February Workshop
Denver-area monthly programs are free to both members and non-members. They are typically two hours long on a Saturday morning or afternoon. Topics vary. Check our website for up-to-date information. Email questions to denverprograms@rmfw.org.
Filling the Gaps in Historical Fiction
Presented by Jack Marshall Maness
Saturday, February 6. 1:00 P.M. to 3:00 PM
Bear Valley Branch Library
5171 W Dartmouth Ave, Denver, CO 80236
MEMBERS & NON-MEMBERS WELCOME
No RSVP Required
Ever wonder where the research either should or must end, and the writing begin? Ever struggle to find the balance between history and fiction, between fact and imagination? In this workshop we’ll explore how holes in the historical record can be filled with creativity. Author and librarian Jack Marshall Maness will show a little of his research and writing process, and we’ll share our own work with our fellow writers (please bring a couple pages or ideas that have you stuck and we’ll try to un-stick them!)
Jack Marshall Maness is the author of Song of the Jayhawk, winner of the 2015 Colorado Book Award for Historical Fiction. The Historical Novel Society wrote he works a “great deal of fascinating history into his narrative, and the personalities he fills the plots with . . . are conveyed very vividly through excellent dialog.” His debut novel and the first in a trilogy, it was inspired by the lives of his great-great grandparents in 1850s Kansas. By day he is a professor and librarian at the University of Colorado Boulder.