Iowa Summer Writing Festival


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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	Karen Subach Twenty Dances toward Flapping Your Wings Again: A Generative Workshop for Writers One-Week Workshop June 7–12 Slapdash-Mishmash Haberdashery Hash, or Just Write It—Something for Most Writers Weekend Workshop June 13–14 Biography Twenty Dances toward Flapping Your Wings Again: A Generative Workshop for Writers One-Week Workshop June 7–12 Breathe. Attend. Feel deeply. This gathering is for revitalizing your creative spirit. Every day we will take a few minutes to share part of a previously made piece (either through reading aloud or through giving out copies for silent reading); we will move into exercises that lead to compelling new work (depending on your medium); and we will read overlapping work from throughout history. Largesse of spirit and mutual support will inform this workshop. All voices are welcome. Before we meet, I request a letter addressing your writing background and nine typed pages of finished work. The pages you send will not be discussed in class; they will serve, rather, to give me a sense of who you are and how I can help catalyze new writing for you. This class is most appropriate for those who have weathered ups and downs within the creative process and are familiar with the complicated commitment of attending to the calling. Former students are encouraged to return; I take joy in seeing how your work is evolving. *Slapdash-Mishmash Haberdashery Hash, or Just Write It—Something for Most Writers* Weekend Workshop June 13–14 Bombazine and tulle. Glitter, threads, and fitting. As we plunge into the box of word-triggering material that I will offer you in this generative workshop, I will help you to find imaginative ribbons from your life to shape into poems, stories, plays, essays, or other forms long after our session ends. A significant part of your new work will come out of the images that occur to you in response to what we do, and from your own voice in its many forms. While image and voice may seem to some writers most relevant to work in poetry, I ask you to consider the novel-length fiction of Michael Ondaatje, Rikki Ducornet, Virginia Woolf, and Janet Frame; the short fiction of Richard Ford, Susan Minot, and Christine Schutt; the plays of Romulus Linney, David Caudle, David Roby, and Tammy Ryan; the essays of James P. Carse and Jo Ann Beard; and the screenplays of Jane Campion, Patricia Rozema, and Beth Ferris. We will be inspired by moving examples of work in several genres. Come with your enthusiasm and unconditional positive regard! While a passion for words and sentences would be ideal, the only real requisite is your sincere desire to discover new material. Biography Karen Subach (M.A., Oxford University; M.F.A., The University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop) is a poet and fiction writer with a background in languages and medieval literature. Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Cimarron Review, CutBank, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Kalliope, New Letters, North American Review, Pleiades, Roanoke Review, and other journals, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Editor’s Choice Awards. She has been a writing resident at Yaddo and a scholar for the Poets in Person Series. Karen has recently finished a novel, excerpts of which are forthcoming in Georgetown Review and New England Review. This will be her twenty-second fabulous year with the Iowa Summer Writing Festival.

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