The Piper Writers Studio Presents Visiting Faculty John Calderazzo
Date(s): Friday, March 23, 2018, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. and Saturday, March 24, 2018, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Location: Piper Writers House, 450 E Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ 85287
Type(s): Generative Workshop, Workshop
Genre and Form(s): Creative Nonfiction, Essays, Fiction
Individual Course Cost: $119 Regular, $99 Student
Two-Course Bundle: $210 Regular, $175 Student
About the Classes
Teacher, author, and freelance writer John Calderazzo joins the Piper Writers Studio from Fort Collins, Colorado to provide two unique nonfiction workshops and help Valley writers develop their skills. Register for each course independently or for both courses as the Creative Nonfiction Writers Intensive Bundle to save.
Finding the Story You Need to Write
Friday, March 23, 2018, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Like bombs, stories can lie deep inside us, waiting with their incredible power. Other, quieter stories may need just some surface prying to emerge. But how do you find the ones you really want and need to explore? This hands-on workshop, full of writing prompts, will show you how.
Stories float all around us, all of the time, and it's our responsibility and pleasure to find the ones that speak most powerfully to us and to write them down in the best form possible. Join me as we explore mementos, memories that can make the past speak to the present and the future, and other deep-down emotions waiting to be forged into great nonfiction or fiction. We'll also search for deeply personal story connections that, with the right kind of searching, can be found in the stories of others.
Using the Secrets of Fiction to Write Nonfiction
Saturday, March 24, 2018, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
I was driving in the country with a neighbor-friend and her seven-year-old son, Jake, when he spotted some aluminum cans by the side of the road that he wanted to recycle. So I pulled over, and his mom walked back a ways to retrieve them. The second she got out of the car, Jake leaned forward from the back seat and said, "Tell me a story."
We are all story-telling animals, and our desire to hear a good tale, well told, is universal; this goes as much for nonfiction as for fiction. I wrote short stories and got an MFA in fiction before I started freelancing full time for magazines and industries, then later writing literary books and personal essays. In this workshop, I'll share (and we'll practice) using compelling techniques I've gleaned from novels and short stories to use in essays and literary journalism, including ethical and exciting ways to make things up in nonfiction.
