How Photographs Frame Story: Smiles, Beehives, and Station Wagons

    Saturday, June 11, 2016 at 10:00 AM until 3:00 PMUTC -04:00


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

    Instructor: Kathy Curto
    Length: 1 day intensive, $225
    Saturday, 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM

    In this workshop we will examine a favorite or provocative photograph and ask, Why is this image part of my story? What is it about this picture that nudges the memory? Is it your mother’s beehive, your baby’s smile, the station wagon with wood grain siding, the gaudy velvet wallpaper, or maybe the scotch and soda on the table next to your father’s recliner? Using a few simple writing exercises, we will sort through answers to these questions and then write a short memoir piece. It will be not only the photograph itself, but also the wondering and reflecting, that will shape our written work. Writers of all genres and levels are welcome and students should bring a copy or original of their chosen photograph to our session. We will share our work (and some refreshments) in the final hour.

    Kathy Curto teaches writing at The Writing Institute/Sarah Lawrence College and Montclair State University where she is a 2015-16 Engaged Teaching Fellow. Her work has been published in the newly released anthology, Listen to Your Mother: What She Said Then, What We’re Saying Now, and in publications including Drift, Talking Writing, Junk, The Inquisitive Eater, The Asbury Park Press, Italian Americana, VIA-Voices in Italian Americana and Lumina. Kathy lives in Cold Spring, New York with her husband and their four children. For more information visit FB page https://www.facebook.com/kathy.curto26 or website: www.kathycurto.com.

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