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SUMMARY:Using Invented and Foreign Languages as Tools for World Building: A Fiction Workshop with Rita Bullwinkel
DESCRIPTION:A dynamic Fiction Workshop facilitated by author\, Rita Bullwinkel. This workshop will be held every Saturday 10 AM – 12 PM from Mar 6 – Apr 10.\n\nCLA WRITERS WORKSHOPS are open to individuals of all backgrounds–including those who are exploring creative writing for the first time–as well as aspiring writers who want to prepare their work for publication. Workshops are modeled on graduate-level creative writing courses\, and may include short in-class writing assignments to jumpstart the writing process\, as well as work outside of class that will entail reading the work of select published writers\, critiquing the work of other workshop participants\, and writing a piece to be workshopped by the class. Each participant will receive written comments from the instructor. Workshops are led by accomplished local authors\, including students and alumni of the San Jose State University Creative Writing Program.\nTuition $250 // Eventbrite\n\nCOURSE DESCRIPTION:\nOne of the big things that makes us\, as readers of fiction\, read on into a book is mystery and\, very often\, that mystery comes in the form of a word or idea we don’t yet understand. As a writer\, one way to rope your readers in is to deliberately use words that you know your audience might not understand\, and then\, through context\, teach your readers the meaning of those words. This is a tool used frequently in fantasy as well as literary writing. In this workshop we will explore several examples of this invaluable literary tool and learn how we can best deploy this strategy in our own fiction.\nRita Bullwinkel is the author of the story collection Belly Up\, which won the 2018 Believer Book Award. Bullwinkel’s writing has been published in Tin House\, The White Review\, Conjunctions\, BOMB\, Vice\, NOON\, and Guernica. She is a recipient of grants and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony\, Brown University\, Vanderbilt University\, Hawthornden Castle\, and The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Both her fiction and translation have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She is an Editor at Large for McSweeney’s and a Contributing Editor for NOON. She lives in San Francisco and teaches at the California College of the Arts.
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SUMMARY:Evening Literary Seminar: The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
DESCRIPTION:The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy \nThis lush\, engaging novel invites readers in to the fascinating lives of one Indian family. The story toggles between the single day in 1969 when the entire family was upended by the mysterious event that keeps you madly turning pages—and 1993\, when the main characters\, fraternal twins\, are reunited. \n Roy won huge American acclaim\, a Booker Prize and obscenity charges—always a good sign!— with this debut in 1997. Last year it was named one of the BBC’s 100 Most Influential Novels. Roy’s work is immersive and wide-in-scope\, kind of like the very best John Irving crossed with Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Express. \n Join Kimberly for an entertaining and instructive look at the book’s remarkable structure\, characters\, themes and haunting\, gorgeous sense of place.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/evening-literary-seminar-the-god-of-small-things-by-arundhati-roy/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Kim Addonizio and Bob Hicok
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, March 22nd at 6pm PT when Kim Addonizio joins us to discuss her latest collection\, Now We’re Getting Somewhere\, with Bob Hicock on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86298421877\n\nAbout Now We’re Getting Somewhere\nA dark\, no-holds-barred\, and often hilarious collection from a prize-winning poet\, veering between the poles of self and world.\n\nKim Addonizio’s sharp and irreverent eighth volume\, Now We’re Getting Somewhere\, is an essential companion to your practice of the Finnish art of kalsarikännit—drinking at home\, alone in your underwear\, with no intention of going out. Imbued with the poet’s characteristic precision and passion\, the collection charts a hazardous course through heartache\, climate change\, dental work\, Outlander\, semiotics\, and more.\nCombatting existential gloom with a wicked\, seductive energy\, Addonizio investigates desire\, loss\, and the madness of contemporary life. She calls out to Walt Whitman and John Keats\, echoes Dorothy Parker\, and finds sisterhood with Virginia Woolf.\n\nSometimes confessional\, sometimes philosophical\, these poems weave from desolation to drollery and clamor with raucous imagery: an insect in high heels\, a wolf at an uncomfortable party\, a glowing and self-serious guitar.\n\nA poet whose “voice lifts from the page\, alive and biting” (Sky Sanchez\, San Francisco Book Review)\, Addonizio reminds her reader\, “if you think nothing & / no one can / listen I love you joy is coming.”\n\nAbout Kim Addonizio\nKim Addonizio is the author of eight poetry collections\, two novels\, two story collections\, and two books on writing poetry: The Poet’s Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius. Her poetry collection Tell Me was a finalist for the National Book Award\, and her 2016 collection\, Mortal Trash\, won the Paterson Poetry Prize. Addonizio’s awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation\, among other honors. She lives in Oakland\, California.
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CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Kim Addonizio and Bob Hicok
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON MONDAY\, MARCH 22 AT 6PM PT WHEN KIM ADDONIZIO JOINS US TO DISCUSS HER LATEST COLLECTION\, NOW WE’RE GETTING SOMEWHERE\, WITH BOB HICOK ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86298421877\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,86298421877#  or +13462487799\,\,86298421877#\nWebinar ID: 862 9842 1877\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbLep4IiCz \nAbout Now We’re Getting Somewhere \nA dark\, no-holds-barred\, and often hilarious collection from a prize-winning poet\, veering between the poles of self and world. \nKim Addonizio’s sharp and irreverent eighth volume\, Now We’re Getting Somewhere\, is an essential companion to your practice of the Finnish art of kalsarikännit—drinking at home\, alone in your underwear\, with no intention of going out. Imbued with the poet’s characteristic precision and passion\, the collection charts a hazardous course through heartache\, climate change\, dental work\, Outlander\, semiotics\, and more. \nCombatting existential gloom with a wicked\, seductive energy\, Addonizio investigates desire\, loss\, and the madness of contemporary life. She calls out to Walt Whitman and John Keats\, echoes Dorothy Parker\, and finds sisterhood with Virginia Woolf. \nSometimes confessional\, sometimes philosophical\, these poems weave from desolation to drollery and clamor with raucous imagery: an insect in high heels\, a wolf at an uncomfortable party\, a glowing and self-serious guitar. \nA poet whose “voice lifts from the page\, alive and biting” (Sky Sanchez\, San Francisco Book Review)\, Addonizio reminds her reader\, “if you think nothing & / no one can / listen I love you joy is coming.” \nAbout Kim Addonizio \nKim Addonizio is the author of eight poetry collections\, two novels\, two story collections\, and two books on writing poetry: The Poet’s Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius. Her poetry collection Tell Me was a finalist for the National Book Award\, and her 2016 collection\, Mortal Trash\, won the Paterson Poetry Prize. Addonizio’s awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation\, among other honors. She lives in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-kim-addonizio-and-bob-hicok/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Iain S. Thomas / The Truth of You: Poetry about Love\, Life\, Joy\, and Sadness
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host Iain S. Thomas again for his new book The Truth of You: Poetry About Love\, Life\, Joy\, and Sadness. He’ll be joined by Amanda Lovelace\, author of the celebrated series Women Are Some Kind of Magic and You Are Your Own Fairy Tale. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order The Truth of You here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nAbout the book\nThis is the truth of you. \nBecause you are all I see. \nBecause you are all I breathe. \nBecause when I cannot find you\, I am lost. \nBecause when I’m with you\, I am found. \nBecause you have the fire of the universe in you\, and sometimes you forget. \nSo this book is here to remind you. \nDear You\, \nI want you to know that I see you. \nI want you to know that even if no one else does\, even if you are a ghost in this bookshop\, or just the static floating across the screen of your computer\, wherever you’re reading this\, I see you. \nI see you in the dark and I see you in the grey. I see you as a story\, as words I have spoken or may yet speak. Maybe only in a memory or a dream. \nI see your hands and your arms and your body and your legs and your face and I see what you have been and what you will be. I see you and in looking at you\, I want you to know that whoever you’ve had to be to survive all this\, I will not look away. \nI want you to know that there’s a space inside this book for you. \nSo if you have the time and the inclination\, you can sit here with me\, just for a while. \nAnd perhaps between us\, we can see everything that matters. \n-pleasefindthis \nAbout the authors\nIain S. Thomas is a writer and new media artist. He is the author of several books including Every Word You Cannot Say and the internationally bestselling I Wrote This For You series. When he’s not writing\, drawing or working\, he spends time with his family in the outdoors in Cape Town\, South Africa. \namanda lovelace is the author of several bestselling poetry titles\, including her celebrated “women are some kind of magic” trilogy as well as her new “you are your own fairy tale” series. she is also the co-creator of the believe in your own magic oracle deck. when she isn’t reading\, writing\, or drinking a much-needed cup of coffee\, you can find her casting spells from her home in a (very) small town on the jersey shore\, where she resides with her poet-spouse & their three cats. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
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