Get creative at Fishtrap

Published 3:00 am Monday, October 14, 2024

ENTERPRISE — Fishtrap offers a variety of online and in-person workshop opportunities throughout the year, from weekend classes to month-long courses in poetry, fiction, essays, nonfiction and much more. Writers of all ages and experiences are welcome.

Here’s a look at classes coming this fall. Register at fishtrap.org.

Poetry for Non-Poets

This creative writing workshop with Kirsten Rohla is Saturday, Oct. 19, 10 a.m. to noon at Fishtrap, 107 W. Main St. Registration is $40, or $35 for Fishtrappers.

Through poetry exercises and connections, participants will write poems, talk about poems, and share poetry.

Writing Life: Autofiction, Fabrication, and Finding Truth through Fiction

This online creative writing workshop with Amanda Knopf Rauhauser will be Wednesdays, starting Oct. 16, from 6-7:30 p.m. Registration is $120 or $110 for Fishtrappers.

Participants will read and discuss excerpts of memoirs, fiction, autofiction novels and essays. This workshop also invites writers to practice crafting personal narratives that incorporate elements of fiction.

The group will receive a variety of writing and revision prompts throughout the month and are encouraged to share written work with the group during the final workshop session.

The Playful Essay

This 10-week online workshop with Perrin Kerns will meet on Mondays, starting Oct. 28, from 6-8 p.m. Registration is $600 or $540 for Fishtrappers.

Participants will write a series of essays that “play with our own personal stories, cultural histories, other writers’ thinking, dreams, questions and puzzles in our lives,” according to Fishtrap.

The focus will be on writing in response to prompts with a goal to finish three essays.

Writing in Multiple Points of View

Francesca Jimenez will lead this online writing workshop on Tuesdays, starting Nov. 5, from 6-7:30 p.m. Registration is $120 or $110 for Fishtrappers.

The class will look at excerpts from the novel “When I Sing, Mountains Dance” by Irene Solà and other examples of multi-POV narratives to show how they create an interconnected narrative.

Through generative exercises and sharing work with each other, participants will explore how multiple POVs can describe intergenerational and familial expectations, characters’ relationships with one another, and the nature and environment of their world.

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