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Two truths and a lie: creative nonfiction | |
Date | Monday February 04 |
Time | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM |
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Location Details | |
KSW's space180, 180 Capp Street, @17th Street, San Francisco CA 94110 | |
Event Type | Other |
Organizer/Author | Sam |
sam [at] kearnystreet.org | |
Phone | 415.503.0520 |
Address | 180 capp street #5 san francisco ca 94110 |
Two truths and a lie: creative nonfiction
a 10-week writing workshop with Bushra Rehman
All ten sessions meet Mondays, 7 - 9pm, at KSW's space180, 180 Capp Street, @17th Street, San Francisco. The workshop will not meet on Monday, February 19th, 2007.
Please note: all multi-session KSW workshops include a public reading and chapbook publication following the final workshop session, coordinated and scheduled by KSW with the workshop participants.
Class Description:
Writing from life can be a tricky business. There are people to protect, faulty memories of events, and the pitfalls of self-censorship and self-aggrandizement. This is where creative non-fiction comes in. It’s a form of writing that is drawn from real life, but employs techniques of poetry and fiction. Permission is given to veer from the facts, to change names and the order of happenings, to start with a true story and end it the way it should have ended. Creative non-fiction recognizes that our lives are too rich not to write about, but that our imaginations are too strong to ignore.
In this class, we will write by drawing on memory, family myth, and the truth and lies of our lives. We will cover literary techniques such as character, dialogue, setting and story arc, as well as performance. We as a collective will give ourselves permission not only to share our life stories, but to re-write them into the stories we want them to be.
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For more event information:
Added to the calendar on Friday Jan 11th, 2008 5:00 PM
http://www.kearnystreet.org |
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