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New Year Writing Workshops

The Southwest Festival of the Written Word is sponsoring two writing workshops to start the new year. Both will be at the Silver City Public Library, 515 W.College Avenue on the corner of College and Cooper Street in Silver City.

 

Start the Year Write
Monday, January 6, 2:30-4:30pm

Have you always wanted to write that memoir, novel, or short story? Join us to brainstorm ideas, map out an arc, set some writing goals, and maybe find your supportive writing community. Facilitator Kendra Griffin is a creative writing professor at Aims Community College in Colorado.

 

Make ‘Em Laugh: Injecting Humor into Your Writing
Monday, January 13, 3:30pm

Kris Neri

Kris Neri will explain how humor functions and will share the most effective humor writing tools, demonstrating them with real examples that she will deconstruct to reveal why they are funny, as well as providing general guidelines for the use of humor. Kris Neri’s published novels have been nominated for such prestigious awards as the Agatha, Anthony, Macavity, International Book Award, and the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award; three of her novels were Lefty Award nominees for their humor. Her latest magical mystery, Magical Alienation, won the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award.

Disclaimer:
The views expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Southwest Word Fiesta™ or its steering committee.

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