Name: Gravity: Thinking About Physicality in Fiction
Start: 2025-06-12T13:30:00-0600
End: 2025-06-12T15:30:00-0600

Thursday June 12, 2025 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT

Lighthouse

Writers can become so compelled by the inner lives of their characters that they, the characters, become like fireflies trapped in jars. In this seminar we will talk about how to think about the physical in fiction—keeping characters in their bodies, in rooms, and on the face of the earth—and try our hands at exercises that help us think about gesture, interaction, action, and consequence. Your characters may never raise their eyebrows again.

Speakers

Elizabeth McCracken

Visiting Author

Elizabeth McCracken is the author of eight books: Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry, The Giant’s House, Niagara Falls All Over Again, An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, Thunderstruck & Other Stories, Bowlaway, The Souvenir Museum, and The Hero of This Book. She’s... Read More →

Thursday June 12, 2025 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
Lighthouse 3870 York Street Denver, CO 80205

Fiction

Lit Fest 2025

Elizabeth McCracken

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