Published author leads workshop
Titled, Making Memory Speak, the workshop is designed to teach participants how to identify the elements of their life experiences that make good story material. Participants should bring to the workshop three snapshots from different times in their lives. It is not necessary that participants be in the photographs; but they should be familiar with some of the particulars and have some connection to them in either a physical or emotional way. If photographs are not easy to locate, Arnoult will work with participants, using memories as guides.
Arnoult’s work has appeared in Nantahala Review, Southern Culture, Southwest Review, Southern Exposure, Asheville Poetry Review, Sandhills Review, Brightleaf: A Southern Review of Books and Now and Then Magazine.
She has over 10 years experience teaching and coaching creative writing and practice and offers private classes. She is a long-standing member of the Duke Writer’s Workshop faculty and teaches workshops through various community organizations such as the Duke Short Course program and Middle Tennessee State University Office of Continuing Studies.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in American studies with a concentration in Southern Folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an master’s degree in English and Creative Writing from North Carolina State University.
Her first full-length collection of poems, What Travels With Us, is forthcoming from LSU Press in the fall of 2004 and she has just completed her first novel. She and her husband live in Brush Creek, Tenn.
The cost of the workshop is $15. Advance registration is requested; but registrations will be accepted at the door on the day of the workshop. For more information, call 931-473-2428.