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Workshop Descriptions & Instructors Faith Adiele Mary Allen Kate Aspengren Thomas Fox Averill Nancy Barry Timothy Bascom Linda Bendorf Venise Berry Bruce Bond Michael Dennis Browne Susan Taylor Chehak John Dalton Thomas K. Dean Amber Dermont Kelly Dwyer Hope Edelman Josh Emmons Katie Ford Patricia Foster Laura Fraser Cecile Goding Douglas Goetsch 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.

	Site Map \| Welcome \| Workshops by Session Date \| Workshops by Instructor Workshops by Genre \| Registration & Housing Information \| Registration Form Sponsored by the Division of Continuing Education Iowa Summer Writing Festival C215 Seashore Hall The University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242 Phone 319-335-4160 FAX 319-335-4743 iswfestival@uiowa.edu Last updated on June 27, 2008