Deschutes Public Library

Chickens and Egg, with Ellen Waterston

Label
Chickens and Egg, with Ellen Waterston
Language
eng
Main title
Chickens and Egg
resource.otherEventInformation
Online presentation by Deschutes Public Library on April 13, 2021
Responsibility statement
with Ellen Waterston
Series statement
DPL YouTube, April 2021
Summary
In this meeting of the Central Oregon Writers Guild, high desert author and poet Ellen Waterston explores what comes first, the chicken (what wants telling) or the egg (the style, genre or form that contains it). Poetry? Prose? Fiction? Nonfiction? What genre, within the medium of writing, and what form, what style within the genre, best befits the message? To what extent does the "message" wag the form and style? With the lines between genres, forms and styles more and more blurry, writers have unlimited creative liberty. A writing prompt allows participants to experiment with this freedom
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