Iowa Summer Writing Festival - Typical Weekend Schedule

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

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 May 22, 2009