An offshoot of last fall’s Writing Through Change workshop, Gay City is hosting a new writing workshop series titled SMUDGY NOTEBOOK.
The Winter Session
* Mondays, 7:30 – 9:30pm
* 24 Jan – 7 Mar 2011 (8 wks)
* Cost: $50 (01/24 session is free. Need-based scholarships are avail.)
* @ Gay City Health Project, 511 E Pike
* Instructors: Kevin Skiena & Susan Rees
Each 8-week session will have a unique focus/topic. For the winter session, inky pen, we will focus on basic writing techniques such as: point of view, setting, character development, allegory/ fable/ metaphor, poetry and short story form/structure, and others. Our goal is to foster an understanding of writing on a literary level. Each week we will have an informal discussion concerning a specific writing technique or tool, and focus our attention on developing and/or honing our skills in that area. This queer-friendly course is open to women, trans-folk, and men, and is designed to accommodate beginners and more advanced writers.
For more info, please contact Kevin @ (206) 850-1575 or Susan @ (206) 388-1707 or susan@gaycity.org
KEVIN SKIENA received his MFA in Fiction writing from the University of Washington in 2006. He is a winner of the A. E. Hotchner Playwriting Competition (2004) and the Eugene Van Buren Prize for fiction (2004-05). His stories have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review and Gay City: Volume 2.
SUSAN REES earned a BA in English from the University of Texas in 2006. She has performed her poetry at the Bent Mentor Showcase and for the Shifting Words series in 2009. She continues to perform spoken word at open mics, and to work towards publication in written word.
More information here.
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