Classes/Workshops:
PNWA President Teaches
Popular Fiction Class
Pam Binder, a New York Times bestselling author and president of PNWA, will again
teach Popular Fiction through the University
of Washington's Popular
Fiction 1 Extension Class. Explore the backbone of the commercial fiction industry, including several
genres such as mystery, romance, young adult, science fiction, fantasy, and
thriller. Examine the art of captivating readers through strong
characters and plots, setting, and page-turning scenes. Learn how to construct
a suspenseful and complex storyline with emotion and believable dialogue.
Master the development of the beginning, middle, and end of your novel. You will also learn how to write a query letter and book proposal, and how to
select the agent and editor who is right for your project.
To register, or if you have questions, contact 206-685-8936.
Scribblers' Retreat Writers'
Conference
November
11-13, 2010
Featured
writers: Diana Gabaldon, Karen White, Adam Davies and Ciji Ware.
Scribblers'
Retreat Writers Conferences take place at the historic King and Prince Beach
& Golf Resort, St. Simons Island's
only oceanfront hotel. Workshop participants enjoy contemplative walks along
the beach, and are within minutes of St. Simons's Island's
beautiful lighthouse and pier village with its many shops and restaurants.
Special rates are available for conference participants.
Conference
fee, including ten writers' workshops, opening banquet and authors cocktail
reception, is $395 per person. Conference fee, including the above and three
nights at the King and Prince Hotel, is $795 per person, including taxes.
Special group rates are available.
For
information about Scribblers' Retreat Writers Conferences, please call
toll-free 800-996-2904, or visit them online at www.scribblersretreatwritersconference.com.
San Francisco Writers Conference &
San Francisco Writers
University
When: Feb.
18th -21st, 2011
Conference begins on Friday and ends on Sunday afternoon.
San Francisco Writers University
classes are on Monday, Feb. 21st.
Faculty & Program: Keynotes and classes with Dorothy Allison (Bastard Out
of Carolina) and David Morrell (First Blood) plus nearly 100 other
authors, agents, editors and publishing professionals. Publishing houses
represented at the event include Jossey-Bass/Wiley, Pocketbook/Simon &
Schuster, Grand Central Publishing and self-publishing leader, Author
Solutions.
Where: InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel, 1 Nob Hill, San Francisco, CA
Website: www.SFWriters.org Enticing early registration rates are available on the website!
Contact: Elizabeth
Pomada at (415) 673-0939 or Barbara Santos at (925) 560-1403 -560-1403
Spalding University's four-semester, brief-residency Master of Fine Arts in Creative
Writing combines superb instruction with unparalleled flexibility. Students may choose semesters in fiction, poetry,
creative nonfiction, children's, playwriting, and/or screenwriting. At the beginning of
each semester, students and faculty work together at a 10-day residency (in Louisville or abroad),
after which they return home to correspond one-on-one through an exchange of 5
packets between the student and the faculty mentor for the rest of the
semester. Semesters begin in spring, summer, and fall. For more information,
email: [email protected], call: (800)
896-8941, ext 2423, or see our website: www.spalding.edu/mfa.
Spalding University has been around since 1814 and is
accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. We are members
of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP). Our MFA program began
in 2001 and we have more than three hundred alumni and currently have 170
students. Our program includes a summer residency abroad (Tuscany,
2011; Paris,
2012; Greece 2013).
Revising Your Life: Turning True
Events into Compelling Stories
How do you push beyond the messy first draft most
writers produce to craft a compelling story or book chapter? This eight-week
class in nonfiction and fiction will show you how to make that happen. You'll
learn essential techniques of research, interviewing, writing scenes, character
sketches, structuring, revision, and how to put the finished manuscript into
the hands of the right editor.
The course
will run Oct. 13 to Dec. 1 on Wednesday evenings from 7 to 9 p.m. in Room 221
of the Good Shepherd
Center in Wallingford (4649 Sunnyside Ave. N.)
There will
be six assignments, including a 100- to 250-word story idea, a 250-word scene,
a 500-word profile, a 750-word first person story, a revised 1,000-word profile
or first person story, and a 250-word cover letter. In addition to the
classroom work, I will schedule individual conferences with each student. This
will give me a chance to go over your work with you one-on-one and suggest ways
to improve it.
Texts: Anne
Lamott's Bird by Bird, and Best American Essays of the Century edited by Joyce
Carol Oates. Both titles are available at the Elliott Bay Book Company.
To enroll, please send me a check for $525 to 201 Newell St.,
Seattle, WA 98109. Enrollment is limited to 15. For more information, contact
me at [email protected]
or 206-284-7121.
Hill House Residency Program
ISLAND is
proud to announce the second application round of the Hill House Residency
Program, providing dedicated time and space for writers at any stage in their
career and emerging musicians. Applications for round two, which will run from
November 2010 to April 2011, are due September 15.
The goal of the Hill House Residency is to support talented emerging
songwriters and writers at all stages of their career with a two, three or four
week stay in a semi-secluded log cabin near East Jordan, Michigan. Room and
board is covered along with a selection of instruments and some basic recording
gear. The musician residency also offers performance opportunities and a small
stipend to aid in professional development. Musicians and writers age 21 and older
from anywhere in the world may apply. Solo writers as well as teams of up to
four people may apply. There is a $20 application fee.
ISLAND (Institute for
Sustainable Living, Art & Natural Design) is a non-profit arts and ecology
center located in Bellaire,
MI. To learn more about ISLAND and the Hill House Residency, or to download an
application, please visit http://www.artmeetsearth.org/artistresidency.html
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