Revision: Curation for Optimized Artistry In-Person
Breakout Session 4 for the "To Taste Life Twice" Seminar. Pre-registration is required.
Revision: Curation for Optimized Artistry
Instructor: Alan Heathcock
Though there certainly are objective concepts of quality, all revision must be passed through the sensibilities of an individual artist. How do we know what to keep and what to cut? How do we improve characterization, setting, our sentences, our dialog and plots, and add depth and relevance to what we write? This workshop will take attendees through a comprehensive interrogation of revision, using discussions and exercises to clarify the idea of "curation" as the basis for defining subjective standards of quality for each writer and each new project.
Alan Heathcock is a Boise-based writer of short stories and novels, winner of a Whiting Award, the GLCA New Writers Award, a National Magazine Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Lannan Foundation, and the Idaho Commission on the Arts.
Learn more about the three-day "To Taste Life Twice" Seminar here.
- Date:
- Saturday, May 20, 2023
- Time:
- 1:00pm - 4:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Mountain Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Learning Commons Conference Room
- Campus:
- The Community Library
- Audience:
- Adults
- Categories:
- Classes & Discussions