“A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened,”
So wrote Nobel Prize-winning novelist and philosopher Albert Camus. In literary terms, the image is our currency: more than just a concrete, sensory detail, images carry within them unconscious, subjective meanings that move readers forward through a story, scene, or poem. That’s because our brains think – and we read -- in mental images rather than in abstractions. Images function on two levels at once: as real sensory things in the world, and as paths into a story’s, and your reader’s, emotional core. Led by Kate Moses, this workshop will illuminate how images work and how to use them in your own writing, whatever your genre. Limited enrollment
Kate Moses is an internationally recognized writer of award-winning, best-selling literary fiction and creative nonfiction best known for her acclaimed novel Wintering, published in 17 languages, her memoir Cakewalk, and her tenure as a founding editor of Salon’s Mothers Who Think. With four decades’ experience in book, magazine, and online publishing, nonprofit arts administration, community organizing for women artists, and advanced-level teaching of writing, Kate directs Birds & Muses, offering mentorship to aspiring women-identified writers. She lives in Thorndike.