Curious Essays with Laura Marris (virtual)
In this two-part writing workshop, we will explore the unfolding beauty of the essay form and the ways it can capture your curiosity on the page. Our first session will be focused on how essays begin, inviting us to question, develop associations, and listen to the self. The second session will build on those beginnings to deepen our opinions and complicate first impressions, moving towards surprise, or even epiphany. Along the way, we’ll use writing exercises to try out various craft techniques for creative essays–whether they’re lyrical, critical, personal, or all of the above. We’ll look at transitions, pacing, humor, and the endlessly inventive unit of the paragraph. Each participant will leave the workshop with the arc of a brand new essay-to-be.
Workshop Dates
Join writer and translator Laura Marris for this 2-day workshop:
- Saturday, February 5, 2022 @ 1:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m.
- Saturday, February 12, 2022 @ 1:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m.
This workshop will be offered virtually.
- COVID SAFETY: We’ll be following social distancing protocol and providing masks and sanitizer as needed.
- ACCESSIBILITY NOTE: If you have any questions/issues accessing any of these opportunities, please let us know and we will work with you to make sure you can participate.
Date
- Saturday, February 12, 2022
- Expired!
Time
Zoom links will be provided to virtual participants.- 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Cost
- $60.00
Location
- 468 Washington Street, 2nd Floor, Buffalo, NY 14203
Featured Artist
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Laura MarrisWriter & TranslatorLaura Marris is an essayist, poet, and translator. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Believer, The Yale Review, The Point, and elsewhere. Her work has been supported by a MacDowell Colony Fellowship and a Daniel Varoujan Award. Recent translations include Albert Camus’s The Plague, Jean-Yves Frétigné’s To Live Is to Resist: A Life of Antonio Gramsci, and Geraldine Schwarz’s Those Who Forget. Books she has translated have been shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, the Scott Moncrieff Prize, and the French-American Foundation Translation Prize. With Alice Kaplan, she is the co-author of States of Plague: Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic (University of Chicago Press, 2022). She is currently at work on her first solo-authored book, The Age of Loneliness, which will be published by Graywolf in 2024.
(Photo credit: Matt Kenyon)
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