Events for Thursday, September 15, 2016
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2:30 pm
FIRST DRAFT: A Literary Social (September 2016)
Have a drink. Write a story. Have another drink. Write a better story. Theme:Explaining the Unexplainable Instructor:Roxanna Elden Miami Book Fair presents First Draft, a series of informal writing events that turn happy hours into great stories. You’re inspired. But you’re also thirsty. Swing by a First Draft event for a drink (the first one’s on the house) and a guided ...
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Encuentro con el Dr. Facundo Manes
Una conversación con el destacado investigador argentino Facundo Manes, quien ha dedicado buena parte de su vida a estudiar el cerebro y su funcionamiento. En esta oportunidad presentará su más reciente título Usar el cerebro (Planeta, 2014). Facundo Manes (Argentina, 1969). Neurólogo y neurocientífico, fundador del Instituto de Neurología Cognitiva (INECO) y del Instituto de Neurociencia de la Fundación Favaloro. ...
Find out more »Fiction through Time and Place (Part II) with Fabienne Josaphat
CANCELED 6 weeks, September 15 – October 20 Take a look at historical fiction using elements of place, time, and cultural, political, and socio-economical context for developing fiction. Class will involve a discussion of setting, writing exercises and reading assignments, and workshop of novel chapters, short stories and or flash fiction. This six-week course focuses on writing and workshop of novels and ...
Find out more »Laugh About It: Humor in Autobiographical Writing with Dawn S. Davies
CANCELED 6 weeks, September 15 – October 20 Writing funny can be a challenge. Humor writer Erma Bombeck says, “Anybody can bring out your tears. That’s a piece of cake. It is twenty times—no, make that fifty times easier to make people cry rather than laugh.” Yet, humor is a healthy part of life and often can be the sugar that ...
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