on Saturday, November 5 at the Tim Faulkner Gallery. The Festival features a publishing panel, readings, a print & resource fair, craft workshops, a book discussion of our keynote speaker's novel, Fates and Furies, and a spoken word workshop with slam master, Lance Newman. The only cost to this event is for the small craft workshops ($35 each). Scholarships are available.

The Writer’s Block Festival begins on the previous evening,,with the InKY Reading Series— Friday, November 4, at 7:00 PM at the Bard's Town—featuring poet, Maggie Smith and novelist and Iowa Writers Workshop Director, Lan Samantha Chang. Smith and Chang will teach workshops at the Festival, along with novelist/playwright Angela Jackson-Brown, essayist Julie Marie Wade, and young adult fiction author, Bethany Griffin. Learn about the workshop leaders and workshop descriptions, and enroll today!  All participating writers will sign their books via Carmichael's.  

Our keynote, Lauren Groff, will read from her novel, answer your questions and sign books, beginning 5 PM.
 
The Tim Faulkner Gallery has ample parking, is fully accessible and includes a full-service coffee shop—McQuixote’s.  The food truck Zoom Zoom Yum will also be on site between 11 AM and 1PM.

 

 

Structured Play: A Fiction Writing Workshop 

Safai Café

1707 Bardstown Road

Saturday, October 15,
9:30 AM - 12:00 PM

$30 per person; scholarships available for youth 17-20 and persons over 65 years
 
Join author and InKY reader, Kyle Coma-Thompson, for a 2.5 hour workshop this Saturday!

Coma-Thompson will discuss techniques for conceiving story ideas and for turning those ideas into fully developed stories. Through three interlinked writing exercises, participants will assemble a short story from its beginning stages to a first full draft. In doing so, you will gain a clearer understanding of how to remain engaged with a piece of writing at every point of its development.


Come hear Kyle read short fiction on Friday evening, October 14th at The Bard's Town lounge.  Enroll today!
 

“Memoir isn’t the summary of a life; it’s a window into a life, very much like a photograph in its selective composition. It may look like a casual and even random calling up of bygone events. It’s not; it’s a deliberate construction.”

~William Zinsser~
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