Listening to Appalachia: A Creative Writing Workshop with Ann Pancake
April 27 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
$15 – $20
A writing class for all abilities and levels, “Listening to Appalachia” will teach strategies for generating new creative work, explore ways to draw on place for powerful poetry and prose, and introduce you to other Appalachian writers.
Ann Pancake is a native of West Virginia. She has published two short story collections, Given Ground (2001) and Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley (2015), and a novel, Strange As This Weather Has Been (2007), which was one of Kirkus Review’s Top Ten Fiction Books of the year, won the best Appalachian Book of the Year, and was a finalist for the Orion Book Award and the Washington State Book Award. She has also received a Whiting Award, an NEA grant, a Pushcart Prize, and the Bakeless Prize. Her stories, essays, scholarly articles, and journalism have appeared in venues like Orion, The Georgia Review, Manoa, Poets and Writers, The Journal of Appalachian Studies, and New Stories from the South, the Year’s Best. She lives in Arthurdale, West Virginia.
Students are required to bring their own notebooks and writing utensils.
*This is a repeat of “Listening to Appalachia: A Creative Writing Workshop with Ann Pancake” from March 2nd. If you took the March 2nd class, this will be the same, not a part 2.
