Name: Taking it Off the Nose: Using Dialogue to Show Conflict and Develop Character (V)
Start: 2025-06-13T13:30:00-0600
End: 2025-06-13T15:30:00-0600

Friday June 13, 2025 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT

Zooom

Great dialogue is more about what is not said than what is said. This workshop explores how to listen to conversations, reveal character, and leave intentional gaps to make your dialogue something that doesn’t simply explicate or move plot. We’ll explore a few good examples and practice a bit. Intermediate or above. Nonfiction and fiction writers welcome. Plan to practice writing.

Speakers

Karen Auvinen

Instructor

Karen Auvinen (she/her/hers) is poet, mountain woman, life-long westerner, writer, and the author of the memoir Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living, a finalist for the 2019 Colorado Book Award. Her body of work traverses the intersection of landscape and place, examining... Read More →

Friday June 13, 2025 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
Zooom

Fiction Nonfiction/Memoir

Audience Craft Seminar

Lit Fest 2025

Karen Auvinen

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