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June 7-12
One-Week Workshops
An Enormous Eye: Writing the Contemplative Essay Timothy Bascom
The Talent of Reading (and What It Means to Writing) Sarah Fay
“This Too Is Life”: Memoirs on Illness and Health Cecile Goding
Beginning Memoir Barbara Robinette Moss
Creative Veracity: Book-Length Creative Nonfiction Carol Spindel
Twenty Dances toward Flapping Your Wings Again: A Generative Workshop for Writers Karen Subach

June 13-14
Weekend Workshops
Prose Style: How to Write Out Loud Nancy K. Barry
Writing a Book Proposal Venise Berry
Word Play Carolyn Lieberg
Writing with Sense(s) Marc Nieson
Breaking Through: Strategies and Exercises for Defeating Writer’s Block Anjali Sachdeva
Evaluating the Scene Sandra Scofield
Weekend Workout: Stronger Nonfiction Prose in Two Days Carol Spindel
Slapdash-Mishmash Haberdashery Hash, or Just Write It—Something for Most Writers Karen Subach

June 14-19
One-Week Workshops
What a Character! Kate Aspengren
From Memory to Art: Poetry, Prose Poems, Short-Short Fiction Jim Heynen
Telling the Tale, a Nonfiction Workshop Wayne Johnson
10,000 Words Carolyn Lieberg
Memoir: On Self and Society Marc Nieson
Passionate Revision—Fiction & Narrative Nonfiction Lon Otto
Outside/Inside: The Art and Craft of Nature Writing Leslie Carol Roberts

June 20-21
Weekend Workshops
The Art of the Interview Sarah Fay
Showing and Telling: The Effective Use of Detail Sands Hall
29 Points of Departure Carolyn Lieberg
Shaping the Truth: Fictional Structure for Memoir Writers Fritz Mc Donald
The Art of Metaphor Marc Nieson
The Art of the Anecdote Shannon Olson

June 21-26
One-Week Workshops
Finding the Story in Your Story: A Memoir Writing Workshop Mary Allen
The Artful Essayist Christine Hemp
The Traveler’s Story—Literary Nonfiction & Fiction Lon Otto

July 5-10
One-Week Workshops
Writing Humor Kate Aspengren
Memoir: The Writer As a Window on the World Timothy Bascom
Finding Your Place in the Personal Essay Thomas K. Dean
On Thought: Writing Non-Narrative Essays Cecile Goding
The Feature Article, or Write What You Don’t Know Sam Samuels
Coming to Your Senses—Strategies for the Memoirist  Mary Kay Shanley

July 11-12
Weekend Workshops
A Simple Matter: Prose Rhythm Marilyn Abildskov
Re-Thinking Revision in the Essay Nancy K. Barry
The Journey Within: Travel Writing and Transcendence Timothy Bascom
Get Over Yourself! Writing the Personal Essay that Others Give a Damn About Sarah Saffian
Writing the Query: A Feature Article in Miniature Sam Samuels
Helping the Beginner Take Smaller Pictures Mary Kay Shanley
Yours to Know? Interviewing Techniques for Writers Kris Vervaecke

July 12-17
One-Week Workshops
The Beauty of Brevity: Autobiography Distilled Marilyn Abildskov
Get Your Prose in Shape: Revision Strategies for Essayists Nancy K. Barry
Bringing Your Novel to Life Maudy Benz
The Lyric Essay Mary Cross
Why Are You Telling Me This? Core Essentials of Memoir Writing BK Loren
Who Dat? Bringing Your Profile Subject to Life Sarah Saffian

July 18-19
Weekend Workshops
Writing About Nature from an Urban Perch Linda Bendorf
Instant Connection: Authoring a Blog Maudy Benz
That’s Not Funny: Writing Humor in Neurotic Times David Bouchier
For the Love of Animals: Imprints in Poetry and Prose Mary Cross
Creative Creative Nonfiction: Experiments in Form Hope Edelman
School Daze: Stories from Childhood Cecile Goding
The Small Stuff: Description and Detail in Fiction and Creative Nonfiction Anjali Sachdeva

July 19-24
One-Week Workshops
Exploring Spiritual Writing Mary Allen
Jumpstarting Your Creativity Linda Bendorf
Ideas on the Wing: Writing the Spontaneous Essay David Bouchier
Advanced Memoir: In the Muddle of the Middle Hope Edelman
Wild Hope: Writing Activist Essays BK Loren
Memoir: Pieces for the Whole James McKean

 
 

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Last updated on February 9, 2009