THE LIVING OBJECT IN PROSE
Lighthouse Writers Workshop Lit Fest

Objects are hardly mute. In prose, they are no less alive than characters, as ready to confess as conceal. It’s often through objects that characters discern or ignore truths about their own existence (think Proust’s madeleine; Beattie’s bowl in “Janus”). As we write about objects, we’ll give our sensory language muscles a workout and learn the skillful balance of the concrete and abstract in our work. Above all, we’ll listen to what objects have to say, anticipating the moment in which they resist our imposed meanings to surprise us with different stories altogether. All levels fiction and nonfiction writers welcome.