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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	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.

	Site Map \| Welcome \| Workshops by Session Date \| Workshops by Instructor Workshops by Genre \| Registration & Housing Information \| Registration Form 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 June 26, 2008