Workshops & Presentations
For nearly 30 years, Chris Ransick has offered dynamic keynote presentations, workshops, and discussion groups for writers, book clubs, professional organizations, educators, and others. A complete list is available upon request, along with a fee schedule for 90-minute, half-day, and full day sessions. Recent presentations include:
- The Next Voice You Hear: A Voice Shifting Workshop
- Flash Forms
- Journal Mining
- Hidden Things
- Epicure's Garden: Becoming a Sensuist
- Guerilla Poetry
- On Being a Word Thief
- Breathing Life Into Characters
- The Storyteller's Toolbox
- Nothing Happens Nowhere: A Workshop on Setting
- A Great Spring: Renew Yourself
- Becoming a Good Host: Imagination as Guest
- Humor, Wit, & Challenge
- Measuring Voice
- Ostranenie: Making the Familiar Strange
- Dirt & Ink: Thoughts on Kunitz and The Wild Braid
- The 16th Way: A Poet in the Community
- PoemBoy vs. The Media Gorgon: Literature’s 21st Century Challenge
- Ten Ways to Make Kids Love Books
- Fiction FAQs
Recent Activities & Events
- Denver Poet Laureate, 2006-2010; appointed by Mayor John Hickenlooper
- Grand Lake Retreat, 2006-2011; Lighthouse Writers Workshop
- Keynote Speaker; Northern Colorado Writers Conference
- Poetry Master Class; Lighthouse Writers Workshop
- Emcee, Poetry Reading; Association of Literary Scholars & Critics Conference, Denver 2009
- Poetry Judge, Colorado Book Awards
- Liquid Poetry: A Celebration of Ale and Verse; Wynkoop Brewery, Denver
- Guest Speaker, Englewood Schools Gifted and Talented program
- Poemboy vs. The Media Gorgon; Douglas County Libraries Speaking Tour
- Going Native; an interview with novelist William Haywood Henderson
- Artposium; Colorado Art Ranch
- Guest Speaker; Colorado Business Committee for the Arts