Writing Place Workshop with Marc Nair

​This writing workshop revolves around writing place, where participants will write poems or flash fiction about a place that is near and dear to them. Participants take an observational narrative approach to writing about place, employing selected poetry and flash fiction techniques. They will take turns sharing their work while the facilitator, poet Marc Nair, offers on-the-spot feedback.

This event will feature a 90 minute Workshop:

Introduction - facilitator (Marc) will invite participants to name their favorite place and expand on why it is so significant for them.

Facilitator will begin by sharing a couple of poems that are rooted in a sense of place, exploring how the poems are written in order to offer concrete suggestions for participants.

Participants then engage in a free writing exercise to generate content about a particular place. Facilitator will then invite some participants to share and suggest how to shape the content using a 'seed' idea or image from the free writing.