Jennifer Brennock will present “Weather Patterns” at the next Writers Roundtable on Saturday, Sept. 11.
How do the elements of setting support your writing? In this Roundtable we’ll get out our literary umbrellas and sunscreen and talk about how to elegantly incorporate external elements of setting, like weather, into our pieces. We’ll look at readings from Jackie Kay’s Trumpet and E. Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News among others to examine how to skillfully use your setting for the most compelling impact and keep it free of cliche.
Prompted exercises. Peer feedback. Writers of all skill levels and genres welcome, including beginners.
Jennifer Brennock is the assistant director of Artsmith, an Orcas nonprofit supporting writers and visual artists, and the emcee of the Artsmith Salon Series. She earned an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Goddard College. She has edited poetry, critical commentary, creative nonfiction, and fiction for a literary journal. Her memoir piece “Spilling” was recently published in the Pitkin Review. She teaches creative writing and writes in all genres. “Writing while learning how to write is like patting your head and rubbing your stomach; you just gotta keep doing it until it feels natural.”
The Writers Roundtable will be from 1 t0 3 p.m. at the Orcas Library.
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