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SUMMARY:RCAH Center for Poetry Workshop with Susan Tekulve
DESCRIPTION:
 "Moments of Being and Non-Being: Finding Extraordinary 
 Stories in Every Day Objects and First 
 Homes"\n
 In her essay, "A Sketch of the Past," 
 memoirist and fiction writer Virginia Woolf 
 maintains that we spend a good part of every 
 day not living consciously.  We eat, sleep, 
 work, and most of the time these daily activities 
 are what Woolf calls "moments of non-being." 
 Occasionally, there are times when we 
 are shocked out of our every-day complacency 
 to really see the world and all it contains. 
 Woolf calls these shocks  "Moments of Being," 
 and she contends that it is the job of a writer 
 to identify and examine these moments, releasing 
 whole stories that linger within these 
 flashes of consciousness. This workshop is 
 designed to help writers identify their own "moments 
 of being," and to mine these experiences 
 for material that lends itself to their most 
 engaging narratives.\n
  \n
 Susan Tekulve is 
 the author of In the Garden of Stone, winner 
 of the 2012 South Carolina First Novel Award 
 and a 2014 Gold IPPY Award as the best novel 
 published in the South by an independent press. 
 She's also published three short story collections: 
 Savage Pilgrims, Wash Day and My Mother's 
 War Stories. An Associate Professor of 
 English, she teaches in the BFA and MFA in 
 creative writing programs at Converse College.\n
  
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 Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1542613715972049/\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Administration\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://poetry.rcah.msu.edu/\n
 Contact name: RCAH Center for Poetry\n
 Contact phone: 5178841932\n
 Contact email: cpoetry@msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 http://poetry.rcah.msu.edu/calendar.html\n
LOCATION:Snyder C210H Conference Room
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