2022 North
Country Writers’ Day
May 6, 2022
White Mountains Community
College
All events are free and open
to the public, ages 13 and older. Registration required. Space is limited for
Master Class. These events are made possible due to the generous support of the
Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund and the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation.
EVENT
#1:
Master Class on Mindful
Writing: How to Reduce Writing Problems through the Present Moment
2-4
PM
May
6, 2022
White
Mountains Community College
In-Person and Virtual
Room
Location T.B.A.
Writing can become much more
fulfilling and joyful if we think of it as happening right Now. Whenever we
overlook the present moment, we give up rewarding writing experiences in
exchange for stress, procrastination, boredom, and shortchanged creativity.
It’s a poor bargain. This interactive session focuses on how to use mindful
writing techniques to write with more peace and productivity. We cover the
basics of mindful writing, including impermanence, audience ghosts, monkey
mind, and preconceptions about our writing ability. Participants gain hands-on
practice with several mindful writing techniques. Geared for participants ages
13 and older, this master class is designed for people who occasionally or
often struggle with writing, who teach writing, as well as for participants who
don’t struggle with a writing block but are interested in picking up skills. The
strategies apply to creative, academic, professional, and personal kinds of
writing.
About the Presenter:
Alexandria Peary (MFA, MFA, PhD)
specializes in mindful writing. She is the author of Prolific Moment: Theory and Practice of Mindfulness for Writing as
well as the architect and host of the mindful writing webinar for the National
Council of Teachers of English. Alex is a frequent presenter on mindful writing
for New Hampshire Humanities and has also presented on mindful writing for the
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), NH Children’s Trust, and as the 2021
keynote address for the Secondary School Writing Centers Association
Conference. Her 2019 TEDx talk “How Mindfulness Can
Transform the Way You Write” can be
found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yxnFac7CNA Alex is a professor
in the English Department at Salem State University where she teaches
undergraduate and graduate courses on creative writing and mindful writing.
To
register by Apri 10: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/master-class-on-mindful-writing-tickets-262683081167
EVENT
#2:
Book Signing and Reading with NH State
Poet Laureate
4-5 PM
May 6, 2022
White Mountains
Community College
In-Person and Virtual
Room Location
T.B.A.
Alexandria Peary
will read from her new book of poems, Battle
of Silicon Valley at Daybreak (Spuyten Duyvil 2022). Reading, Book signing,
and Q & A. Appetizers will be served.
RVP by April 10
Nina McLaughlin says Battle of Silicon Valley at Daybreak “captures the chaotic energy
of online life, the relentless stream of appeals for your money, attention, desire,
raising questions of what it means to ‘open this.’ Her approaches to plague
times borrow from The Decameron, in
an imaginative the-more-things-change mode. The pure sound of her lines is a
pleasure, too.” –Boston Globe
Alexandria
Peary is “one of those writers who know how to stay, as de Kooning put it, ‘on
the edge of something.’”—Laura Mullen, Poetry
Foundation
EVENT
#3:
Release Party for Under the Madness Magazine
5-6 PM
May 6, 2022
White Mountains
Community College
In-Person and Virtual
Room Location
T.B.A.
Meet the staff
and contributing writers of Under the
Madness Magazine, the new literary magazine publishing teens across the
globe, run by teen editors from New Hampshire and the North Country under the
auspices of the New Hampshire Poet Laureate. The editors discuss their
experience publishing two issues of the magazine, followed by a reading from
poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers in the first two issues. Reading and Q
& A. Appetizers will be served. Event will be hybrid: in-person and also Zoom.
RSVP by April 10.
* "Wood Typewriter Photo" by Dustin Lee is licensed under CC0 1.0
