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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	Jim Heynen From Memory To Art: Poetry, Prose Poems, Short-Short Fiction One-Week Workshop July 6–11 The Loaded Conversation: Writing Effective Dialogue Weekend Workshop July 12–13 Biography From Memory To Art: Poetry, Prose Poems, Short-Short Fiction One-Week Workshop July 6–11 This is a workshop that begins with life experience and explores ways of transforming it through some of the options available to the verbal artist. The moment we give our attention to form¾whether that be the music and repetition we associate with poetry or the structure and narrative progression we associate with fiction what we thought was only a memory can take on new life. We’ll use the writing process itself to discover what in our experiences is calling for our attention as writers, and we’ll explore ways of seeing how memory can feed the imagination rather than limit it. Even as many prominent authors today write in a variety of forms, we’ll try different approaches to our subject as a way of finding which avenue will lead us in a rewarding direction. The Loaded Conversation: Writing Effective Dialogue Weekend Workshop July 12–13 How do they do it—those effective writers of dialogue? Think of Grace Paley, whose characters can say the darnedest memorable things, like “Dying young is a terrible thing, but it saves a lot of time,” or of Lorrie Moore, whose own wit is such a natural fit with her witty characters, or Cormac McCarthy, whose characters’ clipped words can emit horror in the dead space they leave around them. In the best examples we can find in fiction, dialogue is always more than a tape recorder held up to ordinary speech. It is more than character revelation. It is double-edged, triple-edged, energized by paradox and surprise. Good dialogue can be like a fish leaping out of the water or an electrical current coursing through the dry leaves of description. In this weekend, we’ll read some lively examples of dialogue. We’ll practice the art itself in many short exercises—and we’ll have a ball doing it. Biography Jim Heynen is a widely published poet, short story, essay and novel writer. He is perhaps best known for the short-shorts and prose poems that appear in his collections featuring young boys (The One Room Schoolhouse, The Boys’ House, You Know What is Right, The Man Who Kept Cigars in his Cap) and more recently in two photography books published by The University of Iowa Press—Harker’s Barns and Sunday Afternoon on the Porch. He has written two young adult novels (Cosmos Coyote and William the Nice and Being Youngest) and one major nonfiction book, One Hundred Over 100, which featured 100 American centenarians. He has frequently been featured on National Public Radio reading his own stories and has been awarded National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in both poetry and fiction. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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