Madeline McDonnell
Biography
Madeline McDonnell is the author of three books of fiction, including the forthcoming novel Lonesome Ballroom (Rescue Press, 2024). She has an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow, and has taught creative writing, literature, and composition courses at many places, most recently the MFA program at Portland State University. She lives in Oregon with her family.
Events
Ficetry Potions! Finding Poetry in Fiction, Fiction in Poetry, and a Magical Friendship between Forms
Description
In this team-taught, generative workshop, poet Caryl Pagel and fiction writer Madeline McDonnell will wage a battle for generic dominance, trying to win students over either to the side of poetry or fiction once and for all, because writing is a zero-sum game. Just kidding! In fact, Caryl and...
Turning Art into Fiction: Story Songs and Painted Plots
Description
It goes without saying that fiction writers need to read fiction—carefully, flexibly, broadly, deeply! But what clues and cues might be found in music and visual art that we can borrow for our written works? In this generative workshop, we will listen to music, look at art, and read the fiction and...
