Thursday, September 20, 2018 Write Here. Write Now. Timelines: 1b: Past Events (Unseen Archive), 3e: Past Adult Workshops (Unseen Archive)
Taught by: Brian Castner
Where:
Just Buffalo Writing Center
468 Washington Street, 2nd Floor
Buffalo, NY 14203
Dates: November 17
Time: 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Cost: $75 | $60 for members
Our quests of personal transformation can take us far afield, but any inward journey needs to be grounded in a sense of place and time. Brian Castner will discuss the process and craft of travel writing, creating landscapes and scenes, and students will share and develop their own creative nonfiction. This Master Class will include the opportunity to workshop a piece of writing (max. 2500 words) submitted by November 1 to submissions@justbuffalo.org
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Brian Castner is a nonfiction writer, former Explosive Ordnance Disposal officer, and veteran of the Iraq War. He is the author of Disappointment River, All the Ways We Kill and Die and the war memoir The Long Walk, which was adapted into an opera and named a New York Times Editor’s Pick and an Amazon Best Book. His journalism and essays have appeared in the New York Times, WIRED, Esquire, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and on National Public Radio. He is the co-editor of The Road Ahead, a collection of short stories featuring veteran writers, and has twice received grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, to cover the Ebola outbreak in Liberia in 2014, and to paddle the 1200 mile Mackenzie River to the Arctic Ocean in 2016. In March 2018 he joined Amnesty International as a Senior Crisis Advisor.
“Whether recounting the historic search for the Northwest Passage or his own epic journey on the Mackenzie River, Castner is an able guide, a steady hand, a voice of reason. You’ll want to sit in his canoe and ride this out. I couldn’t put Disappointment River down.” – Dean King, author of Skeletons on the Zahara and The Feud
“Like the best of storytellers, Castner transports us into the world of the men and women who fight and die and grieve: a struggling widow, two amputees, the exhausted pilot, the contractor for hire, a talented female biometrics engineer, even the jihadist bomb makers. An extraordinary work of nonfiction that reads like a suspense novel.”- Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, author of the New York Times bestseller Ashley’s War
“Taut as a drawn bow… Its authenticity rings through, in both the battlefield scenes and his account of a family under strain.” – CJ Chivers, The New York Times Magazine
“I think my favorite [book of the Iraq War] so far is The Long Walk, a memoir by a bomb-disposal technician, Brian Castner.” – Tom Ricks, author of The Generals, The Gamble, and Fiasco
“A candid and unflinching account … [that] warps the arc of the traditional coming-of-age story.” – Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times