Iowa Summer Writing Festival

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Workshops by Genre

Fiction

Nonfiction

June 8-13
One-Week Workshops

Writing Humor	Kate Aspengren
The He(art) Of The Personal Essay	Cecile Goding
Beginning Memoir	Barbara Robinette Moss
He Said/She Said: Writing Prose Dialogue	Shannon Olson
Coming Apart At The Seams (And Back Together)—Revision Strategies For The Memoirist	Mary Kay Shanley

June 14-15
Weekend Workshops

Writing From Experience: Personal Essay	Laura Fraser
Showing And Telling: The Effective Use of Detail	Sands Hall
A Crash Course On Short Forms: Short Stories And Essays	Carolyn Lieberg
Writing With Sense(s)	Marc Nieson
Helping The Beginner Introduce The People In Your Life	Mary Kay Shanley

June 15-20
One-Week Workshops

Family Memoir: First Chapters	Patricia Foster
Magazine Writing	Laura Fraser
The Artful Essayist	Christine Hemp
Ten Thousand Words	Carolyn Lieberg
Memoir: On Self And Society	Marc Nieson
The Art Of The Anecdote	Shannon Olson
Passionate Revision—Novel & Narrative Nonfiction	Lon Otto

June 21-22
Weekend Workshops

Getting At The Essence: What Things Have To Teach Us	Mary Allen
The Journey Within: Travel Writing And Transcendence	Timothy Bascom
Breaking Into Publications	Laura Fraser
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

June 22-27
One-Week Workshops

Get Your Prose In Shape: Revision Strategies For Essayists	Nancy Barry
Advanced Craft Workshop	Sands Hall
Assay The Essay: Critical Essay Writing For Magazines, Newspapers, And Radio	Christine Hemp
Writing With Sense(s)	Marc Nieson
Traveler’s Story—Literary Nonfiction & Fiction	Lon Otto
Creative Veracity: Book-Length Creative Nonfiction	Carol Spindel
Twenty Dances Toward Flapping Your Wings Again: A Generative Workshop For Writers	Karen Subach

July 6-11
One-Week Workshops

Finding The Story In Your Story: A Memoir Writing Workshop	Mary Allen
An Enormous Eye: Writing The Contemplative Essay	Timothy Bascom
Memoir And Place	Thomas K. Dean
“This Too Is Life”: Memoirs On Illness & Health	Cecile Goding
From Memory To Art: Poetry, Prose Poems, Short-Short Fiction	Jim Heynen

July 12-13
Weekend Workshops

Where, Why, How: Nonfiction Structure & Form	Faith Adiele
Writing Out Loud: Voice And Style In The Essay	Nancy Barry
On The Job: Stories About Work	Cecile Goding
The Loaded Conversation: Writing Effective Dialogue	Jim Heynen
Dear Editor/Dear Agent: Submitting Your Prose For Publication	BK Loren
Hot Spots: Making Major Scenes Pay Off	Sandra Scofield

July 13-18
One-Week Workshops

Advanced Travel Writing	Faith Adiele
Writing About The Unbelievable: The Weird, The Wacky, And The Wonderful	Hope Edelman
Literary Hybrids—Flash Fiction, Prose Poems, Lyric Essays	Michael Morse
Memoir: The Vertical Pronoun And The Who Cares? Question	Sarah Saffian

July 19-20
Weekend Workshops

What We Talk About When We Talk About Food: Food Writing	Faith Adiele
The He(art) Of The Personal Essay	Cecile Goding
Write Where You Are: Finding Your Place In Creative Nonfiction	BK Loren
Shaping The Truth: Fictional Structure For Memoir Writers	Fritz Mc Donald
Narrative Journalism: The Art Of The Profile	Sarah Saffian
Writing The Query: A Feature Story In Miniature	Sam Samuels

July 20-25
One-Week Workshops

Exploring Spiritual Writing	Mary Allen
Jumpstarting Your Creativity	Linda Bendorf
Creative Creative Nonfiction: Experiments in Form	Hope Edelman
Memoir: Pieces For The Whole	James McKean
The Feature Article, Or Write What You Don’t Know	Sam Samuels

Sponsored by the Division of Continuing Education
Iowa Summer Writing Festival
C215 Seashore Hall
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242

Phone 319-335-4160
FAX 319-335-4743
iswfestival@uiowa.edu

Last updated on January 29, 2008