Fall 2005 Writing Courses
EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY, with Maureen Ryan Griffin
- Saturday, September 10, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm (7 hours of instruction)
- Meets at the Network Library and Resource Center
- Bring food for a working lunch -- the workshop does not break for lunch
- Limit: 12 participants
- $85 Network members / $115 non-members
In this one-day workshop we will explore the use of visual images as a means to create powerful fiction, non-fiction, and/or poetry. We’ll look at ways successful writers have used images to inspire their works, including Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees. We'll experiment with different writing methods, using images as springboards. Participants are encouraged to bring images of their own they would like to work with, especially photographs. A wide variety of images will be provided as well. You’ll take home drafts of essays, memoir, poems, and/or fiction and facility with the playful and profound magic of using images to jumpstart your writing.
Maureen Ryan Griffin , an award-winning poet and
non-fiction writer, lives in Charlotte with her husband Richard and
their children, Amanda and Dan. She has been teaching courses in writing
and creativity for over ten years through Queens University and many
other locations and was selected for the 1995 and 2003 Blumenthal
Readers and Writers Series sponsored by the North Carolina Writer's
Network. The author of two collections of poetry, This Scatter of
Blossoms and When The Leaves Are In The Water, she offers writing
workshops and classes, as well as individual coaching and critiquing
through her business, WordPlay (www.maureenryangriffin.com).