This discussion is part of the 2021 Winter Read of Octavia E. Butler’s 1979 novel Kindred.
The Stanley Community Library will be hosting a discussion of Kindred on February 23, and all are welcome to join.
RSVP to Jane at stanley.id.library@gmail.com.
This discussion is part of the 2021 Winter Read of Octavia E. Butler’s 1979 novel Kindred.
The Hailey Public Library will be hosting a discussion of Kindred on February 25, and all are welcome to join.
RSVP to kristin.fletcher@haileypubliclibrary.org
Have you ever wanted to try writing essays for newspapers or magazines?
In this two-part class led by Hemingway Writer-In-Residence Mary Pauline Lowry, we’ll read and discuss a variety of creative nonfiction essay columns that appear regularly in major publications (examples include: “Modern Love” from The New York Times, “Long Story Short” from O Magazine, and “Letter of Recommendation” from The New York Times Magazine). We’ll discuss tone, style, arc, and subject matter. During the first class, students will also complete in-class creative nonfiction writing exercises.
For homework, each student will select their essay topic and target publication, read additional essays, and begin drafting. (Essays can be written to be submitted for publication, or just for fun and practice.) During the second class we’ll discuss our process and how to overcome challenges, as well as strategies for revision and submission.
Workshop Dates:
Sunday, October 11 from 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Sunday, October 18 from 2:00-4:00 p.m.
*This two-part workshop will be held in person with social distancing, and face masks will be required.*
*Registration will be limited to allow for appropriate distancing.* We will hold the workshop outdoors if weather permits.
To register, email mwilliams@comlib.org.
Mary Pauline Lowry is the author of the novels The Roxy Letters and Wildfire. She’s a regular contributor to O Magazine. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Millions, and other publications.
A weekly group for memoir and autobiography writing, led by Tony Tekaroniake Evans.
The workshops will be fashioned around the mythologist Joseph Campbell’s idea of the “Hero’s Journey.” We will also identify Jungian archetypes in our life stories.
Wednesdays, October 14 – November 18 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. (MST) on Zoom.
Registration is required. REGISTER HERE.
The Creative Writing Workshop provides a supportive atmosphere where local writers can share their work. Please bring your favorite books, stories and poems, and samples of your works-in-progress. Writing topics, styles and techniques will be explored weekly.
Tony Tekaroniake Evans is an award-winning journalist and columnist at the Idaho Mountain Express newspaper in Ketchum who has led writing workshops in the Wood River Valley since 2004. He is also a memoir editor and the author of two books of nonfiction: Teaching Native Pride: Upward Bound and the Legacy of Isabel Bond (WSU Press 2020) and A History of Indians in the Sun Valley Area (Blaine County Historical Museum 2016). His forthcoming book, Memory and Destiny, the Life of Glenn Janss, releases in 2021.
Join us every other Tuesday, January 5 through May 25, for a drop-in virtual writing workshop, led by Martha Williams, the Library’s programs and education manager.
Each workshop begins with a warm-up prompt, then moves into a prompt that we will work with for the remainder of the hour and a half. These free-form writing exercises are designed for writers of all genres–poetry, fiction, short fiction, nonfiction, and memoir. Those who can only join for the first hour are welcome to join!
After each exercise we’ll share, discuss, and give each other feedback before moving onto another prompt or diving deeper into what we’ve created. We will also encourage a writing practice and share details of a writerly life together.
Register on Zoom for one or all workshops.
Would you like to sit down with a published author and ask them all your burning questions about writing and getting published? The book publishing industry is competitive and can be a mystery to many. Connecting with someone who has experienced the process and can support your journey is invaluable. Throughout September and October, Alli Frank, co-author of the new novel Tiny Imperfections, will be sitting down with local writers to answer all your questions.
These 45-minute, one-on-one meetings will be held outside the Library (with social distancing) on the following dates. There will be two sessions each afternoon from 1:00-1:45 p.m. and 1:45-2:30 p.m.:
Friday, September 11
Friday, September 18
Friday, September 25
Friday, October 2
Friday, October 9
Friday, October 16 – *NEW*
Friday, October 23 – *NEW*
Email mwilliams@comlib.org to sign up.
Alli Frank is an author dividing her time between Seattle and Sun Valley. A graduate of Cornell and Stanford Universities, she has been a teacher, curriculum leader, coach, college counselor, assistant head, and private school co-founder. Alli is the co-author with Asha Youmans of Tiny Imperfections, published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons/Penguin Random House in May 2020 and optioned for television/film rights by a major streaming service. She and Asha are currently working on their second book.
