Join us on at the Porcupine Theater on Wednesday, June 4th at 7pm for Alan Lightman and Maria Popova in Conversation “Do Art and Science Represent Opposite Truths?” This event is co-sponsored by the Bunnell Street Arts Center and Storyknife Writer’s Retreat, tickets available at The Porcupine Theater.
Alan Lightman is a physicist, novelist and MIT’s first pressor with dual appointments in science and humanities. Maria Popova is an essayist, poet, cultural critic and author of the blog, The Marginalian.
Admission is $25 general; $20 discounted, proceeds support both sponsoring organizations. Beer and wine will also be available for purchase.
Free Workshop by Angie Chuang
on June 18, 6-7:30pm
U.S. fiction and nonfiction writers have been trained to follow “universal” rules of story structure: The Aristotelian plot arc. Three-Act Structure. The Hero’s Journey. In recent years, diverse voices in prose writing and craft have called for expanding these norms. “it’s about time that individual agency stops dominating how we think about plot or even causality. If we canonize E. M. Forster and Aristotle, it should be as representatives of one tradition among many,” Matthew Salesses writes in Craft in the Real World. In this workshop for prose writers of all levels, we deconstruct both western and non-western story structures and storytelling conventions to better understand how our own work might draw from, and fit into, a literal world of stories. We’ll read stories and watch short films as examples, and experiment with both generative writing and restructuring
Angie Chuang is an associate professor of journalism at University of Colorado Boulder who writes and teaches a wide range of nonfiction forms. Her memoir, The Four Words for Home (Aquarius Press/Willow Books, 2014),won an Independents Publishers Award for Multicultural Nonfiction. Her writing has appeared in Narratively, Creative Nonfiction, The Asian American Literary Review, Litro, The Washington Post, Hyphen, as well as anthologized in A Harp in the Stars: An Anthology of Lyric Essays, and multiple editions of The Best Women’s Travel. Prior to entering academia, she was a newspaper reporter for 13 years, as a staff writer for The Oregonian, The Hartford Courant, and the Los Angeles Times. Her crossover scholarly book, American Otherness in Journalism, is forthcoming later this year (Routledge, November 2025).
Registration limited. Closes on June 16 or when full. Class held in person at Homer Council on the Arts.
Storyknife Writers Retreat 