Fictioneering the Non-Fictiony: Experimental Writing Games to Bend Lived Experiences into Fiction with Justin Noga
 
Fictioneering the Non-Fictiony: Experimental Writing Games to Bend Lived Experiences into Fiction with Justin Noga
06/01/2019
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Mesa
Course Details

Offered in Partnership with the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing and KJZZ Arizona StoryFest and Author Showcase


Fictioneering the Non-Fictiony: Experimental Writing Games to Bend Lived Experiences into Fiction with Justin Noga


Course Description: 

Your falling-out with a best friend from childhood. Your family’s buffoonery in a public setting. Your perceptions of sex last year, ten years back, twenty years back. These are all gems of our lives that, with a little snip or suture, can become springboards for fictions with real resonance. In this generative short workshop, we will use a series of experimental and collaborative writing games to mine out moments from our own lives—half-remembered or not—which we will bend and stretch and snap and reshape into fictions wholly their own. By allowing ourselves to shift these realities, we can harness the emotional energies of those old memories, and breathe new life into them.

 

Duration: 

1.5 Hours

 

Genre Type:

Fiction, Generative Writing, Flash, Novels, Short Stories,

 

Course Type: 

Generative Workshop

 

Course Level 

Beginner/Beginner-Intermediate

 

Dates and Times: 

Saturday, June 1, 2019

10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

 

Pricing: 

$0.00

 

Course Cap 

50

 

Instructor Biography: 

Justin Noga is a fiction writer from Akron, Ohio, and is a second-year MFA student at Arizona State University. He teaches composition and creative writing at ASU, taught for the Piper Writers Studio at the Virginia G Piper Center for Creative Writing in Summer 2018, and was the recipient of the 2018 Virginia G. Piper Global Teaching Fellowship for the National University of Singapore. His work has been published in Conjunctions. He lives with a whippet/terrier with a Napoleon complex.