Starting the Work: Make Your Beginnings Sing with Margaret Malone

​In this two-hour class, we will read the beginnings of short stories, poems, and essays together, discuss their effectiveness, tone, and structure, and whether they encourage us to keep reading and why. Then, using what we noticed, each participant will generate several starts of their own.

​Plan on leaving this workshop with beginnings, ideas, tools, and encouragement we can use to nurture new work.

​FAQs:

• ​I'm unable to join live. Will the event be recorded?
  Yes! The event will be recorded and shared with ticket-holders via email the following day.

• ​How can I participate during the event?
  You will be joining a Zoom Meeting for this event. We encourage you to have your camera on, but remain muted until prompted. We also recommend that you come prepared with writing materials!

• ​I live outside the U.S. Can I still join?
  Yes! We have many international members in Sustenance. We'd love to see you there no matter where you're tuning in from.

​BIO:

​Margaret Malone is the host of PAM CUT’s Movie Book Club, the literary radio show Bust the Canon on xray.fm, and author of the story collection People Like You, a Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction & Winner of the Balcones Fiction Prize, and selected by Powell’s as one of the Northwest’s “25 Books to Read Before You Die."

​The recipient of grants, fellowships, and residencies from MacDowell, the Ucross Foundation, Ford Family Foundation, Sitka Center, Literary Arts and others, she lives in Portland, Oregon and has been working hard lately at being more flinty and unreasonable in daily life. She’s also in the death throes of completing a novel.