THE ARTS AROUND
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SEPTEMBER 29�OCTOBER 6, 2021
Stretch your writing muscles
in Fishtrap workshops
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NTERPRISE — Fishtrap’s writing work-
shops traditionally encompass a wide
and creative array of courses, and the
2021-22 season is no exception. A variety
of online classes from weekend seminars
to month-long courses in poetry, fiction,
essay, nonfiction and more will be offered.
The season began with a poetry work-
shop led by Nick Jaina in September,
and there are six more on the schedule
through April. Join any of the workshops
virtually from wherever you are. Register
early to ensure your spot in the class.
Below are the next four courses. Fishtrap
will continue to add new workshops as
the season progresses, so check www.
fishtrap.org/writing-workshops for more
opportunities to write, learn and connect
with others.
STALKING THE STORY: LEARNING
FLEXIBILITY, PERSPECTIVE AND
PATIENCE WITH YOUR WORK
Saturday, Oct. 23, 10 a.m.-noon
To write well, you must learn to circle
the story until it reveals itself to you,
instructor Karen Auvinen says. Come
play in this generative workshop meant
to teach you how to stalk your writing.
Exercises will spur writing that will surprise
you and offer new perspective and energy
to whatever you are working on. Poets,
fiction writers, memoirists and the mildly
curious are all welcome. Cost: $60, or $55
for Fishtrappers.
REIMAGINING ENVIRONMENTAL
WRITING
Tuesdays in November, beginning Nov. 2,
6-7 p.m.
Nature and environmental writing are
often narrowly conceived as fly-fishing or
backpacking celebrations, or journalistic
advocacy about an aspect of the climate
crisis. In this generative workshop, how-
ever, instructor Emily Withnall will flip
traditional understandings of environmen-
tal writing by reading work that pushes the
traditional boundaries of the genre. By the
end of the month, participants will have
an essay drafted as well as resources for
revision and publication. Cost: $120, or
$110 for Fishtrappers.
THE SECRET OF ENERGY: WAYS
TO GET YOUR WRITING TO LEAP,
SING, AND SMASH!
Saturday, Nov. 13, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Instructor Karen Auvinen will reveal
how the secret to a great story is not plot
or fantastic characters but energy. Par-
ticipants will learn how a scene, essay,
story or poem explodes off the page when
energy is controlled by the writer. Ex-
plore taking leaps, leaving gaps and using
language to create prose and a story that
grabs readers. All writers of all levels are
welcome. Plan to do some reading ahead
of class and also write during class. Cost:
$120, or $110 for Fishtrappers.
WRITER AS MAPMAKER
Tuesdays in January 2022, beginning
Jan. 4, 6-8 p.m.
Maps, like literature, tell us where we
are and where we might go. Literature,
like a good map, tells us what’s adjacent
though just out of sight, what lies under-
foot, where the firm boundaries lie and
where they give way, according to instruc-
tor Corinna Cook. The contemporary
creative nonfiction essay serves as this
workshop’s lens: Participants will sample
essays that treat maps as art, essays that
expand maps into metaphor, and essays
that make maps out of language, and will
develop an original piece of writing that
dialogues with a map of their choice.
This workshop is suitable for published
authors, practicing students, writers who
simply dabble and all thinkers interested in
exploring nonfiction’s literary-cartograph-
ic lay of the land. Cost: $240, or $214
for Fishtrappers.
Oct. 1st
Frist Friday
Art Walk
with
Dennis
Goodwin
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