Upcoming Workshops & events
Chautauqua Institute Summer Reading, Prose Workshop & Lecture
A one week experience with Author Zelda Lockhart
The Personal Essay is The Memoir Chapter
July 5th - 9th Monday to Friday
1:15 – 3:15 p.m. EST
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In this one week workshop participant will build a personal essay utilizing prompts from Lockhart's The Soul of the Full-Length Manuscript Turning Life's Wounds into a Work of Literary Fiction, Memoir, or Poetry. The essay will works great as a short work or a chapter in your memoir. Techniques for reflecting a full-length personal plot in the microcosmic plot of an essay along with techniques for jump starting your daily writing will make this workshop a lasting tool in your writing tool belt.
July 4, Sunday 3:30pm Reading
July 9, Friday 12:15 – 1PM, Prose writer -in-residence Brown Bag lecture
Also Visit Zelda Lockhart at:
Her Story Garden Studios
Her Story Garden Studios
Her Story Garden Studios
At Her Story Garden Studios Black women take writing workshops with Zelda and other facilitators on 3.5 acres of land where the organic garden and the writing workshops help participants to self-define, heal, and liberate..
LaVenson Press
Her Story Garden Studios
Her Story Garden Studios
LaVenson Press is devoted to helping women and girls of color take ownership of their stories through publication. To that end, LaVenson Press hosts publishing workshops, and publishes a yearly literary magazine and anthologies that highlights the poetry, memoir, and fiction of women and girls of color.