Workshops/Readings/Presentations
See below for sessions, times, locations, and descriptions!
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Kris Spisak: Grammartopia (12:00-12:55) Library
This is a game-show style panel, where two teams will battle it out over their language-use savvy in this entertaining and educational program. Even the audience will be invited to participate as the game seeks out the best communicators and celebrates the power of using our words well.
Amy Tudor: Poem Into Song: An Intro to Songwriting (1:00-2:00) Room 303
Valley Haggard Life in 10 Minutes Workshop (1:00-2:00) Library
In this hands-on writing workshop, we will explore free-writing techniques designed to help us express, imagine, translate and heal our experiences, dreams, and memories as they emerge on the page. Everyone should have a notebook and a pen. We will write by hand!
Bird Cox-- Lies, Truth and Other Stuff (2:05-3:05) Room 304
This pre-writing workshop will dig into your life as well as the stories you love most to develop rich, inventive characters and settings. We'll also talk memorable first sentences, so come prepared with a few favorites to share.
Ron Smith--Human Beings Can’t Go Straight: Some Brutish Humility (2:05-3:05) Library
Former Virginia Poet Laureate Ron Smith will examine the aesthetic implications of (1) the “shaped poem” and (2) the failed epiphany.
Michele Young-Stone--Fiction Writing and Visual Art/Collage (3:10-4:25) B-16
In this workshop, we will use our fiction to visually construct a scene, idea or “big picture.” Required: Bring a short story, idea, or poem (SOME WORDS) that you’d like to represent visually. (Bring in any font/size you’d like.) We will cut out excerpts from our writing to incorporate into our visual creations.
David Coogan-- Writing Your Way Out (4:30-6:00) Library
Writing Our Way Out is the creative culmination of a writing class that began in the Richmond City Jail in Virginia, and grew into a journey to re-entry. Compiled in a narrative by their teacher, Dr. David Coogan, these stories reveal the formative and transformative memories of men struggling to be free. Come hear their stories and learn how you can write your way out of your own mental prison with David Coogan, an English professor at VCU, Kelvin Belton, Ron Fountain, Terrence Scruggs, and Dean Turner, co-authors of Writing Our Way Out: Memoirs from Jail.
This is a game-show style panel, where two teams will battle it out over their language-use savvy in this entertaining and educational program. Even the audience will be invited to participate as the game seeks out the best communicators and celebrates the power of using our words well.
Amy Tudor: Poem Into Song: An Intro to Songwriting (1:00-2:00) Room 303
Valley Haggard Life in 10 Minutes Workshop (1:00-2:00) Library
In this hands-on writing workshop, we will explore free-writing techniques designed to help us express, imagine, translate and heal our experiences, dreams, and memories as they emerge on the page. Everyone should have a notebook and a pen. We will write by hand!
Bird Cox-- Lies, Truth and Other Stuff (2:05-3:05) Room 304
This pre-writing workshop will dig into your life as well as the stories you love most to develop rich, inventive characters and settings. We'll also talk memorable first sentences, so come prepared with a few favorites to share.
Ron Smith--Human Beings Can’t Go Straight: Some Brutish Humility (2:05-3:05) Library
Former Virginia Poet Laureate Ron Smith will examine the aesthetic implications of (1) the “shaped poem” and (2) the failed epiphany.
Michele Young-Stone--Fiction Writing and Visual Art/Collage (3:10-4:25) B-16
In this workshop, we will use our fiction to visually construct a scene, idea or “big picture.” Required: Bring a short story, idea, or poem (SOME WORDS) that you’d like to represent visually. (Bring in any font/size you’d like.) We will cut out excerpts from our writing to incorporate into our visual creations.
David Coogan-- Writing Your Way Out (4:30-6:00) Library
Writing Our Way Out is the creative culmination of a writing class that began in the Richmond City Jail in Virginia, and grew into a journey to re-entry. Compiled in a narrative by their teacher, Dr. David Coogan, these stories reveal the formative and transformative memories of men struggling to be free. Come hear their stories and learn how you can write your way out of your own mental prison with David Coogan, an English professor at VCU, Kelvin Belton, Ron Fountain, Terrence Scruggs, and Dean Turner, co-authors of Writing Our Way Out: Memoirs from Jail.