Prof. Bryn Chancellor teaching a class at Charlotte Lit

UNC Charlotte Prof. Bryn Chancellor is teaching a class on T 10/29 at Charlotte Lit (@charlottelit). There are a few seats left! 

The course draws from East Asian garden design, in particular the technique of shakkei—“borrowed scenery” or “borrowed landscape,” which embraces features beyond a bordered space and makes them essential to the view; this includes visuals, such as hills, structures or trees, and all five senses—breezes, birdsong, scents—that evolve over seasons, as well as distance: foreground, middle ground, background. A related term is ikedori, which means “to capture alive.”

These concepts are wonderful metaphors for our fiction and creative nonfiction, in which we also want to think about how to make our stories vibrant, textured, and layered. To achieve this, we, too, can gather and borrow from the natural, urban, rural, or suburban environments around us. We might borrow details for setting and description, or we might discover a person or a situation. Sometimes these elements enhance a story; sometimes they spark one.

All the details at https://www.charlottelit.org/classes/