WORKSHOP: Writing for Life with Dan Keane - How to Write a Portrait

WRITING YOUR LIFE 
with Dan Keane

How do you write down a life? Your memories are eager to be captured, but the blank page can be daunting indeed. Join Dan Keane for a series of warm, insightful workshops that explore various paths into autobiographical writing and offer simple, accessible techniques for bringing your stories to life.

How to Write a Portrait

Tuesday, February 17
6 - 7:30pm

It’s amazing how few words it takes to sketch a vivid character—but which words, and where do you put them? Using examples from both fiction and memoir, Dan Keane will show you how to write a portrait that lives and breathes on the page.

What you will learn:

• How to choose the telling details
• How to write revealing dialogue
• How to turn a gesture into a relationship

About your teacher
Dan Keane writes the newsletter american.nz. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, Harper’s, Newsroom, The Spinoff, North & South, McSweeney’s, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading, among others. He's been the Bolivia correspondent for The Associated Press, taught writing at NYU Shanghai and the University of Michigan, and is now a PhD candidate at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington.

Our venue is up one flight of stairs:
Blackwell & Sons
Level 2, 110 Main Street
Greytown

Tickets: there are no physical tickets for this event. When you checkout and pay, choose 'Pick Up' and you won't be charged a shipping fee. If you accidentally pay one, we will refund it.

Refund policy: due to the bespoke nature of these classes and limited capacity we do not offer refunds. You are however welcome to pass your ticket onto someone else if you can't attend.