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Start: 2:00 pm
Join us for this special event entitled, The Dent in My Forehead: Alice Walker, Anxiety, and the Art of Biography
Evelyn C. White will discuss her decade-long journey as the official biographer of Alice Walker. In this informal conversation, she'll address the rise of the "you too can become a best-selling author" industry and the special lure that prospects for "fame and fortune" can hold over aspiring writers. Expect candor and honesty about the myriad pitfalls of commercial publishing and the resources writers in all genres can develop to claim their artistic destiny.
Note, this event coincides with the regularly scheduled time for the VB Reads...Lesbian Book Group, and participants in that group are encouraged to attend.
Start: 4:00 pm
A friend once bet Ernest Hemmingway that he couldn’t write a story in just six words. In this mini-workshop, we will discuss how Hemmingway proved his friend wrong. Both beginning and experienced writers are encouraged to come learn about short-short stories, a genre developing on the fringes of literary fiction. Join us and learn how to condense conventional storytelling elements into potent pieces of “microfiction.”
Scott Provence has an MFA in Fiction from UW and his short-short stories have been published in numerous literary journals. He will be teaching a short-short story class at WCC in late February that is open to the public.
Read the article about Scott and his Flash Fiction.
Co-sponsored by WCC’s Community Education program.
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2012 Chuckanut Writers Conference
