The Politics of Art, or Taking Back the Creative Process
Author and publisher Molly Best Tinsley will give a brief history of trade publishing since 1970 and discuss where mainstream publishing is today. She will present alternatives, including an exploration of:
- Print-On-Demand
- Publishing Collectives
- Do-it-yourself – Self-Publishing
- The internet revolution – ebooks and ezines
- Fuze Publishing – the company she started with Karetta Hubbard
Afternoon Session: ($30.00 for all participants) 1:30-4:30.
Writing the Second Draft, or Shaping Narrative Structure.
Email one week in advance (or bring) the first pages (up to 10) of a narrative-in-progress. Molly and the group will comment on and discuss as many as time permits. She will also make a presentation on:
- Structure versus texture
- Audience awareness
- Points on the story’s arc
- Storytelling conventions, including point of entry, narrative hooks and surprise.
Email pages to soww77@gmail.com and bring copies to share.
Molly Best Tinsley, Ph.D., the author of Satan’s Chamber and a co-founder of Fuze Publishing has received recognition from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Oregon Book Awards, the Pushcart Prize, the Maryland Arts Council, among others. She is the co-author of The Creative Process (Bedford/St. Martin's), and the author of Throwing Knives (Ohio State University Press), and My Life With Darwin(Houghton Mifflin). Dr. Tinsley's short fiction has been anthologized in the Pushcart Prize Anthology and New Stories from the South, and appeared in journals and periodicals such as Shenandoah, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, and Redbook Magazine. Her plays have been read or staged nationwide, from Seattle, to Houston, New York City, and Washington DC. A former professor of English at the United States Naval Academy, Molly is recognized as the first professor emerita in its history and is an established author of fiction, nonfiction, and drama.
For further information go to the website www.willamettewriters.com/1/southernoregon.php or contact Phil Messina at soww77@gmail.com.
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