We’ll begin with our own experience of a song, a film, a painting and work to open up that singular moment.
We’ll use media to identify these instances of intimacy–with ourselves, with others, and with the larger world–through a lens of beauty and joy that doesn’t blur contradiction and ambivalence.
Though we’ll be working with memoir material, the tools and exercises offered will apply to all forms of writing.
This workshop will be limited to 10 participants.
All proceeds from You Must Remember This will go to Scuppernong Editions, a 501(c)3 small press in Greensboro, North Carolina.
One full scholarship is available. Click here to apply.
If a payment plan would make the workshop more feasible, let us know at scuppernongeditions@gmail.com.
Reserve your spot here. See Cautions below.
Steve Mitchell, a writer and journalist, has published in CRAFT Literary, Passengers Journal, entropy, december magazine, Southeast Review, among others. His novel, Cloud Diary, is published by C&R Press. His book of short stories is The Naming of Ghosts from Press 53 and a new collection, The Reason the Dress is Yellow, is forthcoming from Press 53. He is a winner of the Curt Johnson Prose Prize, the Lorian Hemingway International Short Story Prize, and the Alex Albright Creative Non-Fiction Prize. He has a deep belief in the primacy of doubt and an abiding conviction that great wisdom informs very bad movies. He’s co-owner of Scuppernong Books in Greensboro, NC, and General Editor at Scuppernong Editions. Find him at: www.clouddiary.org
“At its great and generous heart, Cloud Diary, then, is a turn of the new millennium love story…Mitchell creates a love story at once engaging and unnervingly immediate. What stuns here is the unforced elegance of Mitchell’s anatomy of love, his willingness to use language unironically to capture that mysterious kinetic.”
-Joseph Dewey, North Carolina Literary Review
“Steve Mitchell’s lyrical prose and beautifully crafted stories haunt the reader long after the final pages. His characters are so full and fascinating, and the urgency of their need to connect is so strong. Poignant, inspiring, and compelling, The Naming of Ghosts is the finest collection of stories out there.”
-Frances Badgett, Contrary Magazine
Cautions:
Because one emphasis of this workshop will be the presence and attention of the group,
no session will be recorded for later viewing.
Refund Policy: Full refund, minus 20%, up to 10 days before the first class.
No refunds once classes begin.
