Genre-bending Fun: A writing workshop with Lynn Jenner
286 Te Moana Rd, Waikanae, Kapiti Coast
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The aim of the workshop is to find out if choosing a few theme words and using them as part of the structure of a story, might be a useful addition for your bag of writerly tools and tricks. In the workshop, we’ll look at how some writers have used theme words, or repeated words, to tell a story. Poets often say that using the constraints imposed by a particular form, for example, the repeated word pattern of a sestina, helps their imagination go to places it might not find otherwise.
We’ll try out using chosen theme words to write a story to see how that changes the way it feels to write it and read it. We’ll also try writing a draft and then choosing some keywords from that. The story you work on in the workshop could be non-fiction, like an essay or some memoir, or it could be a bit of genre-fluid prose. It could also be fiction. If you like rules and patterns, you could try a prose sestina, or you can make up your own rules. If you’re a non-fiction writer and you’ve never heard of a sestina, or you thought it was too complicated to bother with, come along and see what the fuss is about. If you’re a poet, and you write essays or memoirs, come and try out one way the genres can fuel each other.
Facilitated by writer, Lynn Jenner
Lynn Jenner is a writer and teacher of writing. She has published three books. The most recent, 'Peat' (OUP, 2019), is a set of essays and poetic glossaries about the New Zealand poet and founder of Landfall, Charles Brasch and the construction of an Expressway through the Kāpiti Coast. Previous books are 'Lost and Gone Away' (AUP, 2015) which was shortlisted in the Ockham Awards Non-Fiction section in 2016, and 'Dear Sweet Harry' (AUP, 2010), which won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book of Poetry prize in 2011. Lynn has a PhD from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Te Herenga Waka. Currently Lynn mentors writers, and reviews manuscripts.
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