Saturday Morning Writer's Clinic

Two local writers will make presentations for other writers on Saturday, Feb. 8, at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon, Metairie. 

The sessions – for beginners or experienced writers – are free of charge and open to the public. There is no registration.

9:30 a.m. – Saturday, Feb. 8

“Revisiting Point of View” – Reine Dugas

Point of view is the narrator's position in relation to the story: First person – the narrator and protagonist are the same. Second person point of view– very rare and hard to pull off. Third person – an 'off-page' narrator relates a story about your characters. Reine Dugas explains it all.

Reine Dugas is from New Orleans and teaches English at Southeastern Louisiana University and Tulane University. She’s taken students to Italy for several years with Southeastern’s study abroad program, and has been a faculty member with the University of New Orleans Writing Workshop in Cork, Ireland and the Montpellier, France program. She is Assistant Editor of Nonfiction for Louisiana Literature and Editor-in-Chief of Hot Redhead Media. Recently, she joined Heather Fowler as cohost for the podcast, “Booktails”—a show about authors, craft and cocktails. She's Executive Editor of New Orleans' Where Y'at Magazine.

11 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 8

“How Craft Compelling Characters” with Annell Lopez

Workshop participants will learn how to develop characters with believable flaws, clear motivations, complex inner conflicts, a well-defined backstory, and the ability to evolve and surprise the reader, ensuring they feel like real people with desires, fears, and vulnerabilities that drive their actions throughout the story.

Annell López is the winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize and the author of the short story collection I’ll Give You a Reason from the Feminist Press. A Peter Taylor Fellow at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshops, her work has received support from Tin House and has appeared in Guernica, American Short Fiction, Michigan Quarterly Review, Brooklyn Rail, Refinery29 and elsewhere. López received her MFA from the University of New Orleans. She is working on a novel.

For more information regarding this presentation, contact Chris Smith, Manager of Adult Programming for the library, at 504-889-8143 or wcsmith@jefferson.lib.la.us.