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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	Ashley Warlick Mapmaking: The Archeology of Setting Weekend Workshop July 18–19 Through a Different Lens: Advanced Novel Workshop One-Week Workshop July 19–24 Biography Mapmaking: The Archeology of Setting Weekend Workshop July 18–19 So much of what we do as writers is about transport, about making the feeling for the reader that they have spent time in someone else’s shoes, skin, life. A story must deliver a firm sense of where we are in the world; be it familiar or not, we want readers to feel at home. A map is an interesting model when it comes to storytelling. It’s also a two dimensional representation of a fully living, breathing place, a public key to more private information. A road that leads to the house where you lived with your first wife is a road into a particular personal landscape: it’s impossible to drive down that road without thinking of—what? There are a thousand possible memories and emotions inherent in passing over this small piece of ground. Creating an indelible sense of place is important for all kinds of stories. Through a series of exercises, we will use this course to explore multidimensional maps—physical, experiential, and emotional—of a story in progress. This course is appropriate for fiction and nonfiction writers at any stage of their craft. Through a Different Lens: Advanced Novel Workshop One-Week Workshop July 19–24 The process of writing a novel is fundamentally different than the process of perfecting one. Perhaps, in a flush of energy and imagination, you have completed the daunting task of putting a long story to paper, but now it’s time to figure out what shape that story is capable of taking. To do that, you must step away from it. You must trick your eye into seeing it for the first time, for its strengths and its weaknesses. This is a workshop for writers who have completed a first or second draft of a novel and are looking to solve issues of pace, perspective, voice and texture. We will examine the editorial language of other art forms, principally photography and film, to find ways of tightening our own narratives, making richer landscapes, both physical and emotional, and better, sleeker stories. Participants should bring a synopsis of their novel and the first chapter to workshop. Biography Ashley Warlick is the author of three novels, The Distance From The Heart of Things (1996), The Summer After June (2000), and Seek the Living (2005), all published by Houghton Mifflin. She is the youngest winner of the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship, a founding member of the advisory board for the Novello Festival Press, and book columnist for several newspapers. In 2006, she received a fellowship in literature from the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches in the M.F.A. program at Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina and at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities.

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