Writing Workshops
From Observation to Inspiration
Nature Writing with CMarie Fuhrman
Saturday, April 26, 12-1pm
Embrace and share the essence of Roscoe's natural beauty in a flash! This one-hour workshop guides you in crafting a vivid micro-essay inspired by the world around us. Learn to distill your observations into potent language, focusing on sensory detail and concise storytelling. Leave with a finished flash nonfiction piece and the skills to write more.
CMarie Fuhrman is a poet, writer, and teacher. Her work has appeared in Terrain.org, Emergence Magazine, Alta Magazine, Northwest Review, Ploughshares, and many others. She is the author of the poetry chapbook Camped Beneath the Dam, and co-editor of Native Voices: Indigenous Poetry, Craft, and Conversations, and the award-winning anthology Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, and Poetry (winner of the PNBA and several other awards). Her forthcoming book, Salmon Weather: Writing from the Land of No Return, is due out in 2025. CMarie is an award winning columnist for the Inlander and the voice of the NPR podcast, Terra Firma. Fuhrman directs the Elk River Writers Workshop and serves as the Associate Director for Western Colorado University's Graduate Program in Creative Writing where she teaches poetry and nature writing. She is a former Idaho Writer in Residence and lives in the Salmon River Mountains of Idaho.
Suggested donation $25. Limited to 12 participants.
Landscape As Character
Craft with Mark Spragg
Sunday, June 8, 1-3pm
Characters become alive in the landscape in which we find them. Beyond setting, landscape can create a passage of time. The stillness of predawn, heat of midday, slanting evening light, the waxing or waning of the moon.
Descriptive choices of tempo, rhythm, and tone may mirror a character’s mood, or contrast starkly with their internal experience. The ground on which the characters walk can be symbolic of their journey; paved, overgrown, frost-stiffened, parched, or eroding. A character’s relationship with landscape can be defined by the sentences used: languid or abrupt, consonant- or vowel-driven.
The landscape itself becomes a character beyond metaphor or analogy, visceral, omnipresent and ever changing. Every decision creates a story-scape. Through example and discussion, we’ll explore some of these possibilities in workshop.
www.markspragg.com
Cost: $30/50/70, please pay what you can.