Indy Reads Writing Series

1066 Virginia Avenue,Indianapolis IN 46203

22 January, 2023

Description

Creating stories from Art Sunday January 15th @ 2:00PM Ages 10+ (children 13 and under are required to have parental supervision) Learn about the classic form of ekphrasis-- a vivid retelling of a work of art-- to contemporary art including visual art, music, movies and more. In this hands-on writing workshop, attendees will learn about the tradition of writing about art and then use those newfound skills to create their own story or poem that references a piece of artwork. This event is family-friendly, beginner-friendly (however, we’re pretty sure experienced writers would have fun with this too!), and open to the public. Art From Anything: Blackout Poetry Sunday January 22nd @ 2:00PM Ages 10+ (children 13 and under are required to have parental supervision) If you look closely enough, you can find art in anything! In this workshop we’ll be focusing on a form of poetry known as Blackout Poetry, which is the art of using text from newspaper, magazine, the back of a cereal box, etc., to make a unique poem from something that already exists. In this workshop, attendees will learn about blackout poetry and then use those newfound skills to create blackout poetry of their own. This event is family-friendly, beginner-friendly (however, we’re pretty sure experienced writers would have fun with this too!), and open to the public. Paint & Write Sunday January 29th @ 2:00PM Ages 10+ (children 13 and under are required to have parental supervision) For this workshop, we’ll discuss ekphrasis, or poems and stories that reference art, but this time with a twist! Attendees will spend the first half of the workshop creating artwork of their very own. After their masterpieces are complete, there will be an art swap where attendees write a story or poem about their peer’s artwork. This event is family-friendly, beginner-friendly (however, we’re pretty sure experienced writers would have fun with this too!), and open to the public. Téa Franco is a fiction writer based in Indianapolis. She received an MFA in fiction writing and has literary works published in Barrelhouse Magazine, Barren Magazine, Foglifter press, and others. She has served as a fiction editor at Mid-American Review and Okay Donkey Magazine. Téa is a co-editor of the Taylor Swift- inspired anthology, Kiss Your Darlings. Samantha Fain is a writer from Indiana. Her chapbooks Coughing Up Planets and sad horse music debuted in 2021. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Indianapolis Review, Peach Mag, A Flame Called Indiana: An Anthology of Contemporary Hoosier Writing, and others. She co-edited Kiss Your Darlings: A Taylor Swift Anthology. She tweets at @smnthfn. Find her at samanthafain.com.