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Veterans Writing Workshop Spring, 2015

May 1, 2015 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

 

 

Dorothy Shubow Nelson, M.A. English, Workshop Facilitator

 

The goal of this workshop is to write.

 

The Veterans Writing Workshop is designed to help people get started or move forward on their own writing projects. Veterans from all conflicts are welcome. There will be eight sessions on Fridays from March 13 until May 1 from 10 – 12 at the Veterans Center, 12 Emerson Avenue. The workshop is limited to 12 writers.

 

We will write new work regularly: sketches, personal stories, poems, prose poems, letters, depictions of the self and beyond the self, and descriptions of visual experiences. The workshop encourages attention to the inner voice and its encounters with the outer world. As witnesses, writers will describe and interpret their ongoing thinking, observations and memories in the process of making meaning.

 

There will be time for all writers to read from their work and to listen and learn from the writings of others in a friendly, supportive atmosphere. We write to understand the world and we also create literature to know ourselves.

 

The workshop will inspire people to realize the benefits of an ongoing writing practice. The confidence of writers will be reinforced by seeing the mind at work as it emerges on the page. I am eager to read your work and converse with you in writing from week to week. I also want to meet with everyone, one-on-one.

 

“We shall not cease from exploration

And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started

And know the place for the first time.”

 

T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

 

 

Register with Lucia Amero at the Office of Veterans Services

12 Emerson Avenue. Call 978-281-9740.

This workshop is supported by the Gloucester Office of Veterans Services

and the Gloucester Writers Center.

There is no charge for taking this workshop.

 

Dorothy Nelson has taught writing and literature for over 25 years.

Formerly, Senior English Lecturer at UMass Boston,

she is on the board of the Gloucester Writers Center.

 

For more information contact: Dorothy.Nelson@umb.edu

 

Details

Date:
May 1, 2015
Time:
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Venue

Gloucester Office of Veterans Services
12 Emerson Avenue
Gloucester, MA 01930 United States
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