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.