WORKSHOP: Writing Your Life with Dan Keane - The Everyday Haiku

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.

The Everyday Haiku

Tuesday, March 3
6 - 7:30pm

Simple, earthy, and short as a text message—the haiku is a poetic form old as the hills but accessible to all. Reading serious and silly examples from haiku’s greatest masters, Dan Keane will reveal simple, powerful techniques to capture your own days in bite-sized but elegant verse.

What you will learn:

• Go beyond counting syllables
• Haiku as small talk: seasons, animals, neighbours
• How to nail the perfect quiet ending

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.