Live Workshops:
All workshops are subject to participant's schedules unless noted. Email or call to register. Payment in full due before the start of the workshop unless otherwise arranged at the time of registration. Writers of all levels are welcome. To register for a workshop email katie@threestoriescom.com
The Muse in the Museum: ICA Inspired Writing
Ekphrasis writing is that which is inspired by, or somehow commenting on, other art forms usually visual art. Join instructor and author Katie Willis Morton at the Institute of Contemporary Art to explore the exhibits and transfigure the art in our vision into our own visionary writing. Participants can create in any genre. Ancillary readings on the subject and examples will be provided before the workshop which will meet Feb. 15th (at ICA) and 22nd (at Three Stories Studio), 10-12:30. We'll meet as a group, explore and write, and meet again to share and critique. Admission to ICA is included in fee, $75.
Travel Narrative:
"The voyage of discovery is not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes" Proust. Good travel writing allows those who've not gone to the place to see it, and those who have to see it anew. Also, through writing the travel writer herself comes to know fresh discoveries can be made even when you've left a place by crafting a story of it and what it meant to be there. We'll read examples, study techniques of the genre, write, and share, and maybe take a 'field-trip' or two. Meets for 1.5 hrs., four times for a month, dates and times TBD by particpants, limited to six $120
A Sense of Literary Nonfiction: A Writing Seminar
Good literary-nonfiction is writing about the “self” in a way that reflects the “other”. What makes the “I” of any piece interesting is the space that’s created around it for readers to enter the essay and figuratively find themselves while they literally find themselves engrossed. Details create space. This class uses the senses to leverage detail and analogy. Using innovative exercises, we’ll generate essays channeled through each of the senses. We’ll dissect works by renowned authors and discuss how they recruit the senses for an evocative starting point to reach out, draw a reader in, and then draw out the bigger story. We’ll read widely in the genre to bolster our knowledge and inspire us to create. We'll explore the basics of literary non-fiction to understand craft and guidelines for keeping it honest. Each week I’ll bring an object—an orange, a painting--and ask people to focus on it with one of the senses while considering the ideas it evokes. I’ll also bring handouts explaining the writing exercises, like the Hermit Crab, with examples. Each person will get a reading packet, and a suggestion list for further reading. Meets for 1.5 hrs., four times for a month, dates and times TBD by participants, limited to six, $120
Three Stories Facilitated Writing Groups:
Call or email if you want to join an on-going group to help inspire you and encourage you to meet the goals you set. Participants are asked to make a six-month commitment to meet twice a month for 1.5 hrs, limited to six, $360
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On-line Workshops:
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