Tell Me a Story: A Spectrum of Narrative from
Poetry to Prose

New Workshop with Chad Frame

Workshop Description:

This workshop will explore narrative in poetry and beyond. We will discuss story structure, action, and dialogue in narrative poems and then gradually move into more hybrid forms -- prose poetry, novels in verse, and flash fiction. How are these different from one another? What is each best at doing, and how do we determine which is best suited for a given idea? We'll also look at excerpts from more traditional novels with poetic sensibilities (read: written by poets), and discuss how being an agile, more well-rounded writer who works across multiple genres strengthens our ability across all of them. From poetry, we learn metaphor, craft, literary devices, vulnerability, and emotion, all of which can inform prose. From fiction, we learn character, pacing, narrative arc, perspective, and genre conventions, all of which can inform poetry. Class will consist of guided discussion of poems and passages, writing prompts to generate new work, and workshopping of new and existing work.

Workshop Details:

Winter 2025
Four sessions with Chad Frame on Zoom
Wednesday evening from 7:30 to 9:30 PM (ET)
Dates: January 15, 22, 29, February 5
$190
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Workshop Facilitator:

Chad Frame is the author of of Little Black Book, nominated for the Lambda Literary Award, and Smoking Shelter, winner of the Moonstone Chapbook Contest. He is the Director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program, a Poet Laureate Emeritus of Montgomery County, PA, a founding member of the No River Twice poetry/improv performance troupe, and the founder of the Caesura Poetry Festival. His work appears in Rattle, Strange Horizons, Pedestal, Barrelhouse, Rust+Moth, on iTunes from the Library of Congress, and is archived on the moon with The Lunar Codex. Chad has taught poetry and prose workshops at Rosemont College, Arcadia University, In the Company of Laureates, the Caesura Poetry Festival, the Philadelphia Writers' Conference, Main Line School Nights, the Arts & Cultural Council of Bucks County, and many more venues.

Questions: editors@riverheronreview.com

Discount: RHR Discount does not apply to this workshop.

Refunds: Up to one week prior to the workshop start date, full refund minus $15 processing fee. After that time, there are no refunds.

Workshop sessions are not recorded, nor are there make up sessions.