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This is a workshop about incorporating writing into our busy lives: how to keep the words coming, whether poetry, fiction, or nonfiction; exercises to sharpen skills of observation; openings and closings. The creation of memoir and its rewards, syntax, tone, flashbacks, and the centrality of yearning. The value of timelines, recognizing soft underbellies, and feeding the muse. We will come away excited about language.
A creative writing seminar, tailored to its audience in any city where Cauthen has events--or cities nearby. See EVENTS/UPDATES for scheduling. Ideally, this seminar meets from 7-9 p.m. on a weekday evening; it requires a minimum of ten and a maximum of 20 participants and costs $25 per person.
The evening is organized as lecture/break/discussion/summation. Each participant gains perspective on the genre "memoir" and creates a prospectus setting out specific tasks that must be accomplished in constructing the book from start to finish.
Please see Events for a current list of cities and dates and feel free to inquire further.
COST: $25 per person.
ORGANIZATION: Lecture, Break, Discussion, Summation.
GOALS: Participants come away seeing the collecting of oral history within the larger tradition, i.e., Federal Writers Program, WPA, etc. We will look at Folklife, Work, and Connections to Place, Learn oral history’s unique contribution to the Humanities, Review the specifics of Ethics, Recording, Transcription, Interviewing, Editing, Storage, and Use.
To engage Cauthen as a speaker or as a consultant to arts/humanities projects (Southern Studies, exhibits, literary projects, oral history collection, folklore, etc.), write to her at cauthen4196@earthlink.net at NFCDS, 15295 SE 100th Way, White Springs, FL-32096; or call 386-397-1284.
Past clients include the Asolo Repertory Theatre, Florida Museum of Natural History, Alachua County Schools, Brevard County Schools, Hillsborough County Schools, Marion County Schools, Pinecastle Center of the Arts, The Art Center at Maitland, Florida Humanities Council, Florida Historical Society, and The Smithsonian Institution.
Cauthen has taught writing at Florida State University, The University of Central Florida, Lake City Community College, North Florida Community College, at art centers, and in both Fiction- and Poetry-in-the-Schools Programs. She studied writing with Andrew Lytle, Harry Crews, Mary Lee Settle, Doris Grumbach, and Blanche Boyd.
Cauthen earned a Master of Arts in Southern Studies from The Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi. SOUTHERN COMFORTS: Rooted in a Florida Place (University of Georgia Press) is her first book. Recognition of her work includes: prizes for poetry, nonfiction, and fiction; two State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship in Literature, and a Human Rights Award from the Baha’i Spiritual Assembly of Greater Gainesville.