Spark Creative Writing Workshop

27/02/2013

A fantastic weekly podcast that includes poetry, fiction, and even theater! http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/writersblock/

KQED's weekly reading series featuring fiction, poetry, theater and whatnot for the San Francisco Bay Area.

11/02/2013

Why write?
http://weedlit.blogspot.in/2012/12/why-humanity-needs-fiction.html

Great post, I think you could extend this post to a chapter in a book. I think it is interesting to listen to when conversation turns to storytelling. It is the time of year when people gather for the holidays, and I am fascinated by that moment when you are just talking socially, and suddenly, some...

08/02/2013

"Crying Angel" by Keith Ratzlaff
http://research-intermedia.art.uiowa.edu/dp/index.php?artwork=909

as if heaven were only perspective, a vanishing point drawing us until we vanished. And if I am crying, it's for small things:

08/02/2013

02/02/2013

Creative writing is any writing that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature, typically identified by an emphasis on narrative craft, character development, and the use of literary tropes... for more pls join us in our workshop to explore your inner self.

02/02/2013

Remember everyone, workshop tomorrow at 2pm! Come with a favorite poem to share, a story you've been working on, or just a pen and your passion for writing!

01/02/2013

Like listening to poetry more than reading it? Check out this one from Dawes: https://soundcloud.com/pbsnewshour/rainbow-over-hope-road-by

Kwame Dawes's Hope's Hospice (Peepal Tree Press, 2009).


Rainbow Over Hope Road


And for just that instant
when from Hope Road

we watched the rainbow cut
across the robust body

of the Blue Mountains,
the way the sun seemed

filtered and the light clean
as peace; when the gleam

of quick color bounced
giddily off the cars;

in that instant we breathed;
and I was glad we could

share this together—
this fleeting lasting thing.

Kwame Dawes reads his poem, "Rainbow Over Hope Road."

29/01/2013

A great (and free!) site for all you aspiring screen and playwrights: https://www.celtx.com/index.html

From writing your first draft to scheduling your last shot, we provide the tools to get it done. Writing and pre-production tools for your browswer, desktop, and mobile devices.

27/01/2013

Poet and writer Kwame Dawes won an Emmy for his interactive site livehopelove.com, which explores the lives of Jamaican people living with HIV/AIDS through photography and poetry

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