To Find the Music of Your Heart, Find the Rhythms of Your Prose: A Writing Lab with David James Duncan
Join us January 28th for this lab with celebrated author David James Duncan, who writes: “It has long seemed to me that every language is a living animal; that its heart beats and lungs empty and fill, same as ours; and that its breath and pulse are perhaps the most helpful companions we have when lost in our work. I will begin our workshop by carefully dissecting a few passages from A River Runs Through It, by Norman Maclean, to illustrate ways rhythms can lead to prose possessed of ‘a full heart.’ We will look at how rhythmic prose can serve spiritual purposes by tapping into litany, chants, prayers, mythology, and wonder tales.” This live, participatory lab will include exercises for generative writing and a moderated Q&A.
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
4-5:30pm Pacific Time
Live online
This is a live, participatory lab and it will not be recorded. A meeting link will be emailed a few days prior to the lab. Cancellations must be made 48 hours prior to the lab and will be charged a $10 cancellation fee. Partial scholarships may be available; contact us to apply.
Join us January 28th for this lab with celebrated author David James Duncan, who writes: “It has long seemed to me that every language is a living animal; that its heart beats and lungs empty and fill, same as ours; and that its breath and pulse are perhaps the most helpful companions we have when lost in our work. I will begin our workshop by carefully dissecting a few passages from A River Runs Through It, by Norman Maclean, to illustrate ways rhythms can lead to prose possessed of ‘a full heart.’ We will look at how rhythmic prose can serve spiritual purposes by tapping into litany, chants, prayers, mythology, and wonder tales.” This live, participatory lab will include exercises for generative writing and a moderated Q&A.
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
4-5:30pm Pacific Time
Live online
This is a live, participatory lab and it will not be recorded. A meeting link will be emailed a few days prior to the lab. Cancellations must be made 48 hours prior to the lab and will be charged a $10 cancellation fee. Partial scholarships may be available; contact us to apply.
Join us January 28th for this lab with celebrated author David James Duncan, who writes: “It has long seemed to me that every language is a living animal; that its heart beats and lungs empty and fill, same as ours; and that its breath and pulse are perhaps the most helpful companions we have when lost in our work. I will begin our workshop by carefully dissecting a few passages from A River Runs Through It, by Norman Maclean, to illustrate ways rhythms can lead to prose possessed of ‘a full heart.’ We will look at how rhythmic prose can serve spiritual purposes by tapping into litany, chants, prayers, mythology, and wonder tales.” This live, participatory lab will include exercises for generative writing and a moderated Q&A.
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
4-5:30pm Pacific Time
Live online
This is a live, participatory lab and it will not be recorded. A meeting link will be emailed a few days prior to the lab. Cancellations must be made 48 hours prior to the lab and will be charged a $10 cancellation fee. Partial scholarships may be available; contact us to apply.
David James Duncan is the author of the classic novels The River Why and The Brothers K, the story collection River Teeth, the nonfiction collection and National Book Award finalist, My Story as Told by Water, the best-selling collection of “churchless sermons," God Laughs & Plays, and, this August 8th, the novel legendary editor Michael Pietsch “will immodestly call David’s magnum opus” and writer William deBuys calls “one of the greatest imaginative achievements I’ve encountered in a lifetime of reading," Sun House. David’s work has won three Pacific Northwest Booksellers Awards, two Pushcart Prizes, a Lannan Fellowship, the Western States Book Award, inclusion in Best American Sports Writing, Best American Catholic Writing, two volumes of Best American Essays, five volumes of Best American Spiritual Writing, an honorary doctorate from University of Portland, the American Library Association's 2004 Award for the Preservation of Intellectual Freedom (with co-author Wendell Berry), and other honors. David lives on a charming little trout stream in Missoula, Montana, in accord with his late friend Jim Harrison’s advice to finish his life disguised as a creek.