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Stretch Your Creative Limits with ArtWorks Writers’ Seminar Artworks Gallery/Chocorua Creative Arts Center is sponsoring a Writers’ Seminar on four consecutive Saturdays beginning October 23 at Runnells Hall in Chocorua, NH. The visiting authors and educators are sharing their writing approaches and experiences to better help participants reach their writing goals. Starting off will be an instructor from Colby Sawyer College, Courtney Spalding-Mayer and writer/illustrator Ryan O’Connor, www.ryanoconnorauthor. com/author/. The class will focus on the following outline: “What has the writer come here to say? This workshop approaches writing as an emergent process of discovery and uncertainty. Whether you’re interested in writing a memoir or a YA novel, we’ll explore how to fi nd meaning, get perspective, and play with structure through various exercises that will help defi ne the story you want to tell.” The second speaker in the fourpart series, October 30, is Alexandria Peary, Poet Laureate of New Hampshire and a 2020 recipient of an Academy of American Poet Laureates Fellowship and author of nine books. Read more at https://www.nh.gov/nharts/ artsandartists/poetlaureate.html. “In collaboration with White Mountains Community College and a variety of partners, Peary has spent months organizing writing workshops, games and activities and engaging opportunities for youth poet laureates and special guests-including published authors and a screenwriter.”
Writers drawing, Andrea Kennett. The class will open with readings from Ms. Peary’s poetry and prose followed by participants being introduced to the tenets of Mindful Writing, including strategies to manage “audiences-in-the-head”, self-talk about writing ability, and ways to notice the present moment to create new writing. Local author Richard Adams Carey on November 6 will share approaches to writing. “Go Ask Matty: The Storytellers Art: Matty Groves” is a 700-yearold English folk ballad and also a small jewel of the storyteller’s art. First we’ll hear the song. Then we’ll dig beneath its surface to fi nd what that great artist known as “anonymous” can teach us about narrative arc, characterization, dialogue, and climax, and how quickly and simply a good storyteller can deliver the goods in all those areas. There are also lessons in how to begin a story
and how to end it, and what to put in and what to leave out. Now a full-time freelance writer, he is the author of four award-winning books of narrative nonfi ction. His short fi ction, essays, and reviews have ap-
peared in many prominent publications. Read more at http://richardadamscarey. com/ The fourth and fi nal class, on November 13, with book designer, artist and local librarian Peggy Johnson will entertain, instruct and encourage you to further your writing. A person of many hats, Peggy has successfully authored many of her works of poetry and prose and art as well as shepherded several local Classes are fi lling up, so get your seat before the registration is closed. Pre-register at ArtWorks Gallery, classes are limited to 12 people, there are no walk-ins. As another measure of responsible public safety, you must be vaccinated and wear a mask. Call 603-323-8041 or stop by the gallery at 132 Route 16, Chocorua, NH. The gallery is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. everyday but Tuesday, and First Friday from noon-7 pm. To learn more, visit www.ChocoruaArtworks.com.
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