Memoir Writers Workshop: A Feast of Losses: Writing Into Transience

Saturday, Sep 15, 2012 9:00a to 5:00p

Art Jam Studio, Suite E Berkeley, CA

In this workshop, we’ll explore the relationship of creativity and grief. Grief can feel like a singular unprecedented experience and to encounter writing that speaks from within that experience can help us start to find our way through it. Is there a place no writing can reach? Or can writing actually help us reach into depths of feeling previously inaccessible to us? What do we find there and how is it different from what we fear?

The course will be generative, experiential, and analytical. We’ll… Show more do a series of intensive writing exercises throughout the day and participants will have an opportunity to have their work discussed in the group.

This workshop is sponsored by Memoir Journal and includes a one-year subscription to 'Memoir,' a literary journal featuring the best works of emerging writers, poets and photographers.

Genine Lentine is the author of Mr. Worthington’s Beautiful Experiments on Splashes and Poses: An Essay Drawn from the Model, and co-author with Stanley Kunitz of The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden. Her recent work appears in Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, Shareable.net, and Best Buddhist Writing 2011. She is a 2012 Lucas Literary Arts Fellow at Montalvo Arts Center and a summer 2012 resident at the University of Arizona Poetry Center.

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