This late spring, June 14-17, 2012, join faculty members Meg Files and Sheila Bender in a creative-nonfiction weekend intensive crafted to create new work and re-think, revise, and re-energize existing work.
Designed for beginning, emerging, and established writers, this workshop will help you take your work to the next level. Meg and Sheila, who have team-taught for fourteen years, will offer interactive craft lectures, in-class writing sessions, small-group manuscript workshops, and individual consultations. Register.
This workshop is designed to pack a lot of writing and a lot of revision into a long weekend right around the equinox. You’ll soak yourself in daylight and your work, in one of the most relaxing, inspirational locations in the world.
Schedule
Thursday, June 14
5:30-7:30: Welcoming gathering–wine, hors d’oeuvres, introductions
7:30-8:30: New creative nonfiction workshop: (two groups)
Friday, June 15
9-10:15: Lecture (Sheila)
10:30-12: Exercise (Meg)
12-1: Lunch
1-3: Concurrent manuscript workshops
3-6: Writing time and Individual consultations
7:30-9: Faculty readings (open to the public)
Saturday, June 16
9-10:15: Lecture (Meg)
10:30-12: Exercise (Sheila)
1-2:30: Concurrent manuscript workshops
3-5: Concurrent workshops: New creative nonfiction
7-9: Participant readings (private)
Sunday, June 17
9-9:45 Farewell Session
Faculty
Sheila Bender is the author of a dozen books, including: A New Theology: Turning to Poetry in a Time of Grief. She publishes Writing It Real, an online magazine for those who write from personal experience. She is an adjunct instructor at Pima College in Tucson, though she resides in Port Townsend, WA. Register.
Meg Files‘s books include Meridian 144, Home Is the Hunter and Other Stories, The Love Hunter and Other Poems, Write from Life: Turning Your Personal Experiences into Compelling Stories, Galapagos Triptych, and The Third Law of Motion. She edited Lasting: Poems on Aging. Her awards include a Bread Loaf fellowship. She was the James Thurber Writer-in-Residence at Ohio State University. She teaches creative writing at Pima College in Tucson. Register.
