Workshop: Strong Currents: Writing About Place, Led by Patricia Foster

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Thursday, November 16, 5:00-7:00 p.m. EDTCost: $45Limited to 15 participants (A minimum of five participants is needed for this workshop.)Venue: Pat Conroy Literary Center | 601 Bladen St Beaufort, SC 29902

“. . . feelings are bound up in places.” –Eudora Welty

This workshop will be an immersive writing class focused on the narrative terrain of place and its possibilities for writers of memoir and the personal essay. This means we will explore our inner maps of experience and memory, assessing the physical texture and evocative details of a place (be it a room, a meadow, a neighborhood, a town, or a part of the country) as well as the value systems and moral struggles within that place (what is approved/silenced /avoided/revered/made nostalgic).

In this workshop, we will make lists, use repetitive phrases for rhythmic nuance, do free-writes, and use close readings of published essays/memoirs to guide us.…