Taylor Brorby will conduct two advanced, three-hour creative
nonfiction workshops at North Dakota State University, which will be
open to the greater Fargo community. Students will workshop each
other’s pieces, receiving details for improvement, striving to bring
each piece to a publishable level. Taylor Brorby is the author
of _Crude: Poems, Coming Alive: Action and Civil Disobedience_, and
co-editor of _Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in
America_. Taylor has received grants and fellowships from Bread Loaf,
the National Books Critic Circle, the MacDowell Colony, and Mesa
Refuge. His work has been published in T_he Huffington
Post_, _North American Review_, _Orion_, among others. Taylor
travels around the country to speak about the Bakken oil boom, climate
change, and hydraulic fracking. He teaches at Hobart and William Smith
Colleges and is contributing editor at North American Review. He's at
work on three separate memoirs that deal with western North Dakota,
growing up gay on the Northern Great Plains, and being a Type 1
Diabetic.
WORKSHOP FORMAT
What participants need to do:
BY MARCH 15TH PARTICIPANTS WILL SUBMIT A 5-8 PAGE, DOUBLE-SPACED WORK
OF CREATIVE NONFICTION FOR WORKSHOP TO info@humanitiesnd.org.
Download copies of all workshop pieces from link provided.
Print-off and mark-up (write comments) your workshop peers' pieces.
Bring a copy of each piece (including your own) to workshop. At the
end of each person's workshop, we'll hand back their marked-up pieces
to them so they may further develop them.
Be ready to speak about each piece in the workshop in detail (what you
enjoyed, what you were curious about, what you would like to see more
of).
Participants should write about how they felt while reading the piece
(_not whether they liked it or not or thought it good or bad_) on the
piece itself--think of this as a "love note" to the writer.
Workshop will follow this model during our
discussion: _Describe_ (what is this piece
about), _Praise_ (what's working well), _Question_ (what
were _you_ confused about, like to see more of).
WHAT TAYLOR BRORBY WILL FOSTER AND OFFER:
--A safe environment for each participant so she/he/they feel
comfortable throughout the entire experience.
--Energy to get discussion going.
--Additional print-offs for participants to take with them.
--He will infuse conversation for tips/insights applicable for
everyone so they might take their WRITING TO THE NEXT LEVEL.
--A hell of a good time.
For questions email info@humanitiesnd.org or call 701.255.3360
(Exact location on campus will be emailed to program participants upon
registration.)
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