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In Person Reading & Discussion Group: Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway
$35.00 – $115.00
The fees from ABC’s adult writing programs subsidize our free writing programs for kids, whose work is collected in a yearly anthology, and pay our adult workshop instructors. To remain as accessible as possible, participation in adult reading & discussion groups is based on a sliding scale. If you are looking for guidance as to which rate is right for you, this graphic is a helpful resource.
We will do a close reading of Mrs. Dalloway in three sessions, with eye toward Woolf’s dizzying shifts in perspective, and deft movement through time. We’ll look at the novel on a structural level, and notice how individual scenes and sentences are fragmented and interrupted by those same craft choices. And we’ll discuss how the idea of interruption is reflected in the wider concerns of the novel – suicide, the war, illness: all catastrophic disruptions of a life. As Jenny Offill wrote in a new introduction to the book: “Mrs. Dalloway is a remarkably expansive and an irreducibly strange book. Nothing you might read in a plot summary prepares you for the multitudes it contains.” Think of this as a book club on steroids, for readers of all levels, and for readers who are also writers. There will be optional writing exercises inspired by Woolf’s brilliance.
3 Monday night sessions from 7:30 – 9:00pm at Prizer Arts & Letters (2023 E. Cesar Chavez) November 27, December 4 and December 11
Rose Smith’s fiction and nonfiction can be found or is forthcoming in The Missouri Review, CRAFT, Five Points and Narrative Magazine. She was the winner of The Missouri Review’s 27th Annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize and was named a finalist for Narrative Magazine’s 2018 Story Contest. She received her MFA from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. She is currently at work on a novel.
This Austin Bat Cave adult reading & discussion group is open to all and limited to 12 participants.
About the Instructor
Rose Smith
Rose Smith’s fiction and nonfiction can be found or is forthcoming in The Missouri Review, CRAFT, Five Points and Narrative Magazine. She was the winner of The Missouri Review’s 27th Annual Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize and was named a finalist for Narrative Magazine’s 2018 Story Contest. She received her MFA from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. She is currently at work on a novel.