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Corporeal Creativity
March 11 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm EDT
(This event is shared with Thurber House agreement to giveaway one ticket to a Write Now Columbus member to one of their spring workshops! If you’re interested in entering please subscribe to the Write Now Columbus Newsletter before Feb. 3rd)
Tuition: $39
ABOUT
How can prose writers and poets enhance writing by translating feelings, memories, and sensations to the page? In this mind-body creative workshop, we will read, write, meditate, and reflect on this question. We’ll begin by looking at writing by Lydia Yuknavitch, Richard Selzer, and Jeanette Winterson to explore different ways to reference sensation on the page and use the body to tell a story or heighten impact. After completing a few writing prompts, we’ll discuss how to balance sensory details with other descriptions and use the body as an instrument to explore memory. This workshop will help you to improve your sensory details, mine life experience, and enhance the impact of your poetry and prose.
INSTRUCTOR
Jen Knox teaches leadership at Ohio State University and is the founder of Unleash Creatives, a holistic arts organization. Her debut novel, We Arrive Uninvited, is the Prose Award winner from Steel Toe Books, and her collection of climate fiction, The Glass City, won the Press Americana Prize for Prose. Jen’s shorter work appears in McSweeney’s Internet Quarterly, The Saturday Evening Post, Prose Online, Chicago Review, and Chicago Tribune, among others. She won the 2023 CutBank Montana Prize in Nonfiction, was a finalist in the 2023 Tom Howard Prose Award for Winning Writers for her essay, “Steady,” and won the San Miguel Writers’ Conference 2023 Writing Contest. Jen recently received an Ohio Arts Council grant to complete a collection of essays about work. Connect with her at jenknox.com and Here We Are.
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