Storytelling: A Creative Writing Class for Everyone

Storytelling: A Creative Writing Class for Everyone

Your anecdotes about agricultural life in Europe, about i

mmigration to North America, about your klitah process 

in Israel, about parenting, about work-related foibles,

 and more, all make wonderful stories. Your special moments 

deserve to be retold again and again. Akin to how scrapbooks

 help us classify and store our visual memories, recording

 narratives helps us classify and store our verbal ones.

Develop skills for preserving your valuable, humorous and serious insights.

No writing experience needed. Students, however,

 must be willing to consider their ideas important and themselves valuable.

Course Topics:

I. Selecting among Your Experiences and Fancies

II. The Chronology of a Story

III. Nay-saying Your Internal Critics

IV. Content and Style vs. Point-of-View

V. Writing Circle: Sharing Works in Progress

Class Time: Students Participate as Much or as Little as They Want

I. Prior to class, examples emailed to students.

II. Discussion/critique of examples and of weekly topic.

III. Writing empowerment exercises.

IV. Brief, in class, writing.

V. After class, homework.

Where: AACI – Dr. Max & Gianna Glassman Family Center

- 2 Poalei Tzedek, Talpiot (corner of Pierre Koenig, opposite Hadar Mall)

When: Wednesdays, March 9, 16, 23, 30, April 6, 16:00-17:30

Cost: AACI members NIS 240/non-members NIS 280

Pre-registration required. Call 02-566-1181.

This class is lead by KJ Hannah, "Channie," Greenberg, Ph.D.

, Pushcart Prize nominee. Channie has published two books

, one musical, ten magazine/newspaper columns/blogs, and

 several hundred essays, short stories and poems.