Life Stories: Autobiography and Fiction                              Richard McCann  

"The secret in writing," writes novelist Dorothy Allison, "is that fiction never exceeds the reach of the writer's courage...until I started telling the stories that were hardest for me, writing about exactly the things that I was most afraid of and unsure about, I wasn't writing worth a damn." In this intensive workshop for prose writers of all levels, we'll work toward the writing of those life stories --stories that rise from autobiography, whether they become fiction or nonfiction in the end -- that seem the hardest and most necessary to tell.

We'll spend at least half of our time on generative exercises designed to help us locate the images that contain the stories of our lives, and the rest in critical discussion of participant works-in-progress.  Please bring six snapshots from your past and 12 copies of fiction, memoir, or personal essay (8 double-spaced pages maximum!) derived from lived life.   

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