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Workshop Descriptions & Instructors Marilyn Abildskov Mary Allen Kate Aspengren Thomas Fox Averill Nancy K.Barry Timothy Bascom Kyle Beachy Karen Bender Linda Bendorf Maudy Benz Venise Berry Bruce Bond David Bouchier Michael Dennis Browne Maggie Conroy Mary Cross Thomas K. Dean Amber Dermont Janet Desaulniers Kelly Dwyer Hope Edelman Josh Emmons Jill Esbaum Sarah Fay Hugh Ferrer Katie Ford Geoffrey Forsyth Cecile Goding Douglas Goetsch Sands Hall Christine Hemp Jim Heynen Rick Hillis Charles Holdefer Richard Jackson Rebecca Johns Cheryl Fusco Johnson Wayne Johnson Daniel Khalastchi Carolyn Lieberg BK Loren Peter Markus Fritz Mc Donald James McKean Gordon Mennenga Sharelle Byars Moranville Michael Morse Barbara Robinette Moss Marc Nieson Shannon Olson Diana Ossana Lon Otto Juliet Patterson Kiki Petrosino Mark Jude Poirier Leslie Carol Roberts Anjali Sachdeva Sarah Saffian Sam Samuels Sandra Scofield Mary Kay Shanley Robert Anthony Siegel Carol Spindel Karen Subach Mary Vermillion Kris Vervaecke Ashley Warlick Michelle Wildgen Bart Yates	Janet Desaulniers The Novel in Miniatures One-Week Workshop June 7–12 Biography The Novel in Miniatures One-Week Workshop June 7–12 This generative workshop is appropriate for beginning to advanced writers who wish to build novels through the accumulation of short (one-line to one-page) prose pieces—which I call miniatures. Unlike micro-fictions and micro-essays, which must stand on their own as complete works and represent essentials of form, miniatures vary in aspect. Language in a single miniature may reflect the lyrical compression and implication we’ve come to expect in micro-forms, or it may appear lowly, slight or obscure, as in isolation might appear any discrete unit in a mosaic, pastiche, or piece of found art. Likewise, the miniature is free to adapt and adopt as form means of expression and organization from matrixes outside the literary. We’ll read and write, accumulate and share miniatures during the week of our study together, but students may also bring to share work composed of miniatures they’ve written prior to our class. Biography Janet Desaulniers’ collection, What You’ve Been Missing, won the 2004 John Simmons Award. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Other Voices, and Ploughshares, among other publications, and has been widely anthologized, including in the Pushcart Prize series and the Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction. She has been awarded fellowships from the NEA, the Michener-Copernicus Society, and Illinois Arts Council. An Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she’s at work on a novel told in miniatures.

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