Do you like fiction? Check out these 5 panels at this year’s Winter Wheat!<\/p>\n
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\u201cOn Writing Horror: Avoiding Ghastly Clich\u00e9s,\u201d with Olivia Zolciak and Tanja Vierrether<\/strong><\/p>\n Creepy dolls, dark basements, experiments gone wrong, and groups splitting up and encountering their inevitable doom. It\u2019s all been done before, but there\u2019s something about the horror genre that keeps readers craving that visceral fear of the unknown and unexplainable. Therefore, it is important to engage readers in a genre that is constantly reproducing similar motifs. In this workshop, we will discuss common horror fiction clich\u00e9s and how to work in a space defined by them.<\/p>\n Olivia Zolciak<\/strong> is an MA student in English at BGSU and an assistant editor with Mid-American Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n Tanja Vierrether<\/strong> is an MA student in German at BGSU and an assistant editor with Mid-American Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n (this workshop will be held on Friday, November 4th<\/sup> from 3:00-4:15pm<\/strong>. If you\u2019re interested in attending this workshop, select A8<\/strong> when you register!)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cDeath in the Afternoon\u2014at Winter Wheat: Writing Believable Death Scenes,\u201d with Nick Heeb<\/strong><\/p>\n In this workshop, participants will learn innovative ways to write death scenes in their fiction. Participants will have an opportunity to write their scene depicting the death of a character\u2014remember, the death doesn\u2019t need to be violent, it just needs to be authentic. Please come prepared with a character you\u2019re ready to kill off!<\/p>\n Nick Heeb<\/strong> was born in western South Dakota. He is currently working towards an MFA in fiction at BGSU.<\/p>\n (this workshop will be held on Friday, November 4th<\/sup> from 4:30-5:45pm<\/strong>. If you\u2019re interested in attending this workshop, select B4<\/b>\u00a0when you register!)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cStories as Jokes\/Jokes as Stories,\u201d with Samuel J. Adams<\/strong><\/p>\n In this workshop, we will examine jokes and stories that follow a punch line\/non-sequitur structure. After reading Saki\u2019s exemplary\u00a0The Open Window<\/em>, we will review academic theories of jokes and then briefly discuss fictional works that follow this structure, along with some time-honored jokes and acts from comedians who have mastered the art of storytelling. After that, we will generate stories that adhere to this structure, either by fleshing out a joke we already know, or turning a humorous instance from our lives into comedic writing. A few participants will perform their work at the end of class.<\/p>\n Samuel J. Adams<\/strong> was born in Japan and grew up in Northern California. Before entering BGSU\u2019s MFA program in fiction, he taught school in Estonia, wrote for lifestyle magazines, made wine, and managed a vocational program for adults with disabilities. And no, he is not named after the beer.<\/p>\n (this workshop will be held on Saturday, November 5th<\/sup> from 9:30-10:45am<\/strong>. If you\u2019re interested in attending this workshop, select C2<\/b>\u00a0when you register!)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThe Protruding Moment in Fiction,\u201d with Brad Felver<\/strong><\/p>\n This session will investigate the \u201cprotruding moment\u201d in fiction\u2014big, often bizarre, memorable events that tend to stick in the reader\u2019s brain long after finishing reading. We will consider what makes a moment truly protrude: the anatomy of them, their benefits and potential pitfalls, and how to structure stories to best make use of them. Ultimately, we will start sketching out some ideas for protruding moments in our own work.<\/p>\n Brad Felver\u2019s<\/strong> stories have recently appeared in One Story<\/em>, Colorado Review<\/em>, Harpur Palate<\/em>, and Zone 3<\/em>, among other places. He teaches at BGSU.<\/p>\n (this workshop will be held on Saturday, November 5th<\/sup> from 11:00-12:15pm<\/strong>. If you\u2019re interested in attending this workshop, select D3\u00a0<\/b>when you register!)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cHave Some Backbone: Using Unexpected Structures to Challenge Your Prose,\u201d with Jameelah Lang<\/strong><\/p>\n As a writer, it\u2019s sometimes easy to fall into expected patterns in your work, depending upon a few reliable tricks for plot, structure, and language; this can lead to a writing rut or prevent your work from making leaps and strides. We will amass new tools for dealing with structure in prose, taking a critical lens to the ways that emerging and experimental writers disrupt structural patterns. We will discuss examples of interesting patterns in text, song, and film, establish some ground rules for how they are used, and practice applying them to our own work in freewrites and writing exercises.<\/p>\n Jameelah Lang<\/strong> is an Assistant Professor of English at Franklin College and holds a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston. Her fiction recently appears in The Kenyon Review<\/em> and Pleiades<\/em>. She has received awards from Bread Loaf, Sewanee, VCCA, and Hub City Writers Project.<\/p>\n (this workshop will be held on Saturday, November 5th<\/sup> from 3:00-4:15pm<\/strong>. If you\u2019re interested in attending this workshop, select F6<\/strong>\u00a0<\/b>when you register!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Do you like fiction? 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