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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	Peter Markus The Fiction of Subversion and Singularity, or The Fiction Only You Can Write Weekend Workshop June 20–21 Biography The Fiction of Subversion and Singularity, or The Fiction Only You Can Write Weekend Workshop June 20–21 Anyone can be taught the craft behind writing a poem or a story. But to write the story that only you can write, the stories that are a deeply sublime and mythic part of you, a mysterious presence inside of you, that is the fiction that I will help you tap into this weekend. To become intimate and authentic with a new word, a new lexicon, a new reality—this will be our aim. In this workshop, we will make every effort to subvert the conventional elements of fiction in order to arrive at and discover, by paying close attention to language itself, the fiction that only you can write. This workshop will focus on the generation of new work and is open to all writers at all stages of development. Even if you’ve never written a story before, or if you’ve already published a collection of stories and are looking to break through to something new, this is a workshop for you. Biography Peter Markus is the author of the novel Bob, or Man on Boat, as well as three short books of short-short fiction: Good, Brother, The Moon is a Lighthouse, and The Singing Fish. His stories have appeared widely in such publications as Black Warrior Review, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Quarterly West, Northwest Review, and New Orleans Review, as well as in the anthologies New Sudden Fiction and Sudden Stories. He lives in Michigan and teaches at Eastern Michigan University.

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