Join us for another session of Nancy Kline’s popular Fiction & Personal Narrative workshop! This is an 8-week writing workshop meeting Thursdays from 5 – 7pm April 11 through May 30th and structured around the elements of narrative (that is, storytelling). Each week, the workshop’s ten participants share with their fellow writers a 2-page written assignment in which they have focused on a specific aspect of storytelling—character, plot, setting, narrative voice, etcetera. Classic short stories by Faulkner, Joyce, Flannery O’Connor and others, which exemplify these aspects of narrative, are suggested each week by the workshop leader, who also offers weekly writing prompts. Our final session is devoted to revision and effectively reading our work aloud, in preparation for the public reading at the Library on Saturday June 1st at 5pm, under the auspices of the Woodstock Library Forum, of stories written in the course of the workshop.
Registration is required and attendance is limited to 10 participants. Sign-up at the circulation desk, by calling 845-679-2213, or by emailing info@woodstock.org First-time and many-time participants are welcome (please indicate which you are, on the sign-up sheet), though preference will be given to first-timers. We ask that you commit to all 8 sessions of the workshop (barring life’s contingencies).
Nancy Kline has taught at Harvard, UCLA, the University of Massachusetts-Boston, Wellesley, and Barnard, where she was Founding Director of the Writing Program. She now teaches for the Bard Prison Initiative. Her stories, memoirs, essays, translations, and reviews have appeared widely, most recently in “Persimmon Tree,” “Asymptote,” and “Proem.” She has published nine books (including a novel (The Faithful); a critical study of the poetry of Rene Char (Lightning); an annotated translation of Claudine Herrmann’s feminist monograph, Les Voleuses de langue (The Tongue Snatchers); and a collection of essays on the teaching of writing (How Writers Teach Writing, as editor and contributor). She has been conducting creative writing workshops at the Woodstock Library since 2010.
This event is funded in part by Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Additional funding is provided by the Friends of the Woodstock Library.