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The Power of Storytelling 2022

Fortellingens kraft 2022 (The Power of Storytelling 2022) gathers some of the best forces in the field of journalistic storytelling to give you inspiration, tools and sharpened skills.


September 21, 19:00 CEST AT HOVEDSALEN:

SHINING LIGHT ON DARK STORIES

At this year’s Fortellingens kraft, Jessica DuLong‘s talk will explore the ethics and complications of trauma-related coverage and offer tangible tools, guidelines, resources, and evidence- and experience-based context for journalists. More details: https://sched.co/12DTK

September 22, 10:30 CEST AT LOFTET:

USEFUL PRACTICES FOR WORKING WRITERS AND EDITORS

Jessica DuLong and Mark Kramer offer down-to-earth ways of crafting strong and engaging narrative. They’ll apply the fiction craft-terms ‘plot’ and ‘voice’ to the writing and editing of narrative nonfiction. The goal is work that hosts audience-members as they experience the text. They’ll explore common plot structures and x-ray the mechanics of how readers/viewers/listeners ingest scenes. This workshop’s goal is to develop members’ skills at more aware and deliberate revision. More details: https://sched.co/12cUM

Hourly Schedule

September 21, 2022

19:00 CEST - 20:00 CEST
Shining light on dark stories
SHINING LIGHT ON DARK STORIES, with Jessica DuLong, will explore the ethics and complications of trauma-related coverage and offer tangible tools, guidelines, resources, and evidence- and experience-based context for journalists. Pulling good narrative from dark places is tricky business. Many stories we cover—on robbery, rescue, fire, disaster, disease, violence, abuse, and beyond—involve trauma of some kind. Because traumatic events make news, people affected often wind up as sought-after sources. How can we balance care and compassion with getting the best, most effective story? Coverage of people facing or witnessing fearful circumstances beyond their control requires empathy, ethics, and self-care, along with insights into how trauma impacts both brain and body. Jessica DuLong’s talk, SHINING A LIGHT ON DARK STORIES, will draw upon her background, as an author, journalist, and book collaborator, interviewing people facing trauma, grief, post-traumatic stress, and related disorders. She will also offer up guidance based her own experiences with both primary and secondary trauma. This session will address the effects that covering trauma-related stories can have even on the most tough-minded journalists. Participants will leave with tangible tools, guidelines, and resources supported by the pioneering work of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma.

September 22, 2022

10:30 CEST - 13:30 CEST
Useful practices for working writers and editors
Narrative nonfiction is built from real-life scenes, linked together. How can we shape and link scenes in order to captivate and inform our audiences? By a) drawing them into the lives of characters who feel genuine, while also b) framing relevant contexts for actions, c) in language that’s spare and informal. The goal is to propel audiences toward culminating insights. Jessica and Mark offer down-to-earth ways of crafting strong and engaging narrative. They'll apply the fiction craft-terms ‘plot’ and ‘voice’ to the writing and editing of narrative nonfiction. The goal is work that hosts audience-members as they experience the text. They'll explore common plot structures and x-ray the mechanics of how readers/viewers/listeners ingest scenes. This workshop's goal is to develop members' skills at more aware and deliberate revision. This is the fourth year the conference has offered a version of this practical workshop. IMPORTANT: As in past sessions, we urge participants to send us a few pages of a project you are working on, and a brief project description. This isn't a requirement for attending, but enough people do so every year so we (very supportively) use these offerings, along with other materials, as teaching texts. No need to worry about perfect translations–GoogleTranslate works quite well-enough for these informal discussions. Please send soon (July 15 deadline) to fk@fortellingenskraft.no They’ll show you useful writing moves that strengthen structure, animate characterizations, and craft hospitable and engaging sentences, paragraphs and scenes. The participant-samples each year display dozens of cool “writing moves.” Writers usually make these intuitively. They’ll identify and name these moves, so you can have them at your fingertips, and control them deliberately and deftly. They’ll also share a few specific constructive practices—observation exercises, word-collection, and daily pages—that reinforce essential skills and add to your narrative tool kit. Mark and Jessica, both experienced teachers of nonfiction writing to professionals, also often edit one another’s work. That's where they've worked out together the practical methods they'll share.

Date

Sep 21 - 22 2022
Expired!

Time

CEST
All Day

Location

Kulturhuset i Bergen
Vaskerelven 8, 5014 Bergen, Norway
Website
https://www.kulturhusetibergen.no/

Organizer

Association Power of the Story
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