Write Now, A Creative Nonfiction Workshop with Kristin Dombek
Jul
7
to Jul 12

Write Now, A Creative Nonfiction Workshop with Kristin Dombek

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Tinker Mountain Writers Workshops

Hollins University

Roanoke, VA

This write-now workshop invites you to bring a small archive of evidence to the mountain: a keepsake, a letter, some photographs, your interview notes/transcripts, an important journal, screenshots, art objects (or transportable representations), a song, a book, audio recordings, or any other kind of artifacts you want to attend to. We’ll use what you bring as sources and prompts for our narratives. After drafting moments, lines and images, scenes, portraits, anecdotes, and flashes of memory, we’ll explore how we might combine these fragments into more-finished work. Through readings and discussion, we’ll investigate elements of creative nonfiction such as dual-time frames, the narrative impulse versus reflection, character development, scenes, voice, rhythm, and effective prose. But the main focus of the workshop will be on your writing process, the material you generate, and sharing that material with a sympathetic audience. Class time will be dedicated to sharing work, discussing the art and craft of writing, and perhaps working on an exercise or two. Outside of class, you’ll be asked to write in response to prompts or wherever the muse takes you. The goal at the end of our week is to develop new material and new resources for fashioning your essays, stories, and/or memoirs. Open to all levels.

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Trust in the Apocalypse
Sep
28
2:00 PM14:00

Trust in the Apocalypse

Sarah Lawrence College

MFA Program

Heimbold Visual Arts Center 202 Donnelley Film Theatre

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021 / Tuesday

2:00pm-3:00pm

This in-person event is open to current students, faculty, and staff. Other members of the SLC community are welcome to view the event on Zoom by registering here.

Today in June we are waiting for the Pentagon to say what they haven't said about UFOs, and hearing the virus may indeed have been leaked from a lab. I am thinking about the difference between the stories we trust because we are expecting to hear them, need to hear them, can't imagine beyond them--and the intimate and surprising trust great writers of nonfiction (journalists, but also essayists and fiction writers and poets) inspire. What September will be like I do not know but maybe I will talk about this: toxic narrativity, on the one hand, and on the other, the craft of trust, its mystery across forms and genres, and the deep personal work of becoming trustworthy.

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Jul
11
11:00 AM11:00

Criticism Amid Crisis: Public Talk

Burnaway Magazine Art Writing Incubator

Saturday, July 11, 2021
11:00AM – 12:00PM EST

Burnaway’s signature education program, the Art Writing Incubator (AWrI) will host five, virtual public talks throughout Summer 2021 with Burnaway’s masthead, four guest Mentors, and a keynote lecture. In short, hour-long talks each speaker will explore this year’s AWrI theme, Criticism Amid Crisis as it relates to their respective work as curators, writers, artists, theorists, and musicians. Audience members are invited to stay for a brief Q&A. Following the public component, AWrI students will then join the mentors in a private, intensive workshop.

Each lecture will be hosted virtually via Zoom, is open to the public, and free with registration. All are welcome to attend all five talks, and attendance is required for AWrI students.

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Rona Jaffe Reading, Brooklyn Book Festival
Sep
12
7:00 PM19:00

Rona Jaffe Reading, Brooklyn Book Festival

Celebrating Women Writers with The Rona Jaffe Foundation
THIS IS AN OFFICIAL 2018 BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL EVENT

A Reading with past RJF Writers’ Awards winners Ama Codjoe, Meehan Crist, Kristin Dombek, and Apricot Irving
Poet and Cave Canem and MacDowell fellow Ama Codjoe; Essayist, science writer, and host of Convergence, a show about the future, Meehan Crist; Kristin Dombek (The Selfishness of Others: An Essay on the Fear of Narcissism, FSG, 2016); and Apricot Irving (The Gospel of Trees, Simon & Schuster, 2018, a memoir of a missionary’s daughter in Haiti) will read from their work.

KGB Bar Red Room
85 East 4th Street, NYC (between Bowery and 2nd Avenue)-Broadway-Lafayette Subway
Free Admission
www.kgbbar.com
www.ronajaffefoundation.org

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