| 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 We will work with prompts and epigraphs. Participants will bring to the workshop 3 titles of songs, 3 sentences/lines from stories or poems, and 3 lines from news articles, newspapers, or broadcasts that have stuck with them in all cases material that is provocative and that they might want to expand onto a poem. Examples: Joni Mitchells I Wish I Had a River I Could Skate Away On Robert Frosts He will not go behind his fathers saying from Mending Wall Or Go and be fish again from Ernest J. Gaines THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MISS JANE PITTMAN. Mona Hardins Hes my son! on the various tv and newsprint reports as well as testimony on hearings on the death of Ronald Green. | |||