Changing Hands Bookstore

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
"Writing dialogue that doesn't sound like you using your characters as sock puppets can be a challenge. Writing dialogue that is funny, compelling, and/or memorable is already tricky enough; writing dialogue that actually sounds like somebody else is even harder. Drawing from examples in prose, poetry, theater, radio, and cinema, this workshop will examine what makes for compelling dialogue and how you can apply certain principles in your writing to give your characters distinct voices. Using a mix of craft talk and hands-on exercises, participants (be they first-time writers or seasoned scribes) will walk away from this workshop with new pages of work and new techniques to add to their writing toolkit."

• Cost: $8.
• Register below.
• Refunds will not be issued within one day of the event.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Ashley Naftule is a resident playwright and the Associate Artistic Director at Space55 theatre in downtown Phoenix. They’ve written and produced six full-length plays: Ear, The First Annual Bookburners Convention, The Canterbury Tarot, Radio Free Europa, The Hidden Sea, and Orange Skies. A seventh play, Peppermint Beehive, will premiere at Space55 in spring 2024. Their fiction and poetry has been published in Planet Scumm, Ghost City Press, Pink Plastic House, Rinky Dink Press, The Molotov Cocktail, Little Somethings Press, The Hard Times, and Coffin Bell Journal. As a journalist, they’ve written for Phoenix New Times, Pitchfork, Vice, Bright Wall/Dark Room, The AV Club, Daily Bandcamp, and other outlets. Their resemblance to country singer Vince Gill is purely coincidental.

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