Creative Writing Master Classes: Spring 2022

251 West Iowa Avenue,Iowa City IA 52242

02 April, 2022

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CREATIVE WRITING MASTER CLASSES Free, One-Shot, 2-Hour Classes Open to Everyone! Presented by: The UI Nonfiction Writing Program CREATIVE WRITING MASTER CLASSESFree, One-Shot, 2-Hour Classes Open to Everyone! Presented by: The Nonfiction Writing Program Reserve your spot! Register for classes at https://nwpmasterclassesspring2022.eventbrite.com *** Morning Sessions (9:30-11:30am)1.The Archive of You – Writing Through CollectingEPB 469 We all collect things, even if we don’t know we do. Whether it’s screenshots of memes, bookmarked tabs to read later, or drafts in a notes app, we gather and store information every day. In this 2-hour Master Class, you will imagine your personal collections as a living archive; an archive of you. Together, we will generate ideas for a personal essay about your collection. If you’ve ever gotten deep into an internet conspiracy or wondered what archeologists would say about your life in the future, this is the class for you! INSTRUCTOR: Erel Michaelis (they/them) is a 2-year MFA student in the Nonfiction Writing Program. They currently have 87 unopened tabs on their laptop, which they will definitely read one day. 2. Devil in the Details: The Art of the SensesEPB 403 A writer might start with “We went to the movies on our first date.” adding more detail might give us “We saw Return of the Jedi on our first date.” but how does a writer make a reader feel what it was like to be there? How do we go from “Our first date was a movie” to “It was raining the night we saw Return of the Jedi, our first date, the cold air burned my lungs, you wrapped your arm around me when you noticed the goosebumps on my bare shoulders and though we were so new, the warm smell of your skin gave me no desire to pull away.” This course highlights basic elements of narrative scene with an emphasis on using specific sensory and other specific details to make writing come to life. Writers who take this course will leave with at least one page of writing and a handful of tools for more powerful scene writing. INSTRUCTOR: Asha Galindo received the nickname “Miss Details” from her mom for being insufferably observant. Nonetheless, she has formed this into an identity and career. She is a 2nd year MFA student in the Nonfiction Writing Program. Afternoon Session (12:30-2:30pm)Two Heads are Better Than One: Collaborative Creative Writing with StrangersEPB 403 Perhaps you’ve gotten to the page and not known where to start; you have nothing but your strengths and weaknesses. Writing doesn’t have to happen alone, (and authorship is rarely ever solitary, when we consider the input of early readers, editors, and everyone else along the writing process). Multiple authorship can be more than editing, and a full-force collaboration of writing minds is a mode we can choose. In this course, you will learn to respond to your own impulses and the impulses of the writers in the room with you, gaining a skill and a perspective on your work in collaboration that will serve you in all of the writing to come — in company or otherwise. INSTRUCTORS: Andy Tan-Delli Cicchi and Jessie Kraemer are third years in the Nonfiction Writing Program who wrote this sentence together. *** Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa–sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact Corey Campbell in advance at [email protected].