[etni] Fwd: Seminar at Stern House, Monday, January 20,2014 with award winning author Ayelet Tsabari

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Subject: Seminar at Stern House, Monday, January 20,2014 with award
winning author Ayelet Tsabari

Jerusalem Winter Seminar: Monday, January 20, 2014

with Award-Winning Author

Ayelet Tsabari


You are invited to put those New Year resolutions into action! Spend
an inspiring day in the Stern House, a villa opposite the walls of the
Old City of Jerusalem, studying the works of great writers and
improving your own writing.

Finding the Creative in Creative Nonfiction:

Possibilities of Form in Creative Nonfiction


Course Description

“Essays can do everything a poem can do, and everything a short story
can do—everything but fake it.”

—Annie Dillard


“Pay attention not to the matter, but to the shape I give to it.”

—Montaigne


Shaping your story is one of the greatest challenges for the creative
nonfiction writer. While applying fictional techniques may enhance
your prose, imposing a traditional narrative structure on true stories
may feel artificial and forced. Our lives do not follow a
straightforward narrative arc and memory doesn’t provide a structured
plot: it goes on tangents and takes shape in fragments. This seminar
will introduce the aspiring writer to the different forms, subgenres,
and possibilities in creative nonfiction, and broaden their
understanding of the genre. We will explore different framing devices
that depart from the traditional, linear structure such as lyric
essays, braided essays, and collage essays, and read CNF pieces that
experiment with voice, point of view, and tense. Through guided
exercises and class discussion we will discover new ways to tell our
stories and think about structure, voice and form, while retaining a
sense of joy and freedom in our craft.


Readings Include:

Alphabet Autobiographica – Eufemia Fantetti

Nine Days - Suzanne LaFetra

A Braided Heart: Shaping the Lyric Essay- Brenda Miller


Excerpts from essays by authors such as Mary Karr, David Shields, Mimi
Schwartz, Sarah Turner and others may also be used in class
discussion.


The Instructor

Ayelet Tsabari is the author of The Best Place on Earth
(HarperCollins), nominated for the Frank O’Connor International Short
Story Award. Her book of essays, You and What Army, was shortlisted
for the 1st Book Competition, sponsored by Anvil Press and SFU’s
Writer’s Studio. She is a two-time winner of Event’s Creative
Non-Fiction Contest, and her nonfiction won a National Magazine Award
and a Western Magazine Award. A graduate of the MFA program at Guelph
University and SFU’s Writer’s Studio, Ayelet has taught creative
writing through the University of Guelph and is currently teaching at
the University of Toronto. She was named as one of ten Canadian
writers to watch by CBC.www.ayelettsabari.com.


Registration

The seminar will take place in The Stern House, 34 Tura Street, Yemin
Moshe, Jerusalem (not to be confused with the Stern House in Mamilla)
from 9:00-16:00 (with a 1.5 hour break for lunch). Minimum
registration is 10 participants with an absolute maximum of 18 (on a
first come, first served basis).  Registration is final only when your
check has arrived at Bar-Ilan University.


The cost of the Winter Seminar is NIS 475, There is a 5% discount if
you mail your check by Thursday January 9th, and a 10% discount only
for students and graduates of the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in
Creative Writing at Bar-Ilan University (only one discount can apply).
The cost includes pdf files of novel excerpts, hand-outs during the
seminar, coffee/tea and snacks all day, as well as use of the fridge
at the Stern House in Yemin Moshe, where the seminar will take place.
The fee does not include lunch – you can bring a packed lunch or
patronize one of the restaurants within a five-minute walk.


All checks must be made out to Bar-Ilan University. Make sure your
Israeli ID appears on the check. If you do not have an Israeli ID,
write the passport number and country of whoever is signing the check.
 If you want to pay in US dollars or English pounds, convert the
shekel amount at www.xe.com.


Together with the checks please attach a clearly printed note with the
following information:

full name, address, phone numbers, email address and which seminar/s
you wish to attend.


Mail to:

Nadia Jacobson, Coordinator (Winter Seminar 2014)

Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing

Department of English, Bldg. 404

Bar-Ilan University

5290002 Ramat Gan


Email Nadia Jacobson at barilanwriting@xxxxxxxxx on the day you mail
the check so she knows it’s on its way. Shortly after registration,
you will receive pdf files of novel excerpts.


Cancellation policy

If you cancel before January 15, 2014, and we can fill your place, you
forfeit a NIS 200 processing fee. If you cancel after January 15, 2014
and we cannot fill your slot, your entire registration is
non-refundable.


Nadia Jacobson
Coordinator
Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing
Bar-Ilan University
barilanwriting@xxxxxxxxx
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