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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 Khalatchi 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	John Griesemer Advanced Novel One-Week Workshop July 13–18 Biography Advanced Novel One-Week Workshop July 13–18 You are finishing the rough draft of your novel or maybe the second or third rewrite. It’s not the book you first thought it would be. This could be good; it could be disheartening. Either way, you want to push on. This workshop will help move you to the next stage with your work. Perhaps we should call it “The Advancing Novel” or “Advancing the Novel.” In the class, we will offer candid, constructive critiques of a portion of your work—about twenty pages total from the opening, the climax or from a particular sticking point with which you may want help—attending especially to matters of point of view, pace, and character. We will also read, before the class, a novel as a model for discussion as well as essays by writers about their work. Ken Kesey once said that a well-done novel is a victory for all writers. As a class, we will help each other work our ways toward that victory. Biography John Griesemer is the author of the novels Signal & Noise, No One Thinks of Greenland,and of the forthcoming The Acting School. His short fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Glimmer Train, Threepenny Review, and Boulevard. He is also an actor and has worked on and off Broadway and in films, including The Crucible, Malcolm X, Brother From Another Planet, and Days of Thunder and has made several guest appearances on Law & Order. Guy X, the film version of No One Thinks of Greenland, premiered in 2005.

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