Name: Say Less, Mean More: Writing with Subtext
Start: 2026-06-13T09:00:00-0600
End: 2026-06-13T11:00:00-0600

Say Less, Mean More: Writing with Subtext

Saturday June 13, 2026 9:00am - 11:00am MDT

Lighthouse Writers Workshop

Learn how to layer meaning beneath dialogue and description so your characters reveal as much in silence as they do in speech. We’ll analyze short examples, then practice writing scenes where the real tension simmers beneath the words.

Speakers

Rachel Weaver

Faculty

Rachel Weaver is the author of the novel Point of Direction, which Oprah Magazine named a Top Ten Book to Pick Up Now and which won the 2015 Willa Cather Award for Fiction. She is on the faculty at Wilkes University’s low-residency MFA program in addition to teaching Lighthouse... Read More →

Saturday June 13, 2026 9:00am - 11:00am MDT
Lighthouse Writers Workshop

Fiction, Nonfiction/Memoir

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Lit Fest - Lighthouse Writers Workshop 2026

Rachel Weaver

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Lit Fest - Lighthouse Writers Workshop 2026

Rachel Weaver

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