Writer in Residence Workshop: Creative Writing Inspired By the Cinema

Program Type:

Discussions and Lectures

Age Group:

Adults 18+
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Program Description

Event Details

This workshop will explore editing innovations by classic film directors and apply those concepts to contemporary writing, through playful exercises and interactive prompts that embrace purpose, chance, and mistake. Poets and writers of all genres are welcome.

Shawnte Orion is the author of Gravity & Spectacle (a collaboration with photographer Jia Oak Baker from Tolsun Books) and The Existentialist Cookbook (NYQBooks). He is an editor for rinky dink press and his poems have appeared in Threepenny Review, Barrelhouse, Sugar House Review, New York Quarterly, and on the flipside of a split 7inch vinyl record with San Francisco band Sweat Lodge. 

For more information, visit his website.

 

Additional Information

LSTA Statement

This project is supported by the Arizona State Library, Archives & Public Records, a division of the Secretary of State, with federal funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

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All events at the Glendale Public Library are public, and participants may be photographed by the media and/or City staff for future print and/or online publication.