This workshop will consist of two sessions. The first session will take place on Sunday, October 25, from 1:00 to 2:15 p.m. The workshop fee includes both sessions.
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This workshop will consist of two sessions. The first session will take place on Monday, October 26, from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. The workshop fee includes both sessions.
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This workshop will consist of two sessions. The second session will take place on Tuesday, October 27, from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. The workshop fee includes both sessions.
In this workshop, we will do a series of exercises that will get you motivated, un-blocked, un-stuck, and inspired—exercises that will free you from your mind and help you connect to the “play” part of the word “playwright.”
John Cariani is an award-winning stage, film and television actor who grew up in Presque Isle, Cariani is the author of four popular plays. His debut play, “Almost Maine,” is one of the most frequently produced plays in the country.
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A perennial favorite Word Festival event, the Poetry Crawl is online this year! Join us from the comfort of your own home for this extraordinary line-up of poets: Ekhlas Ahmed, Linda Aldrich, Colin Cheney, Deborah Cummins
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This workshop will consist of two sessions. The second session will take place on Wednesday, October 28, from 6:30-7:30 p.m. The workshop fee includes both sessions.
This workshop, appropriate for all levels, will cover key elements of contemporary personal or family memoir along with craft tips and techniques to guide or enhance your own memoir writing.
Gretchen Eberhart Cherington is the daughter of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Eberhart. Her memoir, Poetic License, focuses on life among her parents’ social circle of literary giants, exposing the difficult realities behind the myths. Her family spent summers on Cape Rosier.
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Two acclaimed writers with roots in Mexico, Maine meet to discuss the complexities and joys of writing about the lives and landscapes of the Pine Tree State.
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Let’s spend time with this form and experiment with our own innovations. We will examine poems by Wanda Coleman, Forrest Gander, Joshua Mehigan, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and Terrance Hayes.
Myronn Hardy is a faculty member at Bates College in Lewiston and the author of four award-winning volumes of poetry as well as short stories that have garnered two Pushcart Prize nominations.
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In this workshop, we’ll explore how to feed the sparks of your initial ideas and inspirations and grow them into layered, complex stories that will burn bright in the eyes of editors and the minds of young readers.
Anica Mrose Rissi, who grew up in Deer Isle and spends part of the year there now, is the author of more than a dozen books for kids and teens, including the Anna, Banana chapter books, Love, Sophia on the Moon and Nobody Knows But You.
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Jonathan Lethem discusses his new novel, The Arrest, set in a rural Maine community inspired by East Blue Hill, with Portland novelist and memoirist Kate Christensen.
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