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TEACHERS AS WRITERS WORKSHOP – MULTIGENRE 2016-311

Course #2016-311
Saturdays Starting September 10 10:00 am–1:00 pm running 10 weeks skipping October 15
Cost: $45 Instructor: Leslie Contreras Schwartz
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Where

Inprint House
1520 W Main St
Houston, TX 77006 United States
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The novelist and poet Louise Erdrich wrote, “Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that . . . You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.” In this multi-genre class, students will be encouraged to write about experiences or imagined moments in which the speaker struggles, risks, and attempts to make sense of everyday challenges.


The class will study craft issues in a selection of stories, essays, and poems—including from Toni Morrison, Nick Flynn, Li-Young Lee, and Anna Akhmatova—that demonstrate mastery of tension, imagery, figurative language, structure, and varying authorial distance. We will study how authors use these techniques to connect to the reader and make meaning out of an experience. In this supportive workshop, writing prompts aimed at technique will help students experiment, take risks, and gain confidence in their own writing.


About the instructor

LESLIE CONTRERAS SCHWARTZ holds an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College and a BA in English from Rice University, where she won the Academy of American Poets’ College & University Prize in 2001. Her collection of poems, Fuego, was published by Saint Julian Press in March 2016. Her poetry has appeared in Pebble Lake Review, Southern Women’s Review, Storyscape Literary Journal, Improbable Worlds: An Anthology of Texas and Louisiana Poets by Mutabilis Press, and is forthcoming in Tinderbox Literary Journal and Glass: A Journal of Poetry. Her personal essays have appeared in the Huffington Post, Houston Chronicle, The Toast, Ozy, and Dame Magazine.

By registering for an Inprint Writers Workshop you are agreeing to Inprint’s registration policies. Remember to sign up for the waiting list if the workshop you would like to take is full. To see the full Fall 2016 workshop schedule click here.

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