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Character Whispering: Strategies for Further Insight with Justine Dymond
April 23, 2022 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Join us on Saturday, April 23, 10:30am – 12:00pm for a Straw Dog Writers Guild Craft Workshop: Character Whispering: Strategies for Further Insight with Justine Dymond,
Whether you are playing with possibilities for new stories or trying to get closer to a character you’ve known for a while, this workshop will offer a variety of strategies and prompts for deepening your understanding of the people in your writing life. Their voices can call to us from observations, dreams, art, and a multitude of other ways. Sometimes we hear these voices with a stunning clarity; other times, they remain muted to our ears–by differences in culture, history, language, or less weighty barriers, such as appeal and attraction.
Decide which of these people to invite to the workshop, warm up your writerly curiosity, and plan to spend a couple hours chatting up your characters.
This is a free online workshop and open to the public. Registration is required for this Zoom event. Click HERE to register.
Bio: Justine Dymond’s short story collection The Emigrant and Other Stories (Sowilo Press) won Hidden Rivers Arts’ 2018 Eludia Award. Her stories have appeared in Pleiades, The Massachusetts Review, The Briar Cliff Review, Meat for Tea, Lowestoft Chronicle, and Cargo Literary. She co-edited Motherhood Memoirs: Mothers Creating/Writing Lives (Demeter Press). Other honors and awards include a 2020 Mass Cultural Council finalist, second place in the New South prose writing contest for her memoir about breast cancer “Brave of Worms,” a 2007 O. Henry Prize, a “distinguished” story in The Best American Short Stories 2006, two Pushcart Prize nominations, and a nomination for The Best American Travel Writing. Her writing has earned grants and residencies from the Vermont Studio Center, Writers OMI at Ledig House, and Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. She teaches literature and writing at Springfield College and is currently working on a novel set in Boston in 1733.
