I'm proud to be part of Broward County Library's 2015 Big Read! See below for details on all the great workshops (including mine!) being offered:
Broward County Library continues this year’s Big Read, which celebrates the classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird, with a series of writer’s workshops taking place at the Main Library.
January 31, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Main Library, Bienes Museum for the Modern Book
Writing Workshop - The Key to a Powerful Novel Writing with Joyce Sweeney
Fee: $40 in advance, $45 at the door
Call: 954-357-7386
Powerful books have powerful themes. Atticus Finch says, "Sometimes it's better to bend the law a little in special cases." A theme poses a dramatic question to which there is no easy answer. And the question is then played out through the novel. Working with some of the most controversial thematic questions in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird, this workshop will explore how to identify the themes and core issues that resonate with us, and how to build those into our novels.
February 7, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Main Library, Bienes Museum for the Modern Book
Writing Workshop - Scouting Great Characters with Marjetta Geerling
Fee: $40 in advance, $45 at the door
Call: 954-357-7386
To Kill a Mockingbird presents some of the most memorable characters in American literature. Scouting Great Characters will examine how each character functions in the story and the lessons writers can learn from Lee’s careful character development. Writing activities will encourage writers to apply Lee’s lessons in order to create their own iconic characters.
February 21, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Main Library, Bienes Museum for the Modern Book
Writing Workshop - Setting: More Than Just a Backdrop with Deb Sharp
Fee: $40 in advance, $45 at the door
Call: 954-357-7386
Setting should never be an afterthought. It shapes both people and plot. Would To Kill a Mockingbirdbe the same book if the action unfolded in Manhattan instead of Maycomb, Alabama? That ''tired old town'' -- racially segregated, gripped by the Depression, a place where ''the courthouse sagged in the square'' -- is crucial to the characters' essence and actions. In this workshop, participants will consider the 1930s setting of the Harper Lee classic, and then practice ways to weave a sense of place into their writing.
To Kill a Mockingbird is an unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it. The book became an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960, and it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961. Later, the novel was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film. Compassionate, dramatic and deeply moving, To Kill a Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior – to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.
The Big Read, which is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) that’s designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. Free copies of the book are available at Broward County Libraries while supplies last; check your nearest BCL location for details.
To learn more about The Big Read and To Kill a Mockingbird, please visit these related web sites:
To learn more about The Big Read and To Kill a Mockingbird, please visit these related web sites:
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