SASFest Writer’s Craft—ELISABETH NONAS

THINKING CINEMATICALLY

Screenwriters face the unique challenge of creating visual representations for abstract ideas and emotions. They must use minimal description and dialogue to make readers of their scripts see a movie as they read. Through exercises and examples, participants of this workshop will learn to think cinematically in a way that can serve as a valuable tool for writers of prose and poetry. Elisabeth Nonas is a novelist and screenwriter. She taught screenwriting and writing for emerging media at Ithaca College for twenty-five years. Her most recent novel, Grace Period, was published in 2024. She is currently working on a sequel.