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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 (Old Capitol Museum)
9:30 a.m. Large group orientation and welcome (Old Capitol Museum)
10:00 a.m. Meet in individual workshops (Schaeffer Hall or Maclean Hall)
12:00 Noon–2:00 p.m. Lunch on your own; read, write, critique manuscripts
2:00–5:00 p.m. Meet in individual workshops
5:00 p.m. 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 14-15
Weekend Workshops

Novel Craft

Dalton

Generating Fictional Ideas

Dwyer

Writing from Experience

Fraser

Showing And Telling

Hall

Poems: Lost And Found

Hemp

Children’s Writers Workout

C. F. Johnson

Story For Screen

W. Johnson

Reading As A Poet

Khalastchi

Short Story Workshop

Lazar

Short Forms: Stories/Essays

Lieberg

The Plot Thickens

Min

Writing with Sense(s)

Nieson

Fantasy & Science Fiction

Sachdeva

Introducing People

Shanley


June 21-22
Weekend Workshops

Essence of Things

Allen

Fiction As Document

Averill

Journey Within: Travel

Bascom

Starting Your Story

Dermont

Plotting The Plot

Dwyer

Novel Beginnings

Emmons

Breaking Into Publications

Fraser

Making a Scene

González

Showing And Telling

Hall

29 Points of Departure

Lieberg

Fiction For Memoir

Mc Donald

Art Of Metaphor

Nieson

Exercises In Poetry

Patterson

Writing & Revising Poetry

Weissmiller


July 12-13
Weekend Workshops

Where, Why, How

Adiele

Writing Out Loud

Barry

Consciousness In Fiction

Chehak

Plotting The Plot

Dwyer

Shape Of Your Poem

Ford

On The Job

Goding

Poem That Eludes You

Goetsch

The Loaded Conversation

Heynen

Adv. Short Story

Hillis

Dear Editor/Dear Agent

Loren

Hot Spots: Scenes

Scofield

Mystery Characters

Vermillion


July 19-20
Weekend Workshops

Food Writing

Adiele

Seven Basic Plots

Chehak

Stinky Magic

Dwyer

Finishing: Adv. Poetry

Ford

He(art) Of The Essay

Goding

Naming The World

Johnston

Write Where You Are

Loren

Fiction For Memoir

Mc Donald

Writing Wild

Mennenga

Metaphor & Figuration

Morse

Narrative Journalism

Saffian

Writing The Query

Samuels

Clues To Mysteries

Vermillion

Found Fiction

Warlick


 

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Iowa Summer Writing Festival
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The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242

Phone 319-335-4160
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Last updated on June 26, 2008