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Ongoing Events Monday Night Blues
Monday Night Blues is a free, weekly poetry event with a featured poet and an open mic. Hosted by Ellie Davis and Fred Hudson. At four years, it is Charleston's longest running poetry event. Monthly Fiction Writing Group
For all those closet novelists out there: bring your favorite pen and paper, your works-in-progress, your fictive mind. During our recurring fiction workshop series, we’ll be tackling major topics of the craft: dialogue, plot, character, tone, point of view, imagery. We’ll look at process, discipline, revision, submitting, editing. Our two hours will be split with instruction and interactive exercises, questions and answers, and brief sharing of exercises. Use this time to meet other writers and to put pen to paper. We’ll be helping you formulate ideas, improve your works in progress, and learn substantive techniques about the craft and art of fiction. Designed to help fiction writers at all levels, from beginning to professional, this time will allow for introspection and work on individual projects as well as a chance to learn about the many techniques of story. Sponsored by the Charleston County Public Library and The Lowcountry Initiative for the Literary Arts (LILA). For more information please call 843-805-6930. October Events Take A Step in the Write Direction
Sat. October 6th Main Library (10am-12)
Poets Susan Meyers and Marjory Wentworth offer a workshop on writing about the natural world. Writing activities will focus on the Lowcountry landscape in all its manifestations, the spiritual connection to place and the ways in which the natural world incorporates life and death simultaneously and continuously. A recommended bibliography will be provided to all participants. Open to writers of both poetry and prose. Sat. October 13th Main Library (10am-12)
Writing poetry is an exercise in being both of and yet apart from the world around us. How can we elevate our readers, while at the same time immersing them in the objects of the everyday? How can we create beauty, rich in complexity, which is both sublime and profane? Through a number of exercises—from enjambment and syllabics to eating blackberries—we will consider how to answer the call for beauty in poetry without forgetting the lyricism of imperfections. Hosted by Jessica Bundschuh Sat. October 20th Main Library (10am-12)
Do you know the story you want to tell, but you can’t quite get started? Have you actually begun, but the energy ran out? Totally lost? Don’t know where to begin? Come to this workshop to find the idea, create your narrative hook, and craft the first scene. Bring a work in progress (if you have one), a journal for in-class exercises, and a good pen. We’ll look at areas such as conflict, character, dialogue, and pacing in the first five pages. Hosted by Sean Scapellato Sat. October 27 Main Library (10am-12)
For beginning and experienced writers, the practice of journaling stages happy accidents and yields meaty rewards. Journaling steadies the mind, exercises the imagination, increases writing skills, and generates raw material for fiction, poetry, and memoir. This workshop will discuss strategies and tools for journaling. Students will carry home samples of their new journaling practice. An Evening of Poetry with Marjory Wentworth and Linda Annas Ferguson
Join us at the Charleston County Public Library for an evening of poetry with Marjory Wentworth and Linda Annas Ferguson. Marjory Wentworth, South Carolina Poet Laureate, will be reading from her new book Despite Gravity. And Linda Annas Ferguson will be reading from her new book Bird Missing From One Shoulder. Co-sponsored with the Lowcountry Initiative for the Literary Arts. Copies of these newly released books will be available for purchase and to have the authors sign. For further information, call 805-6930. For more events, please visit The Poetry Society of South Carolina and CharlestonPoets.com. |
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