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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	Barbara Robinette Moss Beginning Memoir One-Week Workshop June 7–12 Biography Beginning Memoir One-Week Workshop June 7–12 Do you have a personal story that feels stuck in your mind, as if calling to be written? Have you jotted down bits and pieces of it but need a little help determining what you truly want to say? In this class, we will translate experiences and emotions into words. Through class exercises, we will focus on getting to the heart of the story, while acknowledging and considering the powerful emotions stirred by writing personal experiences. We will write, read aloud, and gently revise as we transpose our memories onto the page. Once a story has been established, we will search for the beginning, middle and end, and discuss techniques for strengthening the writing with metaphor, a sense of place, and dialogue. Non-fiction writing can easily get cluttered with “everything that happened.” We will determine what details to leave in, what to leave out. No manuscript is necessary, but please bring your willingness to write and share your experiences. Nightly reading and writing assignments will also be included. Biography Barbara Robinette Moss is the author of two memoirs, Change Me into Zeus’s Daughter (Scribner, 2000) and Fierce (Scribner, 2004), which was an ELLE magazine pick. She is the recipient of the Iowa Authors Award 2000 and the 2002 Alabama Author Award for Nonfiction. Her nonfiction has been published in two anthologies, Bloom & Blossom and Stories from the Blue Moon Café. Her work has also appeared in Allure Magazine. Moss has been a guest on All Things Considered, The Gary Robertson Show, BBC Radio Scotland, The David Rothenburg Show, The Diane Rehm Show, WBAI Radio New York, and many others. Moss recently spent a year at The Actor’s Studio Drama School in New York City writing a screenplay, an adaptation of Change Me into Zeus’s Daughter.

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