This summer, I'll teach in the very first Writing Camp at Gettysburg College, with my colleagues Nadine Meyer (poet) and Fred Leebron (fiction writer)!
I'll be teaching a session on writing nonfiction about trauma--how to get to the heart of your story and tell it well. This is always such a great conference, organized by Geoff Becker, and I'm honored to be teaching in it for the first time!
Kathryn is teaching workshops on travel writing and metaphor at the San Miguel Writers' Conference & Literary Festival in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
“What a metaphor expresses cannot be said directly or apart from it, for if it could be, one would have said it directly.” (from Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir, by Lauren Slater) A metaphor is suggestive — it creates new meanings and associations. And it can teach the writer, too — as we intuitively create metaphors, we […]