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Abby Wasserman
Literary Arts
Fierce Attachment to Truth: Writing from Experience
LAURA FRASER
Sunday, August 8.
1 to 4 p.m.
$100, $80 OHCA Members.
Writing is a process of clarifying your thoughts and feelings until you can express them in the cleanest way possible. Once you strip away the excess and get down to the bones of what you want to say, you discover simple truths about yourself—and you become a better writer, more able to communicate your truths with others. In this workshop, Laura will lead you through exercises using poetry and examples from fiction and non-fiction, as well as writing prompts, that will transform free writing into storytelling and narrative structure, and will help clarify your meaning. RSVP by Thursday, August 5 to save your space.
Laura Fraser has taught writing at the University of California at Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, Aspen Summer Words, Harvard’s Neiman Seminars in Narrative Nonfiction, the A Room of Her Own Foundation, the San Miguel de Allende Writers’ Conference, and Esalen. She is the author of the New York times-bestselling travel memoir, An Italian Affair, and most recently, All Over the Map. She has written hundreds of articles for national magazines, including the New York Times, Gourmet, Afar, O the Oprah Magazine, More, Wired, Tricycle, and many others.
Wednesday Evening Writing Group
ABBY WASSERMAN
Wednesdays, September 15, 29.
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
6 session fee: $120, $108 OHCA members.
Single sessions $24 by appointment only.
For writers working on long term projects such as memoirs and novels.
Thursday Writing Groups
ABBY WASSERMAN
Thursdays, September 16, 23, 30.
10 a.m. to noon OR 2 to 4 p.m.
8-session fee: $160, $144 OHCA members.
Single sessions $24 by appointment only.
A supportive and challenging environment to deepen writers’ abilities to take risks. Join us to write close to the bone and from the heart. For all kinds of prose writers (journal, essay, memoir, fiction). We give a public reading each May.
Abby Wasserman is a writer and artist in the San Francisco Bay Area and former editor-in-chief of the Oakland Museum of California's quarterly magazine. Now freelance, she facilitates writing groups, exhibits her art, works on editorial projects and is at work on several books. Her publications include The Spirit of Oakland, a multicultural history of Oakland, California, Portfolio, essays on 11 Native American artists, and Praise, Vilification & Sexual Innuendo, or How to Be a Critic: The Selected Writings of John L. Wasserman. Abby has also written a series of Children's Books.
Haiku Workshop
DAVID GRAYSON
Thursday, September 23.
7 to 9 p.m.
$22, $20 members.
Join us on the first day of autumn for to learn about haiku and how you can use the form to express yourself, tell stories, and more. The class consists of guidelines and tips for writing haiku, and in-class writing exercises. This class is for everyone--the true beginner (with no prior writing experience) as well as for more experienced writers who want to learn more about the form. RSVP by Friday, September 17 to save your space.