Chautauqua Writers’ Center

Allison Joseph to discuss importance of persistence in writing, life, in Brown Bag

by Chris Clements on August 4, 2020

Persistence. In short, that’s what Allison Joseph wants to instill in her virtual lecture audience: persistence in writing, despite any and all of the obstacles blocking your path. Joseph “Those challenges can be having lost

Hilary Plum, Allison Joseph to give reading, workshops on the subjectivity of illness, struggling through loss

by Chris Clements on August 2, 2020

Like many people right now, Allison Joseph has found herself on the cusp of a former life and a current

In Brown Bag, Charlotte Matthews to ask audience ‘what can we find around us?’ to enhance writing

by Chris Clements on July 31, 2020

During her tenure as the Chautauqua Writers’ Center’s Week Five prose writer-in-residence, Charlotte Matthews said she’ll be asking writers and

Philip Metres to peer into ‘how our writing changes and how we’re changed by our writing’ in Brown Bag

by Chris Clements on July 28, 2020

Philip Metres thinks of being an author as embarking on a journey. Metres “We need to reflect on this process

Charlotte Matthews and Philip Metres to talk observation, cultural intervention in workshops

by Chris Clements on July 25, 2020

Charlotte Matthews doesn’t believe Chautauqua is made up only of Bestor Plaza, the Amphitheater or the Hall of Philosophy —

Janice Eidus to encourage authors to find their own voices in workshops

by Chris Clements on July 19, 2020

Janice Eidus’ short fiction tends to operate on many different levels. Eidus In particular, her short story “Davida’s Own,” part of the collection Vito Loves Geraldine, is about “the ocean as a symbol of family,

Henderson to interrogate authorial power, privilege in Brown Bag craft talk

by Chris Clements on July 17, 2020

There’s an argument in American literary circles about who gets to write about whom — an argument that, in the

In Brown Bag, Gabrielle Calvocoressi to argue ‘the dumpster fires of one’s life are how the great poems come’

by Chris Clements on July 14, 2020

Calvocoressi Gabrielle Calvocoressi is fascinated by a deeply human concept called the “beautiful terrible” — those little moments of bliss

Eleanor Henderson and Gabrielle Calvocoressi to investigate privilege in point-of-view and poetry ghosts in workshops

by Chris Clements on July 12, 2020

From the time she was little, Eleanor Henderson said she always wanted to write stories. “I would tell stories, and

In Brown Bag, Chautauqua writer-in-residence Jacob White to encourage granularity in the writing process

by Chris Clements on July 10, 2020

White There’s no limit to your imagination? Jacob White disagrees. “The idea that our imagination is infinite is a kind

In Brown Bag, Mary Biddinger to give lecture on ‘what it’s like to write now’

by Chris Clements on July 7, 2020

Biddinger One day, Mary Biddinger went for a walk and thought she saw a beautiful swan laying in the grass. “And I was like, ‘Wow, look at this little swan!’ but it was actually just

‘Borne back ceaselessly into the past’: Mary Biddinger and Jacob White to investigate theme of nostalgia and social reckoning in workshops

by Chris Clements on July 5, 2020

White & Biddinger In Greek, the word nostalgia is a compound formed by “nostos,” meaning a return home, and “algos,”

Giffels to promote writing stories of ‘endurance through difficulty’ in Brown Bag

by Chris Clements on July 3, 2020

What does it mean to be “from” somewhere? And how does that influence a person’s writing style and content? Giffels

Poet-in-residence Lillian-Yvonne Bertram to give Brown Bag lecture on the importance of social settings in poetry

by Chris Clements on June 30, 2020

Bertram Lillian-Yvonne Bertram was 10 years old when they realized something crucial about language and words, something that would go

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and David Giffels to highlight the importance of place in workshops

by Chris Clements on June 27, 2020

In Lillian-Yvonne Bertram’s estimation, “home” is a concept that writers can toy with, challenge and investigate in their work —

In Final Workshops, Adrian Matejka and Beth Loffreda to Explore Voice and Inheritance

by Amy Guay on August 16, 2019

Matejka Loffreda No matter how integral the concept of voice is to Adrian Matejka, Indiana’s poet laureate is grateful that there is a difference between his voice “in the world” and the voices that animate

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