Bear Fragments: A Generative Craft Workshop for Immersive Writing
$30 for one session in September
Illuminating a “truth” for your reader—that tingle, or gut punch, or nausea, or warmth, etc. —is part of a writer’s magic. Practicing your magic formula, ensuring that your meaningful goals land with your reader, takes both technique and also some amount of artistic play.
With a focus on Christine Byl’s flash nonfiction piece “Bear Fragments”, as well as other excerpts, this session is part generative workshop, part craft study. After our session you’ll have familiarized yourself with new tools to reach your reader beyond plot (like structure, detail, and musicality) which can be applied to your work in creative ways.
https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/workshop-sign-up/p/bearfragments
When: September 5, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm EST
Where: Zoom (link provided after registration)
Class Size: 15 participants
About the instructor:
Lillian Deja Snortland’s poetry, essays, features, creative nonfiction, and short stories have appeared in Postscript Magazine, OUCH! Magazine, Goucher Magazine, Yellow Arrow Publishing, and Amplify Arts publications, as well as been performed at Voxel theater and exhibited at the Temporary Arts Centre in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Her essay “The Tragedies of Ecstasy” was nominated for a 2025 Pushcart Prize through After the Art literary magazine.
Her work moves within the intersection of internal social anxiety and external visceral transformation, often situated in surreal liminal spaces and featuring the permeability of the physical body. She loves collaborating with teams in any creative medium, including film writing/production (having participated in the Baltimore 48 Hour Film Project and the Maryland 72 Film Fest), tabletop role-play, and musical jams.
Originally from Eugene, Oregon, Snortland graduated from Carleton College with a B.A. in Classical Studies and a Minor in French/Francophone Studies, and has an M.F.A in Nonfiction from Goucher College. She enjoys lounging in parks, zooming via public transit to Baltimore cultural events, and hosting thematic parties in her apartment.