Join us for this free event:
Poetry and Prose for Peace. Workshop #2: Poetry
Saturday, April 6
Workshop: 2PM - 5PM
Public Performance: 6PM - 8PM
Ages 16+
FREE
Fellowship Hall GUCC
Whether a writer lives in a small cabin in Greensboro, Vermont and writes about the natural world or lives on Long Island, New York and writes about their suburban experience, we can create place as something more than merely a backdrop for action. Instead, writers can transform place into something that serves as another character, one important enough to influence characters, affecting characters’ needs and desires.
We will close the day writing with a performance, inviting friends and neighbors to sit and listen to our stories. Any who may be inspired are invited to share their own stories, too.
You can do this workshop twice! Sean Prentiss in his poetry writing workshop on April 6, and then, Sean and Peter Gould working together, on April 20.
Sean Prentiss is the award winning author of Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave, which won the National Outdoor Book Award, the Utah Book Award for Nonfiction, and the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award. Finding Abbey was a finalist for the Vermont and Colorado Book Awards.
He is also the author of Crosscut: Poems, a memoir-in-poems about his time as a trail builder in the Pacific Northwest.
Sean is the co-editor of two anthologies on the craft of creative nonfiction. They are The Science of Story: The Brain Behind Creative Nonfiction and The Far Edges of the Fourth Genre.
He is the co-author of two textbooks. They are Environmental and Nature Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology and Advanced Creative Nonfiction: A Writer's Guide and Anthology.
He is the series co-editor for Bloomsbury's Writers' Guide and Anthology textbook series, which has many books in print.
Sean serves as Backcountry Magazine's poet laureate.
