About Kelly DuMar
A poet, playwright, and engaging workshop leader, Kelly guides new and experienced writers to generate writing across genre. Kelly’s fourth poetry collection will be published in January, 2023, by Lily Press. For three decades, Kelly has been an energetic leader in innovative programming for writing organizations, including Playwrights’ Platform, Boston, The International Women’s Writing Guild, and the Transformative Language Arts Network, where she currently serves on the Board and faculty. Kelly founded and produced the Our Voices Festival for Women Playwrights at Wellesley College for twelve years.
Kelly’s poems and photos are published in many literary journals, including Bellevue Literary Review, On The Seawall, Tupelo Quarterly, Thrush, Glassworks, Flock and more. Her plays are published by dramatic publishers. She has blogged her nature photos and creative writing from the Charles River (where she lives) daily, for the past six years. Read her work here.
Introductory Workshop:
The photos we save and the photos we take show what we care about and hope to preserve, what moves and inspires us, the people, places, stories and experiences that bring meaning into our lives. In this introductory workshop, you will write creatively from a travel-themed personal photo. It may be from your Fulbright experience abroad, or recent or past photo from any journey you have taken in your life. You’ve captured your adventures in images––it’s time to take them out and let them spark your creativity through writing. Bring 1-3 personal travel photos to write from.
This free, virtual workshop is an introduction to the five-week virtual course which follows.
Date: Thursday, September 22, 2022
Time: 7:00 p.m. – 8:15 p.m. (CST) (GMT-5)
Capacity: 15
Register for this free workshop here.
Five-Week Course:
Dates: Thursday Oct. 6 & 20, Nov. 3 & 17 & Dec. 1, 2022
Time: 7:00-9:-00 p.m. (CST), on Zoom
Cost: EARLY BIRD by Sept. 26, 2022, $195; then after, $250
You’ve captured your adventures in images––it’s time to take them out and let them spark your creativity through writing. In this five-session course, Kelly will guide you to generate dynamic writing from your Fulbright experience photos or other personal travel photos. Writing from photos allows us to approach our pictures as works of art––no matter the quality of the photo, we can approach them with an artist’s perception and awareness of powerful hidden meanings and revelations worthy of development into creative prose and poetry.
Writing from personal photos allows us to capture our memories and discoveries, connect with beauty and probe the deeper meaning of an image for new awareness. The writing generated in this workshop will give voice to your travel experiences that will be personally satisfying and engaging for others.
Each participant will bring personal travel photos weekly. Whether you’re writing poetry or prose, memoir or a blog, family history or a monologue, your personal photos will be an excellent prompt to compelling writing, and we’ll attend to the process of revision and the development of craft.
Register for the five-session course EARLY BIRD TICKETS before September 26, 2022, here.
Register for the five-session course after September 26, 2022, here.
Refund policy: Purchases and payment Processing fees are non-refundable.