Fantastic Writer's Salon

What can we, as writers, learn from a fanciful children’s movie?

At the height of Potter Mania, 6 hr after Deathly Hallows was published, it sold 5000 books a sec. Deathly Hallows sold more books in the first day than any other author that YEAR.

Fantastic Beasts, Rowling’s first foray into screenplay writing, grossed $814 million worldwide. The film was nominated for 5 BAFTAs (British equivalent of an Academy Award), including Best British Film, winning Best Production Design. In this country the movie took two Academy Awards,winning Best Costume Design, and becoming the first Wizarding World film to win an Academy Award.

Clearly, J. K. Rowling resonates with a large audience of people. I believe that's because she is one of the most complex and layered writers of our time. I mean to convince you today that the more you dig into her work, the deeper the meaning, the more complex and interesting her work becomes.

Join us on Sunday, November 18 to watch the second installment in the Fantastic Beasts saga, Crimes of Grindelwald. We will hold a writer's salon at 2:30 pm at Nancy Brehm's house, 925 Sinagua Heights Dr. in Flagstaff.

I'll give a brief presentation about the peculiarities of Rowling's writing and things to consider while watching the movie. I'll cover how Rowling hooks you with:

• Genre Bending Worldbuilding
• Confirming your Postmodern Beliefs
• Masterful Narrative Slow Release.

Rowling has been called the most important Christian writer since C. S. Lewis. I'll talk about how she delivers meaning:

• Meaningful Resonance
• Ring Composition
• Subversion of stories we share in common
• Characters and elements that symbolize larger concepts
• Literary Alchemy
• Dante's Divine Comedy

At 4 or 4:30 pm we will watch the movie together.

After the movie we'll meet back at Nancy's house for BBQ sandwiches, while we discuss the film.

Please RSVP at authorCAlexSmith@gmail.com if you think you're coming so we can get an approximate head count. You can let us know right up to and including Sunday the 18th.

A Path to Creativity Workshop with Sandra Marinella

Your Story Matters

Ignite you passion for writing down the self in ways that will tap into your personal creativity. This 5 hour workshop will help you find the stories you need to tell while giving you the chance to explore a path to your personal creativity. There will be opportunities to share your writing in a nurturing environment. This workshop will engage writers of all levels, novice to advanced.

After the workshop there will be a book signing and Meet and Greet at Oakwood Restaurant.

Sandra Marinella is an award-winning writing instructor and author of The Story You Need to Tell, an inspirational guide to transformational storytelling. The book is the result of Marinella’s pioneering work with veterans and cancer patients, her years of teaching writing, and her research into its profound healing properties. Riveting true stories illustrate Marinella’s methods for understanding, telling, and editing personal stories in ways that foster resilience and renewal. She also shares her own experience of using journaling and expressive writing to navigate challenges including breast cancer and postpartum depression. Each of the techniques, prompts, and exercises she presents helps us “to unravel the knot inside and to make sense of loss.

Profits from her work support cancer research. 

Find out more at www.storyyoutell.com.

Book Signing

Sandra Marinella will be signing her book, The Story You Need to Tell.
There will be gifts & treats & a talk by the author.

Saturday, August 11
5:30 – 7:30pm
Bright Side Bookshop
18 N San Francisco St, Flagstaff, AZ 86001

Workshop

Saturday, Oct 13th, 2018

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Continental Country Club

Continental Rm., 2nd Floor

2380 N. Oakmont Drive, Flagstaff, AZ 86004

Price $55

Lunch on you own at Oakwood Restaurant

Register with Nancy Brehm:
nbrehm@aol.com

928-527-3188

Or Send Registration Form and Check to:

925 N. Sinaqua Hts. Dr.

Flagstaff, AZ 86004

Sponsored by the Flagstaff Writers Connection

Virginia G Piper Center Summer and Fall Courses

NEW CREATIVE WRITING CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS (THE PIPER WRITERS STUDIO | SUMMER AND FALL 2018)

The Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at ASU is proud to announce new creative writing classes and workshops in fiction, creative nonfiction, memoir, poetry, screenwriting, flash, hybrid forms, and more for Summer and Fall 2018:

Start Date	Class & Instructor
July 10	From Notes to Narrative: Building Stories from Our Daily Lives with Warren Glynn
Aug 4	Experimental Games of Found Writing: A Workshop with Justin Noga
Aug 4	Jump Start. Reset. Recharge. Fiction Writing Intensive with James Sallis
Sep 4	Writing from Dreams: A Multi-Genre Workshop with Kelly Lydick
Sep 8	Between Inventory and Invention: A List-Poem Workshop with Carolina Ebeid
Sep 10	In a Flash: An Exploration of Flash Fiction for Curious Readers and Working Writers with Patrick Michael Finn
Sep 15	Where the Devil Is: The Craft of Specific Detail with Tara Ison
Sep 24	Advanced Fiction Workshop with James Sallis
Sep 29	A Deeper Image: A Poetry Workshop with Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Oct 2	The Body Electric, Memoir-Style with Andrea Avery
Oct 4	The Big Picture: Writing Your First Screenplay with Beverly Smith-Dawson
Oct 20	Performance Narrative: Literary Wordplay Breaks into Stageplay with Walonda Williams
Oct 27	At Work in Sound and Vision: A Poetry Workshop with Dan Beachy-Quick
Nov 16	Two Workshops: Poetry of Witness, Poetry as Trace and Poetry of the Body with Andrea Scarpino

All classes take place at the Piper Writers House (450 E Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ 85281). Hours and costs vary. Discounts are available for students and ASU affiliates. To learn more and register, you can download a flier, find classes on facebook, visit our website at http://piper.asu.edu/classes.

Writing Workshop: Characterization and Dialogue by Susan Pohlman

Writing Workshop

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Watch for our next workshops in Oct.

Saturday, August 25 2018

10:00 am-4:00pm

Continental Country Club

Continental Room

Second Floor

2380 N. Oakmont, Flagstaff

Cost $55

Characterization and Dialogue

What makes a character jump off the page and keep an agent, publisher or reader hooked all the way until the end of the book? How does a writer create believable, compelling, and effective dialogue?

Understanding characterization and dialogue is crucial to effective storytelling. Come enjoy a day of camaraderie and craft as we unlock the secrets of great writing.

In this cross-genre hands-on workshop we will explore techniques for creating characters that your readers or audience won't soon forget.

Susan Pohlman

Facilitator Susan Pohlman, author, editor, and ASU writing instructor, is the founder of The Phoenix Writers Network. Her memoir, Halfway to Each Other, has won numerous awards. Her essays have been published in a variety of publications.

www.susanpohlman.com

Register Today!