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| SHORT-TERM
WORKSHOPS Here is a sampling of the many workshops that Rebecca McClanahan conducts. Suggested time period: 2-4 hours |
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| Making Music With Words | This workshop focuses on developing the "ear" of a poet. McClanahan will lead participants through writing activities designed to generate richly-textured passages which will then be incorporated into original poems. | |||||||||
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| Priming the Pump: Poems to Get You Started |
Using her own poems as examples, Rebecca McClanahan leads participants through a series of writing exercises designed to prime the pump for poems or prose pieces. Subjects include portraits of people, memories, dreams, catalogues and lists, and experiments in sound and form. | |||||||||
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| Romancing the Poem | If you've never had an affair with poetry, or if you wish to rekindle your passion, this is the workshop for you. Rebecca McClanahan will help participants break down barriers that keep them from enjoying poetry, and demonstrate new and unusual approaches to reading and writing poems. | |||||||||
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| Creative Nonfiction: What is it, and How do I Begin? |
What distinguishes a work of nonfiction from a work of creative nonfiction? This workshop suggests answers to this question, with particular emphasis on techniques used by published writers, including personal voice, narrative structure, dialogue, attention to detail, and movement between summary and scene. Participants are led through reading and writing activities that may serve as starting places for longer pieces. | |||||||||
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| Introduction
to Creative Nonfiction |
This workshop introduces various forms of creative nonfiction, including memoir, portrait, personal essay, literary journalism, meditation, lyric and segmented essays, and experimental forms. Participants write and share brief weekly assignments, discuss issues of craft and creativity, and learn how to shape nonfiction pieces that retain a personal voice while still exploring universal questions. | |||||||||
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| Advanced Creative Nonfiction |
This workshop, an extension of "Introduction to Creative Nonfiction," focuses on shaping creative nonfiction pieces for the reader's eye. Though participants will continue to write and share brief weekly assignments and discuss issues surrounding creative nonfiction, Rebecca McClanahan will also provide helpful responses to these drafts and suggest possibilities for revision. | |||||||||
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| Word Painting: Writing More Descriptively |
Since all forms of writing utilize description--poetry, novels, essays, stories, biographies, or articles--all writers can benefit from increasing their descriptive powers. This hands-on workshop focuses on painting word pictures that are accurate, sensory, fresh, and evocative, and which contribute to the overall story, poem, or nonfiction piece. Workshop time will be devoted to in-class writing and reading activities, informal lectures, and attention to works-in-progress. | |||||||||
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| Memoir Writing |
How can you shape your personal memories into a piece of writing that others will want to read? This workshop suggests answers to this question, with particular emphasis on techniques such as narrative structure, dialogue, scene building, reflection, and movement between private and public issues. Participants will share works in progress, experiment with new forms, and encourage each other to find the universal residing within their personal stories. | |||||||||
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| What's
In Your Heart: Explorations Through Poetry (suggested audience: grades 3-8) |
These
workshops focus on poetry as a natural expression of our deepest joys,
fears, and dreams. After introducing students to published poems in
various forms, Rebecca McClanahan assists them in writing poems of
their own, individually or in small group settings. She also encourages
them to present their poems orally and to revise them for publication. (Sample poems by students) |
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