Intensity
Seminar with award-winning author
& outstanding lecturer,
Ilana Blumberg
June 21, 09:30-15:00
How do we write about events that are startling in their intensity without writing in overblown, melodramatic or insufficiently powerful language?
How can we capture in words experiences that seem to elude our attempts to represent them? Such experiences might be joyous, painful, enraging, beautiful, surreal. In this workshop, we will approach such moments of intensity as particular writing challenges and look at literary models that grapple with these challenges in different ways. Writing exercises will offer opportunities to consider how style and story (form and content) work together. Readings may include excerpts from Wave, by Sonali Deraniyagala; The Little Virtues, by Natalia Ginzburg; At the Bottom of the River, Jamaica Kincaid; Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf. Details:Minimum/Maximum No. Participants: 8/14
Cost: 490 NIS in advance, 550 NIS on the door (if places still available). This includes light snacks and tea/coffee, bread & dips. Location: Talbiya, Jerusalem (more details upon registration). Registration: Sign up below and we will be in touch. Payment can be made via bank transfer, cheque/check or cash (by special arrangement). Cancellation policy: If you cancel within one week of the class and your place cannot be filled, you will be asked to cover the total cost of the seminar. |
Ilana Blumberg is the Director of the Shaindy Rudoff Program in Creative Writing at Bar-Ilan University where she teaches creative nonfiction. She is the author of Houses of Study: a Jewish Woman among Books (U. Nebraska Press, 2007; Bison Books, 2009), winner of the 2007 Sami Rohr Choice Award and finalist for both the National Jewish Book Award in Women's Studies and the Moment Magazine Award for Emerging Writers. She is the author of the scholarly monograph Victorian Sacrifice: Ethics and Economics in Mid-Century Novels (Ohio State UP, 2015) and has published widely on Victorian literature. Ilana won teaching awards from the University of Pennsylvania and Michigan State University before joining the English Department of Bar Ilan University in 2014. She lives in Jerusalem with her family.
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Previously taught by Ilana Blumberg - How We Came To Be Ourselves: Writing Autobiography & Writing Memoir: Place and Person, Putting it All Together.
Testimonials:
'I highly recommend taking Ilana's workshops. She gives a great balance between looking at well-written and published pieces while encouraging the participants to discover and generate their own ideas.' - Anna
'I have had a lot on my mind these past few months and it was cathartic for me get a new perspective through the contributions and insights delivered in this seminar. Ilana is a marvelous moderator and without exception I believed in my fellow attendees' stories while empathizing and sharing tears and laughter.'
- Lynn
Testimonials:
'I highly recommend taking Ilana's workshops. She gives a great balance between looking at well-written and published pieces while encouraging the participants to discover and generate their own ideas.' - Anna
'I have had a lot on my mind these past few months and it was cathartic for me get a new perspective through the contributions and insights delivered in this seminar. Ilana is a marvelous moderator and without exception I believed in my fellow attendees' stories while empathizing and sharing tears and laughter.'
- Lynn
