How You Say What You Say is Part of What You Mean

Synopsis

What defines imaginative writing and “creative nonfiction”? This lecture will examine one of the most inscrutable pieces of writing ever produced—James Agee’s six-page-long “Knoxville:nSummer, 1915”—to reflect on the too-often-overlooked foundations of the techniques, strategy, and purpose of literature.

The programme is suitable for readers and writers of all levels.

This programme is co-presented with the Asia Creative Writing Programme.

Programme Details:

Date: Saturday, 19 October

Time: 10:00AM - 1:00PM

Venue: Singapore Book Council Training Room, Goodman Arts Centre Block E #03-32

About the Speaker:

J.C. Hallman grew up in Southern California. He studied creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh, the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Hallman has published a book of short stories, The Hospital for Bad Poets, and edited two anthologies of “creative criticism,” The Story About the Story and The Story About the Story II.

Among other honours, Hallman was a recipient of a 2010 McKnight Artist Fellowship in fiction, and a 2013 Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation in the general non-fiction category.

Cancellation:

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