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• WA011 Small Moments, Epic Tales: The Art of Growing Essays into Memoirs

  • Start
    01 Apr 2025
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  • End
    03 Jun 2025
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  • Schedule
    10 sessions
  • Location
    Zoom
  • Spaces left
    5

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  SMALL MOMENTS, EPIC TALES: The Art of Growing Essays into Memoirs

  Course Description:
  

  Join a supportive community of international writers to learn how to transform your personal essays into compelling book-length memoirs.

  In this intimate ten-week workshop, explore how small moments can blossom into powerful, full-length works by examining the way celebrated authors have successfully expanded their essays into memorable memoirs.

  Also, using practical tools such as close reading, discussion, and workshopping your own work, learn to identify the universal themes in your personal narratives and develop them into longer works.

  Administrative Notes:

  This course is also open to nonmember participants at a slightly higher cost, but a 3-month WICE membership is included.

  This class is on ZOOM.

  About the Instructor: 

  

  With degrees in journalism and creative writing, Jennifer Lauck is the New York Times and London Times bestselling writer of the memoirs Blackbird, Still Waters, Found and The Summer of ’72.

  She has also published a series of interlocking essays in the collection titled Show Me the Way and has had essays published in several anthology collections, including Knitting Yarns. She teaches creative writing in the US and abroad.

  
  

  • https://blackbirdstudiopdx.com/
  • https://jenniferlauck.substack.com/

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• WA091 Fiction Workshop II

  • Start
    09 Apr 2025
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  • End
    28 May 2025
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  • Schedule
    8 sessions
  • Location
    Address will be sent a few days before the first class
  • Spaces left
    2

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  FICTION WORKSHOP II

  Course Description:

  This popular weekly fiction workshop (short or long fiction) is returning! It includes craft conversation on topics such as dialogue, story structure, character development, pacing and plot based on current best practices in creative writing.

  Over the course of eight sessions, you will workshop two of your own pieces (either novel chapters or short stories) for supportive and rigorous group feedback.
  

  Administrative Notes:

  ** This class is for experienced writers and admission is by application: Send five double-spaced pages of your best prose to: creativewriting@wice-paris.org **

  This course is also open to nonmember participants at a slightly higher cost, but a 3-month WICE membership is included.

  
  

  About the Instructor: 

  Shannon Cain is the author of The Necessity of Certain Behaviors, winner of the 2001 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Her stories have been recognized by the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts, the O. Henry Prize, and the Pushcart Prize. Founder of La Maison Baldwin, a residency program for Black writers, she has taught creative writing at the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, and in the MFA program at Bennington College.

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• WY171 The Poetry Playground: A Beginner's Journey

  • When
    17 May 2025
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    11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    In person, to be shared after registration
  • Spaces left
    4

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  The Poetry Playground: A Beginner's Journey

   “A poet is, before anything else, a     person who is passionately in love with   language.”     W. H. Auden

  Course Description:

  If you’re passionate about, and fascinated by, words—from their deep meanings to their unique sounds to their typography on the page—but you've been intimidated by poetry, this three-hour workshop is for you.

  We will look at a variety of poems, ranging in dates from a seventeenth-century sonnet by William Shakespeare to Diane Seuss’ un-rhymed sonnets published in 2021. We will also study free verse and its rich and long history, with examples including Emily Dickinson, Guillaume Apollinaire, John Keats, Sylvia Plath, and William Carlos Williams. We’ll discuss fundamental elements of poetry including structure, style and tone, voice, theme, sound and imagery.

  Finally, we will use some of the poems as departure points for two prompts to get you writing.

  Join us for a passionate and in-depth introduction to poetry—what it is and how it is—and share inspirations both on and off the page.

  
  

  About the Instructor: 

  

  Heather Hartley’s poetry collections include Adult Swim and Knock Knock, both published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. She was Paris Editor for Tin House magazine for over fifteen years.

  Her short fiction, poems, essays and interviews have appeared in or on PBS Newshour, The Guardian, The Literary Review and other venues. She teaches creative writing at the University of Kent’s (UK) Paris School of Arts and Culture and has also taught at the American University of Paris and the University of Texas El Paso MFA program.

  www.heatherhartleyink.com

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