SUNDAYS, June 22nd & 29th |In this intensive workshop, you’ll explore how to make imagery work for you in your own short stories, personal essays, or memoir. Effective imagery goes far beyond flowery description to bring your reader closer to the experience on the page and to evoke thematic resonance. A well-placed image can reveal character, mood, context, tone, or setting. Whatever your subject matter, imagery brings it to life through concrete detail.
In class, we’ll explore how to draw on intuition and right-brain association to harvest images; we’ll also look at how to choose and shape those images. We’ll look at effective uses of imagery in published pieces, giving you specific guidelines for what to apply to your own work.
Each student will have the opportunity to generate and revise new work through short written exercises and shared feedback. This class is suitable for writers looking to improve a work-in-progress or to start something new.