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How to Write Characters Who Live and Breathe with Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond (via Zoom)


“Don’t write about a character. Become that character, and then write your story.” –Ethan Canin
What does it take to create characters so real you can almost feel their presence as you read?
In this 4-hour workshop, through group examination of the characters in Oyinkan Braithwaite’s
My Sister, the Serial Killer (excerpts will be provided), we will:
  • Review the character types and archetypes who populate most narratives
  • Discuss characters who don’t breathe i.e. the entities in a story that are not living, but take on a life of their own
  • Learn how to create and develop characters of our own through a series of written exercises
  • Share our writing for on the spot feedback

Registration for this 4hour intensive class is $124. Please register at:
www.writerscenter.org/calendar/charactersbrewhammond/

Scholarship information for this class will be released in August.

This class will be taught via Zoom. The Zoom link will be emailed immediately at the time of registration and again in the day before the class. Please check spam / promotions folder and email admin@writerscenter.org with questions.

Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond is the author of Powder Necklace, which Publishers Weekly called “a winning debut.” Named to the “Africa39” list of writers “with the potential and talent to define trends in the development of literature from Sub-Saharan Africa and the diaspora,” her short fiction was included in the anthology Africa39. Her work also appears in Everyday People: The Color of Life, New Daughters of Africa, and Accra Noir among others. Forthcoming from Brew-Hammond are a children’s picture book, a novel, and an anthology. Brew-Hammond was a 2019 Edward F. Albee Foundation Fellow, a 2018 Aké Arts and Book Festival Guest Author, a 2017 Aspen Ideas Festival Scholar, a 2016 Hedgebrook Writer-in-Residence, and a 2015 Rhode Island Writers Colony Writer-in-Residence. Every month, Brew-Hammond co-leads a writing fellowship whose mission is to write light into the darkness.

Event Location and Ticket Information

Date: Saturday, September 11, 2021
Times: 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm

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Presenter: Hudson Valley Writers Center
Presenter Phone: 9143325953