Mendocino Coast Writers Conference
STORYCATCHING THROUGH SETTING
Eudora Welty said, “Place is one of the lesser angels that watch over the racing hand of fiction.” With theses words from Eudora in mind, this workshop with Kerry Madden-Lunsford will focus on discovering place as character and how a strong sense of setting breathes both life and voice into our writing. Kerry will present the tools she used when storycatching in the South for her novels, including research, excavated old pictures and documents from the Courthouse in Monroeville, Alabama, as well as film clips from recent documentaries and feature films. In this part lecture, part creative workshop, you’ll explore your own sense of place to catch stories and writing ideas.
Southern Kentucky Book Festival
Every morning, Ernestine shouts out her window to the Great Smoky Mountains, “I’m five years old and a big girl!” When Mama asks Ernestine–who helps with chores around the farm while Papa is away at war–to carry two mason jars filled with milk to their neighbor, Ernestine isn’t sure she can do it. After all, she’d need to walk through thickets of crabapple and blackberry by the creek, not to mention past vines of climbing bittersweet. But Ernestine is five years old and a big girl, so off she sets. Along the way, one mason jar slips from her arms and rolls down the mountainside into the river, and Ernestine is sure it’s lost forever . . . until her neighbor’s son shows up with a muddy jar–and there’s a surprise inside! With tons of flavor and a can-do spirit, here is a celebration of American history and a plucky girl who knows that helping a family in need is worth the trouble - SOKY