On Keeping a Notebook (A Workshop to Develop a Writing Practice)
Categories: Arts & Entertainment Workshops & Meetings
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Monday, May 22, 2023 10:30am - 12:30pm
Location
THE NEW LOCAL
741 Pearl St.
Details
$55/person, includes materials
In this workshop, I’ll introduce you to some of the forms notebooks can take and the types of entries you might write. I’ll offer exercises to unlock your own voice and subjects, to reflect on your experiences, and to use your notebook as a starting point to generate new ideas. We’ll discuss how notebooks are both sketches for larger creative projects as well as works of art in their own rights. You’ll leave with the first few pages of your notebook written, tools for developing a regular practice, and inspiration to keep creating.
About the Instructor Lara Jacobs :
A graduate of Northwestern University and of Boston University's MFA Program in Fiction, I teach courses in narrative writing, writing and the visual arts, and travel writing at the University of Colorado Boulder. I empower people of all ages and backgrounds to find a language and a form to tell their stories. I lead writing workshops for Lighthouse Writers' Workshop in the HardTimes program, for alumni of Eating Recovery Center and Pathlight Mood and Disorder Centers, as well as for healthcare workers at Children's Hospital as part of the CORAL Arts Program, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Anschutz Medical Campus. My community workshops include those for first-generation students at the University of Colorado and the elderly at the Academy Boulder.
In my own writing, I was a semi-finalist for a Fulbright in Creative Writing. My novel was recommended by the U.S. Fulbright committee for a grant and was endorsed by architecture professors at the University of Sydney and English literature and creative writing professors at the University of New South Wales, in conjunction with their Center for Modernism. My short story “Pitchers of Milk, Now Empty,” was a finalist for the 2021 Bayou Magazine James Knudsen Prize for Fiction.
