Festival of Words Workshops offer a chance for participants to learn from established authors. Authors will lead students through invention techniques, helping them to write their own poem or prose. The sessions will not include critique-only writing, but they will provide guidance and inspiration, and will present an opportunity to share your workshop writing if you wish.
Workshops are available on a 1st come, 1st served basis. To reserve a place, please send a donation of $10 ($25 for 3-workshop package) or more, and your place will be reserved.
PAYMENTS can be made through ZEFFY, or checks can be mailed to Festival of Words,506 Plaza Village Drive, Lafayette, LA 70506
This workshop will focus on building understanding of classic creative narrative structure through examination of conflict in literature and comics. We will briefly explore classic and contemporary-classic texts in each of these genres, including Moby Dick, The Fault in Our Stars, Calvin and Hobbes, The Great Gatsby, The Lord of the Rings, and other works. We will unpack how their authors utilize point of view and conflict to lend their work movement, texture, and high narrative stakes. We will also discuss how the perspectives and conflict within these benchmark texts can influence our own personal narratives. We will break down how tone, tense, characterization and other elements of world-building can generate conflict in our own writing, and well work to gain facility with these elements. Finally, using these tools, we will practice crafting our own conflict-centered narrative poem, flash fiction piece, or short comic (students choice), and if time allows, students may choose to present their work to the class. Two hours.
Course will include a PowerPoint presentation.
Max Enrollment: 15 (13 seats left)
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