Saturday, December 7 Brings Two Craft Based Offerings
The Language of Poetry with Deborah Brown
Writing your Character’s Inner Narrative with Robbi D’Allesandro
We are in the season of hustling and bustling and you may need a reprieve. Register for one or both of the NHWP workshops taking place on Saturday, Dec. 7th.
First, from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM, we offer you the opportunity to hone your poetry skills. This is a continuation of a workshop that began in November. NOTE: You will still benefit from this workshop if you did not attend the previous section. You will look at some contemporary poems and then, we hope, turn to your own work for discussion.
If you decide to submit a poem for critique, make sure the poem is one you are interested in working on and revising. In critique, we’ll focus on one or two aspects, diction and image, or metaphor, or unity—writer’s choice, not so much “criticizing” as analyzing what has occurred on the page. Register here.
Later, from 1:30 to 4:30 PM, learn to enhance your characters and their stories through an exploration of mastering their inner narrative – their thoughts put on paper. Your characters’ inner monologue is the essence of fiction. Interesting internal narrative, when appropriately balanced with action and dialogue, is the life’s blood of any story.
We have just the workshop to help you master this difficult technique. Whether you are writing a novel or one act play, presenter Robbi D’Allesandro will share insights and techniques that will be helpful to you. In her workshop, you will learn varied ways to tap into the critical psyche of your characters and through these processes, deepen the overall meaning of your work. Register here.
About the Presenters
Deborah Brown’s recent book, The Human Half was published by BOA Editions in April, 2019. Her first book “Walking the Dog’s Shadow,” was a winner of the A. J. Poulin Jr. Award from BOA Editions and of a New Hampshire Literary Award for Outstanding Book of Poetry. The title poem of the collection was awarded a Pushcart Prize. She edited, with Maxine Kumin and Annie Finch, Lofty Dogmas: Poets on Poetics (Univ. of Arkansas Press). With Richard Jackson and Susan Thomas, she translated the poems in Last Voyage: Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli (Red Hen Press). She lives in Warner, NH.
Robbi D’Allesandro received her MFA from Lesley University in Writing for Stage and Screen (2010), and her MS in Personality and Social Psychology from Northeastern University (2002). She won the 2011 Kennedy Center Paula Vogel National Playwrights Award for her full-length play Broken Prayer and was nominated for the Christopher Brian Wolk Excellence in Playwriting Award for the same work. Robbi attended the O’Neill Playwrights Conference as a Visiting Fellow in 2012, and the Kennedy Center Summer Writer’s Intensive in 2011. Her short play Living…Again recently won SLAM Boston 2014. She won Best Original Sitcom in the New York Screenplay Competition for her television sitcom Outliers. Robbi has been contracted for the adaptation of Ron Drez’ Twenty-Five Yards of War: The Extraordinary Courage of Ordinary Men for television and represented by Gersh for the adaptation of Dean Morrissey’s Ship of Dreams, The Monster Trap, and The Great Kettles for screen.
WHERE: The workshops will be held at The Ford House on the campus of SNHU (2500 North River Road, Manchester, NH 03106 — Directions and parking info here)
WHEN: Saturday, December 7, 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM; and/or 1:30 to 4:30 PM
COST: Each workshop is $65 for NHWP members or $85 for nonmembers and is limited to 12 students. Register now to ensure your spot in the class.
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