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Workshop Descriptions & Instructors Faith Adiele Mary Allen Kate Aspengren Thomas Fox Averill Nancy Barry Timothy Bascom Linda Bendorf Venise Berry Bruce Bond Michael Dennis Browne Susan Taylor Chehak John Dalton Thomas K. Dean Amber Dermont Kelly Dwyer Hope Edelman Josh Emmons Katie Ford Patricia Foster Laura Fraser Cecile Goding Douglas Goetsch Kevin González John Griesemer Sands Hall Christine Hemp Jim Heynen Rick Hillis Charles Holdefer Richard Jackson Cheryl Fusco Johnson Wayne Johnson Bret Anthony Johnston Daniel Khalastchi Zachary Lazar Carolyn Lieberg BK Loren Fritz Mc Donald James McKean Gordon Mennenga Katherine Min Sharelle Byars Moranville Michael Morse Barbara Robinette Moss Marc Nieson Shannon Olson Lon Otto Juliet Patterson Anjali Sachdeva Sarah Saffian Sam Samuels Leslie Schwartz Sandra Scofield Mary Kay Shanley Carol Spindel Karen Subach Mary Vermillion Ashley Warlick Jan Weissmiller Bart Yates	Thomas Fox Averill Letters, Maps, Headlines: Fiction As Document, Documents In Fiction Weekend Workshop June 21–22 Biography Letters, Maps, Headlines: Fiction As Document, Documents In Fiction Weekend Workshop June 21–22 From the epistolary forward, writers have used the device of documentation to create and to enhance their fiction: a “found” diary, a treasure map, a letter from the past, a newspaper article, a want ad. In a weekend of show and tell and write, we will learn about the power of fiction as document, about “false” documents in fiction, and how this writing strategy helps us to control and to experiment with plot, form, tone and voice. Biography Thomas Fox Averill, a 1976 graduate of The University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, is Professor of English and Writer-in-residence at Washburn University of Topeka. He has won an O. Henry Award and his early stories are in Passes at the Moon and Seeing Mona Naked. His novels are Secrets of the Tsil Café (BlueHen/Putnam, 2001) and The Slow Air of Ewan Macpherson (Berkley/Putnam, 2003). A collection of stories, Ordinary Genius, was published by University of Nebraska Press in April 2005.

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