Creative Writing Workshop                                           Instructor: Robert Bausch

Each participant will have a chance to work toward the completion of a novel or short story, while focusing on individual problems and concerns.

This "full-immersion class" is an opportunity to work intensively on a work-in-progress and get an immediate response from an accomplished writer and teacher, in addition to constructive feedback from a population of readers trying to do the same thing.  More

Poetry Workshop: Receptivity and Discovery        Instructor: Marie Howe

Perhaps we have nothing to say in a poem – no point, no argument.   Perhaps the poem has something to say to us, or through us. “A poem begins with a lump in the throat, with a homesickness,” Robert Frost has written.  Where is this place we are homesick for?  Perhaps the poem is a way to discover something we didn’t know before, a way to arrive at a place we have intuited but never named.  During this week in Italy we will practice a radical receptivity to what is all around us: what we see and hear and taste and smell and touch - and to what is within us - whatever wants to speak. More   

Richard McCann will be substituted by Joyce Maynard who will be teaching

Telling Your Story: A Workshop in Memoir & Personal Narrative   

Life Stories: Autobiography and Fiction                    Instructor: Richard McCann

"The secret in writing," says 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. More

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Cost: $ 2,150   To Register for Workshops                     Guest Registration Form 

Includes tuition, hotel accommodations, plus                    Guest Fee: $ 1,570.  Includes:            access to all festival activities,concerts,                           accommodations plus attendance at all

transportation, other classes,, etc.)                                  concerts, readings, lectures, master

                                                                                     classes and open rehearsals; eligible to                                                                                         sign up for all excursions and other                                                                                                  classes.