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Madelaine Lucas: Writing Dynamic Relationships
Heritage Collections Learning Room, slq
Workshop
MAS001
#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 180 minutes
Join Madelaine Lucas, author of the debut novel Thirst for Salt and a professor of creative writing at Columbia University, New York, for an interactive workshop on how to craft dynamic relationships in fiction and memoir. In this generative three-hour session, we will examine the textures and tensions of relationships between strangers, lovers and family members. Through targeted prompts and exercises, writers will begin to create their own compelling portraits of intimacy and learn how to use the tools of our craft—such as voice, form and sensory detail—to avoid familiar scripts when depicting romantic or familial bonds and bring relationships to life on the page. This workshop is open to prose writers at all stages of their practice and participants will be encouraged to share their responses to in-class writing exercises with the group.
In this workshop, participants will learn how to:
- Create compelling relationships in fiction or memoir that resonate with readers
- Bring complexity and specificity to depictions of intimacy between strangers, lovers and family members
- Develop a deeper understanding of character dynamics through targeted craft exercises
- Experiment with voice, form and sensory detail
- Use personal experience as a jumping off point for generating new material
#Artist
Madelaine Lucas
Madelaine Lucas is the author of the debut novel Thirst for Salt and a senior editor of the literary annual NOON. Born in Melbourne and raised in Sydney, she moved to New York in 2015 to complete her MFA at Columbia University, where she now teaches in the graduate writing program. Her writing has been awarded the Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, and appeared in publications such as The Guardian, The Believer, Literary Hub and BOMB. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and her dog.
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