Imagery and Place : A Generative Fiction Workshop

Imagery and Place : A Generative Fiction Workshop 
(starting at $149)

How can a scene turn a story on its side, giving the reader a new angle through which to peer? How do sensations, sounds, moments, characters move around the physical world? What does this tell us about how a story feels?

Place is a powerful yet often subtle part of how stories are told. All of our stories are situated, informed, and contextual. Building out a richness in the imagery of place, the sensual, the physical world, can add to our writing, helping us create tone and convey feelings without having to tell readers directly: descriptive writing in this way can be a powerful way to, as the saying goes, show and not tell.

Looking at the work of writers like Lauren Groff, Ben Lerner, Deborah Eisenberg, Alice Monroe, Elena Ferrante, Etal Adnan, and Anne Carson (along with others) we’ll discuss how to create imagery of place that propels our stories forward. Participants should be ready to create and edit at least one piece of short fiction.

Cora Kircher (corakircher.com) is a poet, fiction writer, and visual artist from New York’s Hudson Valley, currently based in the East Bay. Cora’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Nat Brut., A CLEARING, BRUISER Magazine, Joy of the Pen, Tilted House Review, Canned Magazine, and elsewhere on the Internet.