Nancy K. Barry
Biography
Nancy K. Barry is an essayist and playwright from Decorah, Iowa, where she taught writing and literature at Luther College for 30 years. She is the author of radio essays, newspaper columns (on topics as varied as school lunches and attending Woodstock at the age of 14), and a one-woman play, Lessons from Cancer College. Her most recent publication appears in Live at the Elks: An Art Haus Anthology, a retrospective of poetry slams in Decorah.
Events
Whose Voice Is This? A Primer on Style
Description
This workshop provides a two-day entry into defining and manipulating prose styles. Most writers and readers will tell you that to have an engaging style, we need to capture the sound of a “real person speaking,” but it is equally true that good prose is not merely “writing down what people say.”...
