The Gloucester Writers Center is a place for working writers in a working town
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Love and Apocalypse, Externalize Your Inner Apocalypse. Reading and Writers Workshop.
August 8, 2015 @ 9:00 am - 11:00 am
Book Reading and Writers Workshop
2 hours August 8, 2015
9AM to 11AM
Please register by emailing gloucesterwriters@gmail.com.
A reading from Love and Apocalypse, Externalize Your Inner Apocalypse followed by discussion, and a writing workshop designed to inspire and inform. Discover how creative writing can help you let go of the past and feel better. No experience necessary, and no one will be expected to read unless they wish to. Workshop will be based on book content and will include brief instruction, free writes based on writing prompts, and supportive, facilitated feedback. Bring paper and pen and prepare to enjoy.
Ellen Szabo promotes creative writing for personal investigation, enrichment and social change. She earned her B.A. from Harvard College, and her M.Ed. from Columbia University Teacher’s College. She writes and teaches with a focus on how innovation and creativity can illuminate, inspire and advocate compassionate transformation. She teaches ‘Creative Writing for Social Work’ at the University of Iowa School of Social Work. Her private practice, based in Cape Ann, Massachusetts, provides instruction, coaching, editing and support to individuals and groups, locally and online.
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Love and Apocalypse, Externalize Your Inner Apocalypse
Writing fiction can help you feel better. This book offers instruction, inspiration and prompts for externalizing your inner apocalypse. Using creative writing, readers are encouraged to make meaning of their experiences by discovering, emphasizing and illuminating changed perspectives. Every character and every story we write is autobiographical. Our writing can transform us by offering opportunities to explore, examine, and understand outcomes from our lives, and to imagine alternatives. We can evoke a sense of justice and peace, not by changing outcomes (usually it’s too late for that), but by changing perspective. Apocalyptic stories can inspire change, and even hope.
Ebook available on Amazon, paperback available soon.