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Saturday, June 8 • 1:30pm - 3:30pm
The Burning Heart: Finding the Energy in Short Fiction (V)

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Short story writer Rick Bass talks about the “burning heart of the story,” the place where the story quickens, where the energy seems to snap and ignite. In this class, we’ll learn to recognize the burning heart of a story and practice techniques to locate it. Bring the opening paragraph of a story to work with.
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Karen Auvinen

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Karen Auvinen (she/her/hers) is poet, mountain woman, life-long westerner, writer, and the author of the memoir Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living, a finalist for the 2019 Colorado Book Award. Her body of work traverses the intersection of landscape and place, examining... Read More →

Saturday June 8, 2024 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
Zoom
  Fiction