"The Kitchen”

THE KITCHEN--an exercise in show or tell: In this afternoon course, we will consider the kitchen from two stylistic vantage points. The first will be a sensory approach where we will consider all the physical details that create a fully inhabited scene. We will focus on how to imbue descriptions with a psychological center. The second, will be a cerebral/expository approach where the mind is in charge of considering the kitchen from the unique, peculiar ways we observe the world intellectually. We will focus on how observation and reflection--the act of turning over, whittling down, deconstructing--performs an individual's process of discovery for the reader.

M. Randal O’Wain is an essayist and fiction writer from Memphis, Tennessee. He is the author of Meander Belt: family, loss, and coming of age in the working-class south (Nebraska, 2019) and the story collection Hallelujah Station (Autumn House, 2020). His essays and stories have appeared in Masters Review, Zone 3, Hotel Amerika, Guernica, and Oxford American. He holds an MFA from Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program and teaches at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 

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