Thursday, October 31 to Sunday, November 3

Kati will be returning to the Jackson Hole Writer’s Conference this fall. She’ll be teaching:

• Saturday, November 2 from 10:00-11:30am

  "Scenes, Pseudo Scenes & Summary: How to Manage Time and Layer Meaning into Your Narrative Prose"  (Fiction + CNF) 

  What counts as a scene? And what the heck is a pseudo-scene? How do you know when you're staying in one place too long or darting away too fast? In this 90-minute workshop for prose writers of all types, refresh your scene-writing basics, sharpen your sense of pacing, and notice opportunities to build depth into your storytelling.

• Saturday, November 2 from 1:45-2:45pm

  “Structuring Your Memoir: Wisdom from the Process of Revising Lightning Flowers” (CNF)

  In powerful memoirs, the author doesn’t just give a play-by-play of events—they use their story to build an idea. In this talk, Katherine Standefer will talk about the process of turning a varied, chaotic life into a singular narrative by identifying the book’s guiding question, breaking character change into single scenes, strategically excluding material, and inserting framing language. She’ll show how she structurally took her book Lightning Flowers from a messy, linear draft to a promising-but-flawed manuscript, then finally on to a focused and integrated book that was a finalist for a major award. Participants will leave the session with directive writing prompts and concrete questions to apply to their manuscripts.

Take a peek at the overall conference schedule and faculty lineup: https://jhwriters.org/conference/

It’s going to be a magical fall weekend in Jackson!