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Festival Overview

Welcome

The Workshop Method

Levels of Writing Skills

Summer in Iowa City

Elevenses

One-Week Workshops

Typical Weekly Schedule

Weekend Workshops

Typical Weekend Schedule

Meet Our Staff

Testimonials

Important Addresses

Credits

Typical Weekend Schedule


Schedules may vary among weekend workshops, but all begin on Saturday morning and end by 4:00 Sunday afternoon.

Typical Weekend Schedule

SATURDAY

8:30–9:30 a.m.            Registration and light breakfast
9:30 a.m.

Large group orientation and welcome

10:00 a.m Meet in individual workshops
12:00 Noon–2:00 p.m. Lunch on your own; read, write, critique manuscripts
2:00–4:00 p.m Meet in individual workshops
  Break for dinner on your own
7:00 p.m. Open Mike: readings by participants


SUNDAY

10:00 a.m.–12:00 Noon Meet in individual workshops
12:00 Noon–2:00 p.m.            Lunch on your own; read, write, critique manuscripts
2:00–4:00 p.m Meet in individual workshops



Weekend Workshops

June 13-14
Weekend Workshops

Prose Style: How to Write Out Loud 

Nancy K. Barry

Writing beyond Realism (Even If Just Momentarily)

Kyle Beachy

Writing a Book Proposal

Venise Berry

Plot and Action in the Short Story: A Workshop

Amber Dermont

Scaling Mt. Slush Pile: Reading Your Story Like a Fiction Editor

Hugh Ferrer

The Art of Emotion: Poetry

Katie Ford

Transforming Memories into Children’s Stories: Beginning Writers at Play

Cheryl Fusco Johnson

Word Play

Carolyn Lieberg

Writing the Weekend Short Story

Gordon Mennenga

Writing with Sense(s)

Marc Nieson

Breaking Through: Strategies and Exercises for Defeating Writer’s Block

Anjali Sachdeva

Evaluating the Scene  

Sandra Scofield

Weekend Workout: Stronger Nonfiction Prose in Two Days

Carol Spindel

Slapdash-Mishmash Haberdashery Hash, or Just Write It—Something for Most Writers Karen Subach
Finding Your Own Voice: Writing Like Yourself Bart Yates


June 20-21
Weekend Workshops

Writing the Monologue

Maggie Conroy

Polishing Your Prose: Read and Write Like a Master

Josh Emmons

The Art of the Interview

Sarah Fay

The Shape of Your Poem

Katie Ford

Showing and Telling: The Effective Use of Detail

Sands Hall

Poems: Lost and Found

Christine Hemp

The Loaded Conversation: Writing Effective Dialogue

Jim Heynen

Focus on Character

Charles Holdefer

29 Points of Departure

Carolyn Lieberg

The Fiction of Subversion and Singularity, or The Fiction Only You Can Write

Peter Markus

Shaping the Truth: Fictional Structure for Memoir Writers

Fritz Mc Donald

The Art of Metaphor

Marc Nieson

The Art of the Anecdote

Shannon Olson

Science Fiction and the Scientific Fact of Cataclysm Leslie Carol Roberts


July 11-12
Weekend Workshops

A Simple Matter: Prose Rhythm

Marilyn Abildskov

Re-Thinking Revision in the Essay

Nancy K. Barry

The Journey Within: Travel Writing and Transcendence

Timothy Bascom

Building Character from the Inside Out

Karen Bender

Plotting the Plot in the Novel Weekend

Kelly Dwyer

Writing a Rhyming Picture Book That Works

Jill Esbaum

Scaling Mt. Slush Pile: Reading Your Story Like a Fiction Editor

Hugh Ferrer

Let Me Tell You about Me: Challenges in Point of View

Rebecca Johns

Writing Wild: Exercises in Fictional Voice

Gordon Mennenga

What We Love about Like: Simile and Metaphor, Image and Idea

Michael Morse

Get Over Yourself! Writing the Personal Essay that Others Give a Damn About

Sarah Saffian

Writing the Query: A Feature Article in Miniature

Sam Samuels

Helping the Beginner Take Smaller Pictures Mary Kay Shanley
Mystery Characters Mary Vermillion
Yours to Know? Interviewing Techniques for Writers            Kris Vervaecke


July 18-19
Weekend Workshops

Thickening the Plot

Thomas Fox Averill

Instant Connection: Authoring a Blog

Maudy Benz

That’s Not Funny: Writing: Humor in Neurotic Times

David Bouchier

For the Love of Animals: Imprints in Poetry and Prose

Mary Cross

Generating Fictional Ideas

Kelly Dwyer

Creative Creative Nonfiction: Experiments in Form

Hope Edelman

School Daze: Stories from Childhood

Cecile Goding

Short Story Weekend

Rick Hillis

Children’s Writers Workout

Cheryl Fusco Johnson

Through the Hungry Gate: Writing Poems about Food, Memory, and Desire

Kiki Petrosino

The Small Stuff: Description and Detail in Fiction and Creative Nonfiction

Anjali Sachdeva

Creating Characters, or Why It Takes Two to Tango

Robert Anthony Siegel

Clues to Effective Mysteries

Mary Vermillion

Mapmaking: The Archeology of Setting Ashley Warlick


 

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Last updated on May 22, 2009