Contact:
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Workshops, Talks, & Presentations:
Piveral is available for workshops, talks, and presentations. She runs short story and flash generative workshops that last 2-3 hours. Talks include; Psychopomps in modern works, Personification: Turning Concept into Character, Flash Fiction: Getting Started, and more. If you would like to know moreabout having her come present to or work with your group please use the contact form above.
Hacking into Flash : Presentation/Workshop
Are you interested in the flash fiction form? Would you like an exploratory overview that helps you quickly engage and start experimenting with flash? In this presentation, which can be expanded to a generative workshop, Piveral gives a quick overview with several different methods for approaching a flash fiction piece. She covers what defines flash, how to determine what stories fit the flash form, how to be concise, and different approaches to the form.
The workshop can be expanded to a generative workshop with prompts and group feedback. Attendees will experiment with structure and style. Leave with your first piece of flash and the tools to create more.
Not Dead Yet- Concept as Character : Presentation
Let psychopomps be your guide to contextualizing concept as character. Symbols and metaphors provide a schema through which we can explore existential questions such as the meaning of death. Writers and artists have personified death throughout history to delve into the concept. In this presentation, we will examine techniques that can be used by modern writers to explore a concept as a character. We will discuss modern personifications of death, their commonalities and differences, how they remain in conversation with previous iterations of psychopomps, and techniques used by authors to contextualize Death for a modern reader, offering a new focus.
*Content Warning: This talk features discussion of death in many iterations, including but not limited to animal abuse, cancer, suicide, homicide, genocide, and related dark humor.
Bio:
Chloie Piveral is a speculative fiction writer whose stories combine the dark and whimsical. Her short fiction has appeared in magazines and anthologies such as Flame Tree Press’s Robots & Artificial Intelligence, Apparition Lit, Common Deer Press’s Short Tails, and more. She’s a graduate of the select and prestigious Odyssey Writing Workshop and holds an MFA in creative writing from the USM Stonecoast program. A transplant from the American Midwest, she now lives near the Colorado mountains with her rescue dog, Ziggy. For more of her work, visit her website at www.cpiveral.com.