Thursday, 2 February 2012 from 16:00 until 19:00
Institut für Anglistik & Amerikanistik, University of Vienna, Seminarraum 5, 1st floor, AAKH Hof 8.3, Spitalgasse 2-4 . . . map
“Why Time Matters” – an investigation of why time is the determining element in any form of creative writing, and a presentation on how this element can be both infinite and manipulated to suit any need of any story, poem, essay, novel, or other writing project.
Friday, 3 February 2012 from 10:00 until 13:00
Institut für Anglistik & Amerikanistik, University of Vienna, Seminarraum 5, 1st floor, AAKH Hof 8.3, Spitalgasse 2-4 . . . map
“Embracing the Difficult: Writing Beyond What´s Comfortable” – an exploration of how to take your creative writing to the next level by writing outside your comfort zone and into new territories in voice, narrative structure, and what is sometimes called “plot”.
Places are limited. To register, please contact julia.lajta-novak@univie.ac.at
www.viennalit.at
Sunday, February 5th at 19:30pm
Cream Espai Creatiu, Psg. de la Pau 14 . . . map
“Writing the Novel Within You”
The saying goes that “everybody has at least one novel in them.” Come to this seminar and learn how to tap into and break out yours. Concrete strategies will help you realize your novelistic ambitions. There will also be a few words offered about how to get your books into print.
Monday, February 6th at 20:30
Hibernian Books, C/ Montseny 17 . . . map
“Location, Location, Location: How to Really Use Setting In Your Writing”
This seminar will help you mine all the potential of location in your creative writing so that it can actually seem like a character in your stories, novels, poetry, and nonfiction.
Tuesday, February 7th at 19:00
Librería Laie, C/ de Pau Claris 85 . . . map
“Embracing the Difficult: Writing Beyond What’s Comfortable”
This seminar will take you through six lines of risk to try in your own writing, will offer models for constructing your stories and poems across these lines of risk, and will provide prompts for writing beyond your comfort zones.
Wednesday, February 8th from 17:00 until 18:00
Shakespeare and Company Bookstore, 37 Rue Bûcherie . . . map
“Embracing the Difficult: Writing Beyond What’s Comfortable”
Thursday, February 9th from 19:00 until 20:30
American Book Center Treehouse, Voetboogstraat 11 . . . map
“Embracing the Difficult: Writing Beyond What’s Comfortable”
Fred Leebron, award-winning short story writer and author of three novels, co-author of a fiction writing textbook, and co-editor of Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology, will offer a series of free lectures on the craft of creative writing. The adaptation of his novel Six Figures was nominated for a Canadian ‘Oscar’ and premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He is the founding director of the new Pan-European Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing, based entirely in Europe, sponsored by Cedar Crest College and launching in June 2012.
