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TAPPING INTO THE SPIRIT OF PLACE:
A CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP
FOR POETS, MEMOIRISTS, FICTION & NONFICTION WRITERS
TAUGHT BY LINDA LAPPIN
TIME: Saturday morning, Nov. 1st. 2008 10 :00 – 13 :00
PLACE Boulevard Saint Germain, steps away from Shakespeare & Company
COST : 75 euros (includes follow-up manuscript critique via email)
FOR : poets, memoirists, fiction and nonfiction writers at all phases of their careers
Traditions the world over hold sacred the spirit of place. The myths of Africa, Asia, Australia, China, Tibet, and the Americas have all celebrated the guardian spirits known to the ancient Mediterranean world as the “genii loci.” The spirit of place, often unnoticed and unquestioned, nourishes our roots, our connection to past times and places and acts upon our imagination whenever we set off from home intent on new discoveries.
All writers have their spiritual geographies -- our maps of terrains trekked across or still to conquer, with their islands, oceans, highways and parking lots, cemeteries, signposts, landing strips or ley lines. In Lappin’s workshop, writers and poets will retrace those inner itineraries and attempt to unlock the voices and impressions hidden in places of the past. Through special exercises we will learn to evoke and recreate atmospheres of those remote, exotic, or intimate places and make them come alive through words.
Linda Lappin is the author of The Etruscan ( Wynkin deWorde, 2004)and Katherine’s Wish (Wordcraft of Oregon, 2008). She has taught writing workshops for the Kenyon Review Italy writers workshop, for Alimentum Literary Journal Italy workshop, for Feltrinelli International Bookshop in Rome, and for the University of Nevada Italy USAC program in Viterbo, Italy. She directs the writing workshops of Centro Pokkoli in Vitorchiano, Italy. She also teaches an online creative writing course. Information available at http://www.lindalappin.net
See her websites http://www.theetruscan.com
http://www.pokkoli.org
See also the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jheL7mLYTJE
Testimonials:
"Linda’s Lappin's Spirit of Place Creative Writing Workshop leads the writer to locate the heart of memory." Virginia Ripley, writer, Los Angeles, participant in the 2006 Kenyon Review Creative Writing Workshop in Italy
Linda Lappin's "Spirit of Place" workshop encouraged me to climb into the attic of memory to discover writing riches. Her prompts evoked
details of rooms and places, friends and relatives, sights and scents which poured onto the page. This workshop has given me a wealth of new ideas for story writing," Anna Duke Reach, Kenyon Review Program Assistant
Lappin will present a talk to Patricia-La Plante’s Paris salon on Sunday evening, Nov. 2
She will be reading at Shakespeare &Company on Monday Nov. 3. 2008
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