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Beyond Baroque’s intensive writing workshops allow writers from all schools and walks of life to learn from world-class authors in single and multi-session workshops.



Beyond Baroque's Fourth Annual 30 in 30 Workshop with Brendan Constantine


Every Saturday
March 30 - April 27, 2024
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM PT
All workshops will be held via Zoom

Poet Brendan Constantine returns to Beyond Baroque for National Poetry Month and his popular 30/30 Challenge Workshop! Begining on the last Saturday of March and through every Saturday in April, participants will engage in projects and discussions to inspire even the most reluctant writer. At the end of each session, everyone receives a packet of prompts and materials to keep you writing a poem a day! This is its fourth popular year in a row and spaces will go fast!

Brendan Constantine is a poet based in Los Angeles. He is the author of five full-length collections and his work has appeared in many standards including Poetry, The Nation, Best American Poetry, and Poem-a-Day. A popular performer, Brendan has presented his work to audiences throughout the U.S. and Europe, also appearing on NPR's All Things Considered, TED ED, numerous podcasts, and YouTube. He currently teaches creative writing at the Windward School and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Since 2017, he has been developing poetry workshops for people with Aphasia and Traumatic Brain Injuries.

 

From Image to Page with Myriam J. A. Chancy


April 6, 2024
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM PT

Have you ever thought about utilizing photographs to spark your writing? Would you like to write fiction or memoir inspired by your own image archives, or from images that populate your imaginary? For my latest novel, Village Weavers, family pictures from the early to mid-20th century served as inspiration for character building, style, mood and setting. They led me to a deep dive into Haiti's history and culture during that period to build the fictional world of the novel. In this 3-hour workshop, we will work from pictures as a springboard to develop characters in detail and to set scenes as a means to create a sense of place, mood and time. By the workshop's conclusion, you will have a structure to work from, inspired by images, with strategies in your toolbox ready to deepen your research and to develop your fiction or memoir text. If you don’t have any specific images in mind, I will provide some you can work from during the workshop.

Myriam J. A. Chancy is the author most recently of the novel Village Weavers (Tin House). Her previous novel, What Storm, What Thunder, was named a "Best Book of 2021," by NPR, Kirkus, Library Journal, the Boston Globe, Globe & Mail, shortlisted for the Caliba Golden Poppy Award & Aspen Words Literary Prize, longlisted for Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize & the OCM Bocas Prize, and awarded an ABA from the Before Columbus Foundation. Her past novels include: The Loneliness of Angels, winner of the 2011 Guyana Prize in Literature Caribbean Award, Best Fiction 2010; The Scorpion’s Claw and Spirit of Haiti, shortlisted in the Best First Book Category, Canada/Caribbean region of the Commonwealth Prize, 2004. She is also the author of several academic monographs, including Harvesting Haiti: Reflections on Unnatural Disasters & Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women. Her recent writings have appeared in Whetstone.com Journal, Electric Literature, and Guernica. She is a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and HBA Chair of the Humanities at Scripps College in California.