A 2-Day Multigenre Workshop
Saturdays, September 26 & October 3, 10 AM - 12 PM
Francine Prose says, “Dialogue is action when it contains the possibility of change...In order to engage us emotionally in a disagreement, the characters must have an emotional stake in the outcome.” Participants will be asked to submit one dialogue-heavy scene of a work-in-progress. All students in the workshop will be expected to read one another’s work, but they will not be expected to provide written feedback. We’ll use class time to look at each other’s work through the lens of specific aspects of dialogue including tone, tension, the avoidance of expository writing, and subtext. Participants will leave with techniques on how to use dialogue to create those emotional stakes Prose refers to!
$90 Members/$135 Nonmembers
Jen Dupree is an assistant editor for The Masters Review, a librarian, and a former bookstore owner. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from USM’s Stonecoast program. Her work has appeared in December, Solstice, The Masters Review, On the Rusk and other notable places. She is the winner of the Writer’s Digest Fiction Contest for 2017, and a two-time winner of a Maine Literary Award (2022, 2006). Her novel, The Miraculous Flight of Owen Leach was published in April of 2022 by Apprentice House Press. Her second novel, What Do You Want from Me? is due out in the spring of 2025.
www.JenniferDupree.com www.facebook.com/jennifer.dupree.716
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