Charlotte Writers Club requests the honor of your inner Irish presence for our March General Meeting on the eve of...
Don't be shy about bringing your green cheer as we gather at 6:30 p.m. around our monthly pot of gold. Business will commence at 7:00 p.m. as our fearless leader calls us to order. The evening’s headliner will be Daren Dean's presentation, "Writing from the Unconscious."
Daren provided this handout:
Writing from the Subconscious with Daren Dean.CharlotteWriters.3.17.21.docx
Club business and member announcements will follow Daren's presentation. If you have something to share, please use the Zoom hand icon.
The link to join the meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89735071822?pwd=d1Q1bHNuQ3JpbW9sUFZNeWgvSjNZQT09
Writing from the Unconscious
Do you worry so much about grammatical errors that it interferes with your writing? Does that pesky little voice in your head, the internal editor who chants “not good enough,” keep you from your desk? Do you lose time waiting for the muse to descend before you can pick up a pen or sit down before a keyboard?
If so, help is on the way. Daren Dean will show you how to revolutionize the way you write by inviting you to step away from crippling rationality and harness the power of the unconscious to make you the best writer you can be.
Daren holds an MFA in creative writing from UNC - Wilmington and teaches at Lincoln University in Missouri. His fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and interviews have appeared in Louisiana Literature, BULL (Men's Fiction), Maryland Literary Review, The Oklahoma Review, The Chattahoochee Review, Ecotone, Image, Midwestern Gothic, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Red Dirt Forum, Yemassee, Ploughshares, The Huffington Post, Bloom, and others. He has recently been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in fiction.
Reviewers of Daren Dean’s first novel, Far Beyond the Pale (2015) sing his praises as “the laureate of fallen angels,” a writer who takes his readers into “a dysfunctional world characterized by broken people, broken spirits, and broken promises.” The same “grit lit” tone emerges again in his 2019 collection of short stories, I’ll Still Be Here Long after You’re Gone. What might at first seem overwhelmingly grim is, however, redeemed by the redemptive soft spot in the author’s heart “for those fighting back against the darkness.” A second novel, The Black Harvest is slated for publication by the University of West Alabama’s Livingston Press in 2021.
We look forward to seeing you!
