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Karen Subach Twenty Dances toward Flapping Your Wings Again: A Generative Workshop for Writers Slapdash-Mishmash Haberdashery Hash, or Just Write It—Something for Most Writers Twenty Dances toward Flapping Your Wings Again: A Generative Workshop for Writers Breathe. Attend. Feel deeply. This gathering is for revitalizing your creative spirit. Every day we will take a few minutes to share part of a previously made piece (either through reading aloud or through giving out copies for silent reading); we will move into exercises that lead to compelling new work (depending on your medium); and we will read overlapping work from throughout history. Largesse of spirit and mutual support will inform this workshop. All voices are welcome. Before we meet, I request a letter addressing your writing background and nine typed pages of finished work. The pages you send will not be discussed in class; they will serve, rather, to give me a sense of who you are and how I can help catalyze new writing for you. This class is most appropriate for those who have weathered ups and downs within the creative process and are familiar with the complicated commitment of attending to the calling. Former students are encouraged to return; I take joy in seeing how your work is evolving. Slapdash-Mishmash Haberdashery Hash, or Just Write It—Something for Most Writers Bombazine and tulle. Glitter, threads, and fitting. As we plunge into the box of word-triggering material that I will offer you in this generative workshop, I will help you to find imaginative ribbons from your life to shape into poems, stories, plays, essays, or other forms long after our session ends. A significant part of your new work will come out of the images that occur to you in response to what we do, and from your own voice in its many forms. While image and voice may seem to some writers most relevant to work in poetry, I ask you to consider the novel-length fiction of Michael Ondaatje, Rikki Ducornet, Virginia Woolf, and Janet Frame; the short fiction of Richard Ford, Susan Minot, and Christine Schutt; the plays of Romulus Linney, David Caudle, David Roby, and Tammy Ryan; the essays of James P. Carse and Jo Ann Beard; and the screenplays of Jane Campion, Patricia Rozema, and Beth Ferris. We will be inspired by moving examples of work in several genres. Come with your enthusiasm and unconditional positive regard! While a passion for words and sentences would be ideal, the only real requisite is your sincere desire to discover new material. Biography
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