INDIANAPOLIS — Michael Poore, novelist from Highland, Indiana, will keynote the Indiana Writers Center annual event, Gathering of Writers, “Writing Lives: Memory & Imagination,” from 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Saturday, March 28 at the Indiana State Library, 315 W Ohio St. Poore will also lead a three-hour fiction intensive during the day-long workshops.
Poore is the author of two novels for adults: Up Jumps the Devil and Reincarnation Blues, one novel for younger readers: Two Girls, a Clock, and a Crooked House, as well numerous short stories. His story “The Street of the House of the Sun” appeared in The Year’s Best Nonrequired Reading 2012.
In addition to Poore, there will be sessions in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and playwriting presented by published authors Abegunde, Liz Duffy Adams, Samuel Autman, Eric Freeze, Janine Harrison, Marc Hudson, Noley Reid, Barbara Shoup, and Ania Spyra.
The cost for the Gathering is $99 for members, ($149 with Fiction Intensive with Poore), and $175 for nonmembers ($225 with workshop). To register online: https://www.indianawriters.org/collections/all-classes-workshops/products/2020-gathering-of-writers
Participants must register in advance to attend. All fiction intensive registrations include registration for the Gathering.