Creative Writing Workshop series for Women Veterans (Online)

Program Type:

Author & Literary Events, Health & Wellness

Age Group:

Adults
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Event Details

Registration is open to Veterans/ active duty and their families, please. Participants are encouraged to attend all sessions.

This workshop is offered in-person (Miller branch) as well as virtually.

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Creative writing includes fiction, creative nonfiction (memoir and personal essay), poetry, and expressive writing such as blogging and journaling.

In this six-week workshop, women veterans and women who are military family members are invited to explore aspects of the craft of creative writing that can be applied in any of these genres. Participants will discuss elements of the writing craft, examine short passages of creative work written by women veterans and women family members, and complete generative writing exercises to help spark creativity and suggest possible directions for future writing projects.

Session 1: Introduction to creative writing; women and writing the military experience

Session 2: Character, dialogue, and diction

Session 3: Setting (place, time, mood, the body), point of view, and voice

Session 4: Narrative and lyric writing, scene and summary, and interiority

Session 5: Time and memory, theme, and writing about trauma

Session 6: Revision, publication, and the writing life.

Jerri Bell is the Managing Editor for O-Dark-Thirty, the literary journal of the Veterans Writing Project. She retired from the Navy in 2008; her assignments included antisubmarine warfare in the Azores Islands, sea duty on USS Mount Whitney and HMS Sheffield, and attaché duty at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, Russia. Her work has been published in a variety of journals and newspapers, and has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She and former Marine Tracy Crow are the co-authors of It’s My Country Too: Women’s Military Stories from the American Revolution to Afghanistan; her book on the first African American women to serve officially in the US armed forces is forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press/Potomac Books.

This event has been sponsored by a grant from M&T Charitable Foundation.

Questions? rohini.gupta@hclibrary.org

Photo: Sailors and Marines conduct flight operations off of Vietnam, 1966. Credit: USN.

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