Craft Seminar: Mastering the Metaphor with John Manuel Arias
Craft Seminar: Mastering the Metaphor with John Manuel Arias
1 Session: Monday, July 6
6:30-8:30pm ET
John Manuel Arias
Figurative language is the life blood of effective prose. An unforgettable metaphor breaks through the membrane of our physical world, into something deeper, invoking emotions we didn't even know were there. But where do they come from? The dreamscape, of course.
In this seminar we will learn to use dream logic to master the art of the metaphor to rework our lived reality into something our subconscious has always known.
Workshop Highlights:
Students will walk away with a greater understanding of figurative language theory and techniques
Students will learn to write stronger and more effective metaphors
Students will gain a greater understanding of descriptive prose
John Manuel Arias is a queer, Costa Rican-American poet and writer. He is the author of the debut novel, Where There Was Fire (Flatiron, 2023). He is a Canto Mundo fellow and alumnus of the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop. His prose and poetry have been published in PANK, The Rumpus, F(r)iction, Joyland Magazine, and Akashic Books.
He has lived in Washington D.C., Brooklyn New York, and in San José, Costa Rica with his grandmother and four ghosts.
