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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

Venise Berry

Venise Berry

Powerful Plots: Understanding Story And Structure In Novel Writing
One-Week Workshop
July 6–11

Writing a Book Proposal
Weekend Workshop
July 26-27

 

Biography

 

 

 

Powerful Plots: Understanding Story And Structure In Novel Writing
One-Week Workshop
July 6–11

This course will focus on helping you construct a viable plot and effective storyline. Specifically by focusing on structural development, you will leave the course with a clear vision of how to complete or improve your novel. Discussions will also provide helpful hints and strategies about other key components like dialogue, characterization, description, visual style, conflict, motivation and marketability. Outside of class, students will write from a novel idea or pull from a current novel a number of exercises. In class, we will critique each other’s writing and offer constructive suggestions. This workshop can help writers at all stages, whether you have only an idea in your head or your manuscript is complete but you’d like to strengthen it.

Writing a Book Proposal
Weekend Workshop
July 26-27

Many agents and publishers will accept a book proposal for non-fiction writing, however, that proposal will need to effectively sell you and your book idea in order to land a contract. This workshop will focus on helping you generate a non-fiction book proposal for such genres as: memoir, historical, essays, autobiography, anthology, resource, self-help, how-to, and humor. During this interactive weekend, we will discuss the primary segments involved including; topic, competition, timing, publishers, promotion, marketing and credentials. You will write an outline and complete a number of assignments toward the construction of a proposal for your own book idea. This class can assist writers at all stages. Students should bring to class the book, “How to Write a Book Proposal” by Michael Larsen.

Biography
Venise Berry is an Associate Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication and African American Studies at The University of Iowa. She is the author of three national bestselling novels, So Good, An African American Love Story (1996), All of Me, A Voluptuous Tale (2000) and Colored Sugar Water (2002). She is busy working on her next two novels, Pockets of Sanity and Career Women. For more information visit Venise’s website at www.veniseberry.com.

 

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Last updated on June 26, 2008