A 5-Week In-Person CNF Workshop
Tuesdays, February 10 - March 10, 6-9 PM
This five-week workshop will introduce participants to the tradition of the writer as flaneur – an idler, a wanderer; and to a specific subset of the essay, the braided essay. The hope/goal is that the former will lead to the latter, after examining models, responding to exercises and prompts, practicing the art of idling, then drafting and workshopping with fellow writers.
Being a flaneur is the method; the braided essay is the product. The braided essay is a somewhat rare form, in which the winding together of disparate threads can have exciting and surprising consequences.
$275 Members/$475 Nonmembers
Michael Burke is Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing and English at Colby College. His publications include the memoir/adventure, The Same River Twice (University of Arizona Press) and feature nonfiction and essays in Down East, Yankee, Islands, Outside, Boston Globe, The New York Times, Maine Décor, AMC Outdoors, The Sunday Times (South Africa), and other national publications. He is also a playwright, having won the 2018 Maine Literary Arts Award. For more than 30 years he was a whitewater and wilderness river guide in Idaho, Alaska, Oregon, California, Arizona and Mexico, having made several first-descents by raft. He lives in Wilton with his wife, the fiction writer Patricia O’Donnell.
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SCHOLARSHIP
The MWPA is proud to offer one partial scholarship to this workshop for members-only. Scholarships are awarded on a combination of need and merit. Application Due two weeks prior to the workshop start date, at 9:00 a.m.
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