Session 1: Thursday, June 15, 6:30 to 9:00 p.m.
Location: P&P's Secondary Classroom (5039 Connecticut Avenue, Unit #4)
Session 2: Tuesday, June 20, 1:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Location: P&P's Secondary Classroom (5039 Connecticut Avenue, Unit #4)
Explore your creative side in this session, one of a series of stand-alone classes with prompts designed to get your subconscious flowing. Through guided exercises, we’ll focus on writing about the passage of time as witnessed through our daily lives while also exploring how time relates to us in a larger, more spiritual sense. No writing experience necessary!
This is a great class for beginners and also for those fiction writers and/or memoirists with more experience who might be stuck in their current projects and are looking for a jolt of inspiration. Our goal is to have fun in a supportive, nurturing environment and to go home with several promising pieces to work on further. Please bring lots of paper and pen/pencil or a fully charged computer. Note: new exercises!
Book:
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, ed. by J.D. McClatchy
*Please note that this book will be used for all Right Brain Writing classes and that although it is a poetry book, you are not required to write poetry.
Leslie Pietrzyk is the author of two novels, Pears on a Willow Tree and A Year and a Day. This Angel on My Chest, her collection of linked short stories, won the 2015 Drue Heinz Literature Prize and was named one of the Kirkus Review’s best short story collections of 2015. Her short fiction and essays have been widely published andshe has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Pietrzyk is a member of the core fiction faculty at the Converse low-residency MFA program and teaches in the MA Program in Writing at Johns Hopkins University. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia. For more information: www.lesliepietrzyk.com
REFUND POLICY: Please note that we can issue class refunds up until seven (7) days before the first class session.
