Workshop with Elain Neil Orr
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We are thrilled to have Elaine Neil Orr bring her workshop to the store. Cost is $5 upon arrival. Please RSVP.
Topic: "Shape Your Writing By Thinking Outside the Box: How to Get Started"
Acclaimed NC novelist Elaine Neil Orr will lead participants in making a clay sculpture of something that inspires them, from fast-drying clay (provided.) A sculpture inspired the main character in Elaine's newest novel, DANCING WOMAN. Elaine will speak about how using one art form or exercise can open a door for writers to get started, even if you don’t quite know what you want to write. In this case, using a sculpture can lead to finding a beginning in your prose.
Elaine Neil Orr is the author of six books and dozens of essays, short stories, poems, and
reviews. Her current novel, Dancing Woman (Blair), was a finalist for the Sir Walter Raleigh
Award, was named a silver medalist in the May Sarton Awards for historical fiction, and is
currently a Foreword Indie Award Finalist for literary fiction. Her earlier books include the
novels A Different Sun and Swimming Between Worlds, Finalist for the 2019 Phillip H. McMath
Post-Publication Book Award in Fiction and longlisted for the Clara Johnson Award for Women’s
Literature. She is also the author of a memoir, Gods of Noonday, a White Girl’s African Life. She
was born and grew up in Nigeria, the daughter of ex-pat parents. All of her creative writing is
compelled by one idea: the search for home. She is professor of English at N.C. State
University and serves on the faculty of the Naslund-Mann Brief-Residency MFA in Writing
Program at Spalding University in Louisville. She lives in Raleigh with her husband, Andy. Learn
more at elaineneilorr.com
Topic: "Shape Your Writing By Thinking Outside the Box: How to Get Started"
Acclaimed NC novelist Elaine Neil Orr will lead participants in making a clay sculpture of something that inspires them, from fast-drying clay (provided.) A sculpture inspired the main character in Elaine's newest novel, DANCING WOMAN. Elaine will speak about how using one art form or exercise can open a door for writers to get started, even if you don’t quite know what you want to write. In this case, using a sculpture can lead to finding a beginning in your prose.
Elaine Neil Orr is the author of six books and dozens of essays, short stories, poems, and
reviews. Her current novel, Dancing Woman (Blair), was a finalist for the Sir Walter Raleigh
Award, was named a silver medalist in the May Sarton Awards for historical fiction, and is
currently a Foreword Indie Award Finalist for literary fiction. Her earlier books include the
novels A Different Sun and Swimming Between Worlds, Finalist for the 2019 Phillip H. McMath
Post-Publication Book Award in Fiction and longlisted for the Clara Johnson Award for Women’s
Literature. She is also the author of a memoir, Gods of Noonday, a White Girl’s African Life. She
was born and grew up in Nigeria, the daughter of ex-pat parents. All of her creative writing is
compelled by one idea: the search for home. She is professor of English at N.C. State
University and serves on the faculty of the Naslund-Mann Brief-Residency MFA in Writing
Program at Spalding University in Louisville. She lives in Raleigh with her husband, Andy. Learn
more at elaineneilorr.com
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415 Brooks Street, Wake Forest, NC, United States, North Carolina 27587
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