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Typical Weekly Schedule

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Typical Weekly Schedule

Week-long workshops begin on Sunday evening with a light dinner, orientation, and the first class meeting. For the rest of the week, workshops meet each afternoon for at least three hours, Monday through Friday. An individual conference of 20–30 minutes with your workshop leader will be scheduled during the week, as well as other activities. Week-long workshops are designed to give you plenty of time to write, revise, read and critique in the mornings and evenings.

Typical Weekly Schedule

SUNDAY
6:30–7:30 p.m. Registration and light dinner (Old Capitol Museum)
7:30 p.m. Large group orientation and welcome (Old Capitol Museum)
8:00 p.m. First class meeting (Schaeffer Hall or Maclean Hall)
MONDAY-FRIDAY
7:30–11:00 a.m. Coffee and conversation at Capanna Coffee. Time to write, read, critique manuscripts and confer with instructors
11:00 a.m. “Elevenses” Literary Hour (Biology East Building)
Lectures, discussion, presentations of interest to writers Different every day
2:00–5:00 p.m. Individual groups in workshop session
Each week will also include the following events:
MONDAY
5:30 p.m. Festival reception
WEDNESDAY
7:30 p.m. Open Mike: readings by participants
FRIDAY
5:30–7:30 p.m. All-Festival Dinner

 

One-Week Workshops

June 8-13
One-Week Workshops

Writing Humor

Aspengren

Advanced Novel

Dalton

He(art) Of The Essay

Goding

Generating Poems

Jackson

1st Pages: Children\Teens

C. F. Johnson

Basic Knowledge: Novel

Lazar

Tempests: Adv. Story

Min

Beginning Memoir

Moss

Prose Dialogue

Olson

Poetry Revision

Patterson

Revision For Memoirists

Shanley

Novel: Characters

Yates


June 15-20
One-Week Workshops

Playwrights Workshop

Aspengren

Family Memoir

Foster

Magazine Writing

Fraser

Novel: First Chapter

González

Craft Of Fiction

Hall

Artful Essayist

Hemp

Novel Solutions

W. Johnson

10,000 Words

Lieberg

Memoir: Self & Society

Nieson

Art of Anecdote

Olson

Passionate Revision

Otto

Prose Poem

Patterson

Poultry Slamboree

Subach


June 22-27
One-Week Workshops

Revision For Essayists

Barry

The Poem’s Process

Bond

The Short Poem

Browne

Short Fiction Workshop

Dermont

Novel Ideas

Dwyer

Writing The Novel

Emmons

Adv. Craft Workshop

Hall

Assay The Essay

Hemp

Narrative Strategies

W. Johnson

Writing with Sense(s)

Nieson

Traveler’s Story

Otto

Creative Veracity

Spindel

Twenty Dances

Subach


July 6-11
One-Week Workshops

Memoir Writing

Allen

Contemplative Essay

Bascom

Powerful Plots

Berry

Memoir And Place

Dean

Memoirs: Illness & Health

Goding

Poetry New & Revised

Goetsch

Memory To Art

Heynen

Short Story Workshop

Hillis

Fiction For Magazines

Mennenga

Apprenticeship & Inspiration

Morse

Writing The First Novel

Schwartz

Preparing To Revise

Scofield


July 13-18
One-Week Workshops

Adv. Travel Writing

Adiele

Advanced Novel

Chehak

Writing The Unbelievable

Edelman

Subject Matters: Poetry

Ford

Advanced Novel

Griesemer

Get Lost

Loren

I Can See Clearly

Moranville

Literary Hybrids

Morse

Memoir: Vertical Pronoun

Saffian

Autobiographical Novel

Schwartz

Revising Stories

Scofield

Patience, Caffeine, Pigheadedness

Yates


July 20-25
One-Week Workshops

Spiritual Writing

Allen

Jumpstarting Your Creativity

Bendorf

Creative Creative Nonfiction

Edelman

Collision Course: Novel

Holdefer

Adv. Short Story

Johnston

Beginner’s Luck: Poetry

Khalastchi

Memoir

McKean

Beginning The Novel

Mennenga

Feature Article

Samuels

Characters for Mystery

Vermillion

Advanced Novel

Warlick

Useful Tools: Poetry

Weissmiller

 

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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