The Spark: Using Precise Imagery To Tell The Story with Genevieve Pfeiffer

    Monday, March 5, 2018 at 7:00 PM until Monday, April 2, 2018 at 9:00 PMUTC -05:00


    Sarah Lawrence College
    1 Mead Way
    Bronxville, NY 10708
    United States

    Instructor: Genevieve Pfeiffer
    Length: 5 sessions, $450
    Mondays, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

     

    This class is open to writers of any genre and any level. It is a class on meditation and precision as much as it is on playfulness. Imagery, when practiced accurately, is a threshold for the reader to enter the moment. We will learn to notice details and describe them, as Stephen Dobyns writes, with the “best words [in the] best order.”
     
    Accuracy depends on play as well as exercise—so we will play. We will work and re-work ‘the thing’ through various lenses until we discover the thing as it is (not necessarily as we want it to be). When we make this discovery our writing begins to breath, and stand on its own.
    Genevieve Pfeiffer is a poet, editor, and educator with a nonfiction habit. She currently serves as a Creative Director for a start-up non-profit, FitFund, and has facilitated workshops with both young children and incarcerated women. Her work has appeared in BlazeVox, Stone Canoe, Crack the Spine and So to Speak, a feminist journal for language and art. She received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. You may find her often in trees or online at BlackWidowProse.

    Writing Institute Registration Process:

    Step 1 - Registration Information: Complete this registration form in full.

    Step 2 - Payment: Once you click submit on this form, a new page will appear in your browser with a payment link. Click on the payment link, complete the required information, and submit your payment. 
     
    Payment is required for your registration to be confirmed. If we don’t receive your payment within 48 hours of submission of this form, your registration will automatically be cancelled. You will have to complete the form again if you wish to register for the class.

    Step 3 - Confirmation: Once we receive your payment, your registration will be finalized and confirmed with an email. Please keep this email for your records.  Details about room assignment, parking, and any other information relevant to the course will be emailed to registered students the week before classes begin.

    If you have questions about the registration process, please call us at 914-395-2205 or email writinginstitute@sarahlawrence.edu.

    Registration is no longer available because the event has been cancelled.