{"id":817,"date":"2016-10-24T15:56:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T19:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/?p=817"},"modified":"2016-10-24T15:56:56","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T19:56:56","slug":"winter-wheat-2016-lit-techniques-and-ideas-panels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/winter-wheat-2016-lit-techniques-and-ideas-panels\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Wheat 2016: Lit Techniques and Ideas Panels"},"content":{"rendered":"

Check out these great workshops at Winter Wheat!<\/p>\n

\u201cWriting Respectfully and Accurately about Characters with Disabilities,\u201d with Sheri Wells-Jensen, Tex Thompson, Jason Wells-Jensen and Abberley Sorg.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Being inclusive means more than choosing to designate one of your characters as disabled. It means (1) asking yourself why you want to include that character, (2) doing the research to make sure you are able to portray that character with accuracy and respect, and (3) taking steps to follow through to make sure your depiction does no harm. This workshop provides guidelines and hands-on activities to practice these skills.<\/p>\n

Jason Wells-Jensen<\/strong> was the \u201clanguage architect\u201d for Tex Thompson\u2019s Children of the Drought<\/em> series of rural fantasy novels. He has taught linguistics and ESL in Puerto Rico and on the mainland, and also has degrees in library science and music.<\/p>\n

Sheri Wells-Jensen<\/strong> is a linguist at BGSU who specializes in teaching English to speakers of other languages. She has worked as a language creator for Scholastic Books and writes about disability with special emphasis on blindness.<\/p>\n

Look for her internationally published epic fantasy Western series, Children of the Drought<\/em> (Solaris), and find her online at www.thetexfiles.com<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Abberley Sorg<\/strong> is a student in the Literature and Textual Studies MA program at BGSU. Prior to this, she attended the University of Toledo\u2019s Sociology MA program. Her research interests include representation of disability in media and literature and societal perceptions of individuals with personality disorders.<\/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 B8<\/strong> when you register!)<\/p>\n

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\u201cLet\u2019s Deal With This Thing Called Family,\u201d with Marissa Medley<\/strong><\/p>\n

Families can be a source of inspiration for writers. Whether good or bad emotions flow from these relationships, they can give us much to write about. Here we can take a look at how to write about families and explore why we do this as writers. We\u2019ll also look at writers like Sylvia Plath and Rita Dove. And, of course, we\u2019ll have some writing time to get our emotions on paper.<\/p>\n

Marissa Medley<\/strong> is a senior at BGSU studying arts management and creative writing. She is the poetry editor of BGSU\u2019s Prairie Margins<\/em>. She enjoys playing steel drums and working at the local record store.<\/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 C6<\/b>\u00a0when you register!)<\/p>\n

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\u201cGiving Snow White the Heimlich Maneuver and other Tales: Using Classic Tropes and Characters in Original Writing,\u201d with Erika Schnepp<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the strongest techniques a writer (of any genre) can employ is drawing on the common chords and tropes we as readers have seen since we were little: tropes like religious figures, characters from fairytales, and literary and pop culture figures who have managed to stand the test of time. Also increasingly popular is the updating of these characters for the modern era, introducing the figures and themes to new generations and even subverting outdated messages to better represent the lessons we want to pass down now versus generations ago. It is just as important that the stories are used in a fashion that increases a new theme and that the same story isn\u2019t merely retold. This workshop will explore ways common tropes and characters are currently being updated and played with in prose and poetry, as well as methods to revitalize the tropes for your own work without being bogged down in their shared history.<\/p>\n

E.B. Schnepp<\/strong> is a poet from rural Mid-Michigan who\u2019s found herself in the flatlands of Ohio with an MFA from BGSU and a bad procrasti-baking habit. She is currently the Director of the Learning Center and Retention Coordinator at OSU Lima. Her work can also be found in Crab Fat<\/em>, pacificREVIEW<\/em>, and Paper Nautilus<\/em>, among others.<\/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 C7<\/b>\u00a0when you register!)<\/p>\n

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\u201cDo Tell: 100 Facts for Writing Sensory Details,\u201d with Laurin Wolf<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thanks to William Carlos Williams, we know, \u201cThere are no ideas but in things.\u201d Thanks to the glittering handbooks for writers, we know that concrete details are what make writing powerful. We know we need more grit and gusto in our details. But how do we get at those precious details? If your prosody engine needs a jump-start on the details, do tell. In this workshop, we will look at examples from poetry, fiction, and nonfiction that rely on objects to tell a narrative. The workshop culminates in a fact-finding exercise using random objects to generate narrative.<\/p>\n

Laurin Wolf<\/strong> has an MFA from Kent State in poetry. Her poems have appeared in Pittsburgh Poetry Review<\/em>, PoetsArtists<\/em>, Rune<\/em>, Scholars & Rogues<\/em>, PMS<\/em>, and Two Review<\/em>. She hosts the monthly reading series MadFridays and guest hosts the radio program Prosody on WESA. She teaches at Robert Morris University.<\/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 D7<\/b>\u00a0when you register!)<\/p>\n

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\u201cCollars, Capes, and Chantilly Lace: Learn to Describe Clothing,\u201d with Anne-Marie Yerks<\/strong><\/p>\n

Clothing is the costume of life and creates identity. What are your characters wearing? Lend a layer of realism to your fiction, poetry, and nonfiction with precise descriptions of fabrics, seams, and shapes. We\u2019ll go over a fashion vocabulary list then swatch out a sample of fashion-forward prose.<\/p>\n

Anne-Marie Yerks<\/strong> is the author of a novel, Dream Junkies<\/em> (New Rivers Press, 2016), and lives outside Detroit. She has work forthcoming in Modern Memoir<\/em> (Fiction Attic Press) and in Juked<\/em>. She is a blogger for Sewingmachinesplus.com<\/em> and is working on a BA in fashion. Find her @amy1620 and at www.annemariewrites.com.<\/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 D8<\/b>\u00a0when you register!)<\/p>\n

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\u201cMaking Details Matter,\u201d with Christi Clancy, Alicia Holliday, Miette Muller, Lexi Schnitzer, and Alby Leonardi<\/strong><\/p>\n

A\u00a0well-chosen detail has the power to reveal character,\u00a0advance plot,\u00a0convey social and economic status, and establish a sense of place.\u00a0Think of the kielbasa and rosaries hanging from the car mirror in Stuart Dybek\u2019s story\u00a0\u201cWe Didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

This workshop will focus on some strategies I\u2019ve employed to help writers make effective\u00a0use of details, including classroom exercises and writing prompts. I also leverage the campus and surrounding community as fertile ground for quirky, surprising, and sometimes heartbreaking details. The trick is to move away from Google searches and out of our comfort zone; we are more likely to notice details when our senses are on alert in unfamiliar (but safe) spaces.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll discuss activities like the \u201cbattle of the details\u201d to architecture hunts, and field trips to quirky museums and strange auctions. We\u2019ll engage the workshop in several short detail-writing exercises.<\/p>\n

Christi Clancy<\/strong> teaches English at Beloit College. Her work has appeared in The New York Times<\/em> and Chicago Tribune<\/em>, and in Glimmer Train Stories<\/em>, Hobart<\/em>, Pleiades<\/em>, Midwestern Gothic<\/em>, the minnesota review<\/em> and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Alicia Holliday, Miette Mueller, Lexi Schnitzer, and Alby Leonardi<\/strong>\u00a0are all students at Beloit College.<\/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 F2<\/b>\u00a0when you register!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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