Shape Your Story for Spring!
Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 7pm
- All Ages, Bar with ID
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The shape of your writing can change your story and its effect on readers. Find your story's best shape at this workshop.
The shape of your writing can change your story and its effect on readers. Whether it's short or long, fiction, non-fiction or memoir — find your story's best shape at this workshop.
A story's shape is more than the way it's told, and at the UW on Tuesday, April 1, Waverly Fitzgerald, who's taught writing for three decades, explains your shape choices — including braids, collage, the traditional narrative arc, the circle, the frame, the faucet, and the lyric essay — and how to pick the right structures for your stories.
Fitzgerald has written fourteen novels, including three humorous mysteries in the ongoing "Barking Detective" series as Waverly Curtis with co-author Curt Colbert. She teaches for Richard Hugo House and Creative Nonfiction online, and has written numerous essays, articles and blog posts.
Waverly also writes essays about finding nature in the city, and has received support for this work from Artist Trust, Jack Straw, Hedgebrook and the Whiteley Center. The Center for Urban Horticulture's a perfect place to get out of the house on a spring evening to hear her!
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Wine, Cheese & Tea provided. Doors open at 6:15 p.m. for snacks & social. Workshop starts at 7 p.m.
Free Parking's Included in Your Ticket!
This event is hosted by the Seattle Free Lances organization (seattlefreelances.org).
Originally founded as a society of professional writers, in recent years Seattle Free Lances membership has grown to include publishing industry professionals and writers actively working toward publication.
Our goal is to support the continued success of our published members while also encouraging the aspirations of those writers whose ultimate aim is to become published.
We meet once a month, on the first Tuesday evening, to share our stories, seek encouragement and enjoy the fellowship of our peers.
A story's shape is more than the way it's told, and at the UW on Tuesday, April 1, Waverly Fitzgerald, who's taught writing for three decades, explains your shape choices — including braids, collage, the traditional narrative arc, the circle, the frame, the faucet, and the lyric essay — and how to pick the right structures for your stories.
Fitzgerald has written fourteen novels, including three humorous mysteries in the ongoing "Barking Detective" series as Waverly Curtis with co-author Curt Colbert. She teaches for Richard Hugo House and Creative Nonfiction online, and has written numerous essays, articles and blog posts.
Waverly also writes essays about finding nature in the city, and has received support for this work from Artist Trust, Jack Straw, Hedgebrook and the Whiteley Center. The Center for Urban Horticulture's a perfect place to get out of the house on a spring evening to hear her!
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Wine, Cheese & Tea provided. Doors open at 6:15 p.m. for snacks & social. Workshop starts at 7 p.m.
Free Parking's Included in Your Ticket!
This event is hosted by the Seattle Free Lances organization (seattlefreelances.org).
Originally founded as a society of professional writers, in recent years Seattle Free Lances membership has grown to include publishing industry professionals and writers actively working toward publication.
Our goal is to support the continued success of our published members while also encouraging the aspirations of those writers whose ultimate aim is to become published.
We meet once a month, on the first Tuesday evening, to share our stories, seek encouragement and enjoy the fellowship of our peers.
