This year....we're taking it OFF CAMPUS to four locations:
Merrill Memorial Library
317 Main St
Bickford Education Center & Kismet
Yarmouth Historical Society
We want to PUBLISH your work and CREATE an ANTHOLOGY (cool book) of for EACH PARTICIPANT!
Schedule of Creative Writing Day
8:15 Opening
8:30-9:00 As a group, walk to your location
9:00-10:30 Session 1
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:15 Session 2
12:15-1:30 Walk to library, eat lunch, get some feedback,
figure out what you want to read for Open Mic & submit to YAWP!
1:30-2:15 Open Mic
2:15 Walk back to YHS
Four workshops to choose from. Locations TBD. More info below...Scroll down to sign up!
Fiction Writing with Lewis Robinson
Finding Your People: One of the best parts of reading and writing is that it allows us to meet and spend quality time with new, interesting, talkative, quiet, flawed, brilliant, villainous, adventurous, strange, polite, and rude people. In this workshop we’ll uncover, test, and deploy the fictional people we find.
Your Choice of Genre with Gibson Fay-LeBlanc
A Story is a Story is a Story: Whatever form or genre you're writing in these days--poems, flash fiction, novellas, screenplays--you need to find your story's beating heart, its beginning, middle, and end, and the tone and language that will carry it through to its closing. We’ll read some amazing opening gambits and discuss how they pull it off. We’ll try to write our own great openers, use them as tuning forks, and see where they take us.
Poetry Writing with Betsy Sholl
Poetic Voices: How many voices does one person have? We can shout and whisper, brood and joke, sigh and wonder. Somewhere in all those voices there are one or two that speak most fully about what matters to us and our works. In this workshop we’ll try on different voices and listen for which ones ring most true.
Creative Nonfiction with Jaed Coffin & Galen Koch
Radio Diaries: In this workshop, we’ll create a series of radio pieces, based on your very own personal stories. As we create, we’ll produce an audio platform to host these stories, so that they can be shared with all your community. Check out these two platforms to see models of what we’re working toward:
http://www.mainepublic.org/programs/music-moves-me-audio-diaries#stream/0
Please communicate with your teachers. It will be your responsibility to make arrangements to make up missing work and assessments.
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