Sewanee Writers on Writing

2000-11-01 Literary Criticism

Author : Wyatt Prunty
Release : 2000-11-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book Sewanee Writers on Writing written by Wyatt Prunty. This book was released on 2000-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For two weeks every year, literary figures from throughout the country gather in rural Sewanee, Tennessee, to lead the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, a series of workshops and colloquia aimed at cultivating the craft of writing. Gleaned from the first ten conferences, the “craft” lectures collected in Sewanee Writers on Writing offer a range of perspectives on writing as practiced by various playwrights, poets, and fiction writers whose gifts have made the Sewanee conference a mecca for developing talent. The essays offer a banquet of topics that will whet the appetite of all authors, professional and amateur. Russell Banks ponders the role of research in the constitutive power of the imagination, John Casey considers simultaneity in art, and Ellen Douglas describes how a writer confronts the changing shape of memory. Reviewing the many changes he has witnessed in his distinguished career as a playwright, Horton Foote offers his perspective on the collaborative spirit of the theater, and Ernest Gaines explains why his subject matter must always remain the people of Louisiana. Anthony Hecht responds to W. H. Auden, revealing the ways both poets pair talent with subject, and in a discussion of Robert Frost, John Hollander explores the delicate subtleties of Frost’s figurative thought. Diane Johnson offers a witty and frank answer to the question all writers face at one time or another: “Write what?” Donald Justice expounds on the virtues of obscurity in poetry, and Romulus Linney offers practical guidelines for using dramatic action to revise a play. In her examination of Nabokov's Bend Sinister, Alice McDermott demonstrates that fiction writers are bound by no rules other than “do whatever you can get away with.” Marsha Norman provides a witty list of the dos and don'ts of playwriting and Francine Prose stresses the importance of detail to a story’s credibility. Finally, volume editor Wyatt Prunty discusses the figure of vacancy in the stories of Flannery O’Connor and Peter Taylor.

As We Were Saying

2021-06-09 Literary Collections

Author : Wyatt Prunty
Release : 2021-06-09
Genre : Literary Collections
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Download or read book As We Were Saying written by Wyatt Prunty. This book was released on 2021-06-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every summer for the past thirty years, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference has gathered a community of writers for two weeks of workshops, readings, talks, and meetings focused on the craft and art of writing. This book is a selection of craft talks delivered during the conference over the last several years. Some essays focus on one or two authors, some focus on texts, while others cast their regard more broadly. All are written in response to questions generated by the process of writing, as masters of the craft candidly report challenges they confront and the means by which they work to resolve such issues. The eighteen essays encompass poetry, fiction, and playwriting, investigating questions of language, character, design, and meaning, with nuanced readings of particular authors and works alongside more wide-ranging reflections on craft. Designed for audiences of writers and readers across multiple levels and backgrounds, the essays collected in As We Were Saying offer original, insightful arguments about the craft of writing and the power of literature.

Unarmed and Dangerous

2000 Fiction

Author : Wyatt Prunty
Release : 2000
Genre : Fiction
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Download or read book Unarmed and Dangerous written by Wyatt Prunty. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wyatt Prunty's poems have been described as "quiet, reflective, and of unexpected depth" (Howard Nemerov), "both artful and truthful" (Donald Justice), "a triumph of controlled and understated but powerful emotion" (Anthony Hecht), and "illuminated by a language both skewed and precise" (Walker Percy). As a poet, Prunty—who is also the founder and director of the Sewanee Writers' Conference—has been praised for "his powerful imagination in the specifics of ordinary details, suggesting persuasively that the near at hand is as unexplored and full of wonder as the far ends of the universe" ( Publishers Weekly) and called "one of the most gifted and technically accomplished American poets of the post-World War II generation" ( Southern Review). An elegant overview of his career until now, Unarmed and DANGEROUS: New and Selected Poems features selections from Wyatt Prunty's five previous books— The Times Between (1982); What Women Know, What Men Believe (1986); Balance as Belief (1989); Run of the House (1993); and Since the Noon Mail Stopped (1997), all published by the Johns Hopkins University Press—as well as new poems that demonstrate the poet's wide-ranging and sympathetic imagination. Prunty's new work includes moving evocations of childhood ("A Child's Christmas in Georgia, 1953"), richly detailed poems about ordinary people and situations ("The Downtown Bus"), and even a probing meditation on the fairy tale "Jack and the Beanstalk" ("Annals of Jack"). Together, the poems gathered in this volume afford a clear portrait of a major American poet whose distinctive voice and vision have earned him the admiration and respect of such contemporaries as Richard Wilbur, X. J. Kennedy, and Mark Strand and marked him as "a writer who has mastered his craft, [a] poet [who] can look at the life most of us take for granted and show us what is most real, most precious in it" ( The Commercial Appeal).

The Complete Guide to Writers' Conferences and Workshops

1995 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : William Noble
Release : 1995
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Download or read book The Complete Guide to Writers' Conferences and Workshops written by William Noble. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gives authors of all types easy access to events being held in the United States and Canada.

A Story that Happens

2021-09-14 Performing Arts

Author : Dan O'Brien
Release : 2021-09-14
Genre : Performing Arts
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Download or read book A Story that Happens written by Dan O'Brien. This book was released on 2021-09-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on O’Brien’s experience of cancer and of childhood abuse, and on his ongoing collaboration with a war reporter, the four essays in A Story that Happens—first written as craft lectures for the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the US Air Force Academy—offer hard-won insights into what stories are for and the reasons why, "afraid and hopeful," we begin to tell them.

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