Speaker/topic: Darlyn Finch Kuhn, "Change the Names and Make Stuff Up"

Join Darlyn Finch Kuhn as she demonstrates techniques to transform real-life people and events into compelling, selling fiction. She’ll read excerpts from her award-winning novel, “Sewing Holes,” that illustrate the techniques, and give you an opportunity to practice one or more of them via a writing prompt

About the speaker: Darlyn Finch Kuhn, a poet  known for her saucy style and engaging readings, is also a  gifted storyteller. In addition to two poetry collections  – “Red Wax Rose” and “Three Houses” – her works have appeared in literary journals, newspapers and magazines, and her poems have been featured on NPR’s “Poetic Logic” and read by Garrison Keillor on the Writers Almanac. She was interviewed on World Radio Paris. She is the eponymous “Scribbler,” of the Scribbles e-newsletter.  Additionally, her debut novel, Sewing Holes, won a 2015 Royal Palm Literary Award.