2025 Cliff Notes Writing Conference

October 2-5, 2025

VIRTUAL READINGS LINK

Readings are Free and Open to the Public at the Anasazi State Museum

Readings

Writing Instruction

Discussions

Homework Sharing 

Dave’s 2025 Cliff Notes Homework

Ekphrasis (ecphrasis) - Representation of an artwork of any kind (music, dance, tapestry, painting, etc.) in a literary work (example was Keats’ Ode on a Grecian Urn.) as a literary device.  Representation of a work of art, any kind, into a literary work.  Place a poem inside a novel of a string quartet. Use something from another art form and let it become your dominant metaphor.  Discernible reference to the art piece. You won’t understand the poem unless you see, hear or know the art.  

•  Consider use of irony - lead in one way, meaning is the other.  

• Let the reference to the artwork become a controlling device in the piece. .  

Ekphrasis and Irony

 Each participant has 2-3 minutes to share.  

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