WEEKEND WRITING WORKSHOP - MAY 14-16
Award winning writer Aine Greaney will be teaching a workshop entitled "Your Long Story Short: Write & Publish Your Memoir Essay". Part teaching, part student-workshop, this program will include the following:
- An interactive, writing-intensive learning experience to introduce participants to the personal memoir essay genre, which ranges from a 10 page essay to the shorter pieces in the back of the Sunday Globe Magazine.
- An opportunity to craft vivid memoir scenes from your own life and to distill those scenes into a readable narrative.
- Peer feedback
- Q&A
- Information and handouts on getting your short memoir essay published
- An opportunity to meet and network with other writers in your area
Areas of Focus:
- Narrative voice and narrative distance
- Plotting your memoir story
- Making your memoir scenes come alive for readers
- Dialogue versus narrative: How and when you should use them in your memoir essay
- Just the facts, Ma'am: Telling the real and remembered truth
- Devilish Details: Writing (but not overwriting) your settings
The workshop will be held at the Heritage House in Hyannis, beginning Friday night from 5:00 - 7:00 for a meet & greet reception in the lounge at Chauncy's Bar & Grill with complimentary hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar. Class begins Saturday and will be held from 9 am - 4 pm in the Nantucket Ballroom of the Heritage House, with a one-hour break for lunch, which is included in the program. Sunday's class will be 9:00 - Noon.
Price for this course is $95 for CCWC members; $130 for non-members (includes price of membership) if you register before April 23rd. After April 23rd, the price for CCWC members is $115 and for non-members $150.
To register, Please call the office at 508-420-0200 or click on the following link.
Register For Workshop
If you will be commuting and need a place to stay, The Heritage House is providing a discounted rate to our registrants: 2 night minimum, $109 + tax per night. Call 800-352-7189 for reservations.
 About Aine Greaney: Award-winning Irish-born writer Áine Greaney now lives and writes on Boston's North Shore. She has published personal (memoir) essays, feature and travel articles, a novel and a collection of short stories.
Her work has appeared in literary journals and publications such as "Creative Nonfiction," "Natural Bridge," "The Larcom Review," "The Literary Review," "Under the Sun," "Stone Canoe," "The Sunday Tribune New Irish Writing," "Merrimack Valley Magazine" and "Cyphers." Her debut novel, “The Big House” was published in 2003 by Simon & Schuster, U.K., while her short-story chapbook, “The Sheepbreeders Dance” was published by Flume Press (Cal. State University at Chico).
Her stories and memoir essays have also appeared in anthologies such as "The Fish Anthology," "Irish Girls are Back in Town," "From the Heart of Ireland," and "Lost and Found: An Anthology of Teachers' Writing." Greaney’s second novel, "Dance Lessons" is forthcoming from Syracuse University Press. Her how-to writing book, “The Muse in the Cube” is forthcoming from Writers Digest Books.
Greaney has taught and lectured at various schools, arts and writers conferences including The Cape Cod Writers Conference, the North Shore Young Writers Conference and Emerson College, Boston. She has presented memoir-writing workshops at Northern Essex Community College, Norwood Public Library, Ocean Park Writers Conference and Nichols Retirement Village. She holds a B.Ed. in teaching from the National University of Ireland (studied under Seamus Heaney) and a master’s in English from the College of St. Rose.
She is an active member of various arts and writers organizations, including the New Hampshire Writers Project, Seacoast Writers Association and The Cape Cod Writers Center. www.ainegreaney.com
REGISTER FOR WORKSHOP
BREAKFAST WITH THE AUTHORS
Our next Breakfast with the Authors will be July 9th (location TBD) from 9:30 - 11:30 am. Enjoy a continental breakfast while listening to three authors speak about their writing and recent works. Questions and book signing/sales to follow. Please see our Breakfast with the Authors page for more details about July's event.
WRITERS NIGHT OUT
Our next Writers Night Out will be held May 19th at Uno's in Hyannis at 5:30 PM.
CAPE COD POETRY VENUES
The Greater Brockton Society for Poetry and the Arts
Presents
Poetry Series at the Brockton Library
304 Main Street. Map it! New website!! www.gbspa.org
Celebrating Poetry One Saturday Every Month
This is a Free Event
with really comfortable chairs and divine refreshments
12:00 - 2:00 Poetry Writing Workshop
1:30 - 2:00 Sign up for Open-Mic Reading
2:15 - 3:15 Open-Mic Reading
3:30 - 4:30 Feature Poets
During Open-Mic Reading share your own poetry or read from works of your favorite poets.
Brockton Library Poetry Series
Sheila Mullen Twyman
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The Poets' Corner at The Cultural Center of Cape Cod in S. Yarmouth is now co-hosted by Joe Gouveia and Barry Hellman.
The Cape Cod Cultural Center (The Old Bass River Savings Bank)307 Old Main Street in South Yarmouth
Last Thursday of every month; 7-8:30 pm. Open Mic and Featured Poet. Free.
You're welcome to bring your own refreshments.
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The Poetry Session
A monthly Poetry Open Mic at O’Shea’s Olde Inne, 348 Main St. (Rte 28) in West Dennis • 7pm to 8:30pm every third Thursday of the month; features a guest poet and open-mike session. Get there before 7:00 to sign up for the open mic. Come early for dinner; stay late for another dinner.
The Poetry Session is a free event hosted by Robin Clarke and Gregory Hischak. Welcomes all ages.
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The Poets Corner is located at The Sunrise Cafe,
2 West Central Blvd., Onset at the center town green on the first Monday of every month at 6:00 pm. It will also be taped to go on WCTV during the week.
It's a great venue for old and new writers to showcase their work! For more information, contact Denise Raney at 508-317-3176.
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The Chapel in the Pines (FOR MORE INFO: http://home.comcast.net/~bmhellman)
The Chapel in the Pines has become a bi-annual (October and April) event and is not to be missed. Barry
Hellman hosts this 10:00 am to noon reading.
The next bi-annual Chapel In The Pines Open Mic in Eastham will be on October 25, 2009, Sunday morning, 10 am-noon. DOORS OPEN AT 9:45.
Regularly updated information on poetry venues and events is available at Barry Hellman's Poetry Website http://home.comcast.net/~bmhellman .
220 Samoset Rd in Eastham. Advance reading sign-up by email to: bmhellman@comcast.net. At the door sign up as available.
Take Route 6 to traffic light at Eastham Town Hall. West on Samoset Rd. 1/4 mile, just beyond the Eastham Library.
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Open-mike Night
6:30 p.m. Fridays at Buckies's Biscotti, 281 Mains St. (Route 28), Dennisport, 508-398-9700.
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Borders Books
Starts around 6 or 6:30; the last Sunday of every month at Borders Books, 990 Iyannough Rd. (Route 132) founded by Theresa Schrafft (t.schrafft@comccast.net)
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Calliope - Poetry Readings at West Falmouth Library
West Falmouth Library, 575 West Falmouth Hwy. (Rte. 28A), West Falmouth.
calliopepoetryreadings@verizon.net
3 to 5 p.m. on the fourth Sunday of the month (September-May, except December) features three poets and an open-mike session for local poets to read one poem. $5 donation is requested. Refreshments provided. Hosted by Alice Kociemba (508-566-1090; alicekociemba@verizons.net. Open mike sign-up 2:45 p.m.
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