TRANSPARENT WINDOWS WORKSHOP
An online creative writing workshop with the title 'Writing through Loss and Conflict' will take place on Friday November 1st, 2024, with the participation of Don Schofield (creative writer; poet). The online workshop will be held between 18:30-20:15 via the ZOOM platform.
Language of the workshop: English.
**A certificate of attendance will be provided**
In order to ensure your online participation in the event, please fill in the form available here.
The ZOOM LINK to be used for the event will be sent to everyone registered. A certain number of ZOOM seats are available.
This event is organized by the Creative Seminar Series 'Transparent Windows' (School of English, AUTh).
Event Coordinator: Dr. Tatiani Rapatzikou (trapatz@enl.auth.gr)
For any further inquiries, do send your emails to: trapatz@enl.auth.gr (Dr. Tatiani Rapatzikou) and svergopo@enl.auth.gr (Dr. Stavroula Vergopoulou).
ΕVENT ABSTRACT
Writing about the loss of loved ones and conflict in interpersonal relationships are time honored themes in poetry and stories. The “Writing through Loss and Conflict” workshop will focus on how, by engaging in a specific creative process, a writer can confront intense emotional experiences involving intimate others, generate “raw material,” and shape that material into a finished piece of writing. Don Schofield, the workshop leader, will read poems from his own work and discuss the process they went through on the way to becoming completed pieces. He will also provide some of the psychoanalytical basis for this approach. He will then lead workshop participants though the beginning stages of the process, discuss the results the participants come up with, and suggest directions they can take in order to turn the material they have created into a finished poem or story.
BIO INFORMATION
Born in Nevada and raised in California, Don Schofield is a graduate of CSU, Sacramento (MA, 1978) and University of Montana (MFA, 1980). A resident of Greece for many years, he has taught literature and creative writing at American, British and Greek universities, and traveled extensively throughout Europe, the Middle East and farther afield. Fluent in Greek, a citizen of both his homeland and his adopted country, he is the editor of the anthology Kindled Terraces: American Poets in Greece (Truman State University Press), and has published six books of poetry in the US, the first of which, Approximately Paradise (University Press of Florida), was a finalist for the Walt Whitman Award, and a more recent collection, In Lands Imagination Favors (Dos Madres Press), reached the final round for the Rubery Book Award (UK). His translations of contemporary Greek poets have been honored by the London Hellenic Society, shortlisted for the Greek National Translation Award and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His latest book, six poems from which were also nominated for a Pushcart Prize, is A Different Heaven: New & Selected Poems (Dos Madres Press). Currently he lives in both Athens and Thessaloniki.
