CREATING CHARACTERS: A one-session workshop with Jennifer Freed

Register here: https://givebutter.com/LnDmEI

Suggested fee: $50

As we sink into a good novel, memoir, or narrative poem, what is it that makes us “see” and care about the characters on the page? In this workshop, we’ll discuss ways writers make their characters come alive in a way that “shows” instead of “tells.”  We’ll do close readings of various excerpts from published authors to elicit strategies that can be applied to your own writing. Then, in-class writing exercises will give you a chance to apply what you’ve learned to your own work.

All are welcome: No previous experience required!

Jennifer Freed has been leading Writing Craft programs for organizations including Yale Women Writers, the Stanley Kunitz Home Summer Writing Program, and her own local library. She is the author of When Light Shifts, a memoir-in-poems, which explores the aftermath of her mother’s cerebral hemorrhage and which was named a 2022 finalist for the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize from the New England Poetry Club. http://jfreed.weebly.com