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Stevan Allred & Joanna Rose: Classes
Meeting times are Wednesday evenings from 6:30 to 10 or so. There is a nominal fee involved. Sessions are 6 weeks long or 8 weeks long or whatever makes sense according to school breaks and big holidays and Stevan & Joanna’s schedule, but anyone can join up any time and that nominal fee gets pro-rated. A drop by visit is a good way to see how it happens.
We sit around a pinewood table with other writers and talk about sentences and words and how they pile up to become characters and stories. The other writers tend to be a fluid group, but Stevan and Joanna are always there. This little party has been going on for a lot of years now. This talk is about the words and the sentences (and the white space) in the pages the other writers bring. It’s called a class or a group or Wednesday night or sometimes it’s just called "stopping by". People who sit around the table write novels and stories and poems and millions of sentences, which get turned over like shiny rocks with cool bugs hiding.
To stay in touch with our upcoming workshops, find out who in our community is being published where, or inquire about visiting our weekly classes,
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The next Intentional Ducati will be held in the Seychelles, provided the grant comes through.
Joanna Rose and Stevan Allred occasionally lead workshops on various topics, sometimes at the Oregon Coast and sometimes in Portland. They talk about the Hero's Journey and how it has fractaled its way into contemporary writing. They examine different aspects of writing such as Voice, Objects, or the way a writing form can deepen a writer's own exploration of her or his materials. Always they use film and various prose and poetry forms to help writers develop a sense of playfulness about their own writing processes. From that sense of play comes a renewal of the writer's energies, and the chance of discovering new depths in their own work.
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