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Thomas K. Dean
Amber Dermont
Kelly Dwyer
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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

Ashley Warlick

Found Fiction
Weekend Workshop
July 19–20 and July 26-27

Through A Different Lens: Advanced Novel Workshop
One-Week Workshop
July 20–25

Biography


 

 

 

 

 

Found Fiction
Weekend Workshop
July 19–20 and July 26-27

There’s a wonderful lie about (and sometimes perpetrated by) writers, that they must live dangerously in order to write about danger; that all good writing comes from experience. In fact, good writing comes from the ability to recognize experience when you see it, and the confidence to apply your imagination to what you find. In this course, we will examine the fictional promise of found stories, public artifacts, family memories, gossip, and other slivers of the everyday, using what we find around us as inspiration for what we invent. We will use class time to generate and discuss new work, as well as to read and discuss stories by other successful writers. This course is appropriate for writers at any stage in their craft.

Through A Different Lens: Advanced Novel Workshop
One-Week Workshop
July 20–25

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 20 pages 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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Last updated on June 27, 2008