The Writer's Center
White River Junction, Vermont
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The Writer's Center Offerings for Fall 2008!Writing from Your Life Instructor: Joni Cole Tuesdays, September 2-October 7 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. $175 Essays. Personal narratives. Memoirs. In this 6-week workshop, the goal is to capture on paper the stories, people, places, and meaningful moments from your life. If you don’t know what to write, this workshop can help you find your stories. We also share tips and techniques so that you can craft your memories into powerful prose. All participants write, share their work, and provide feedback. Limited enrollment: 8 writers. Pre-registration required. Info: joni.cole@alum.dartmouth.org or (802) 295-5526. Page Producer Workshop Instructor: Joni Cole Thursdays, September 4-October 23 (eight weeks) (Choose day or evening session) $200 This 8-week workshop (fiction and creative non-fiction writers welcome) is a great way to push your writing forward thanks to ongoing deadlines, encouragement, reader response, and writing within a supportive community. Launch a project or make solid progress on an existing work. Daytime class meets from 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Evening class meets from 7-9:30 p.m. Instructor: Joni Cole. Pre-registration required; limited enrollment. Info: joni.cole@alum.dartmouth.org or (802) 295-5526. Thinking Like a Poetry Editor: How to Be Your Own Best Critic (“The Ossmann Method”Poetry Workshop) Instructor: April Ossmann (author of Anxious Music, Four Way Books, 2007, and Executive Director of Alice James Books) Saturday, September 20 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m. $45 Learn how to think like a poetry editor! In this workshop we’ll turn the usual workshop model on its head and not only allow the poet being critiqued to speak, but to speak first and critique their own poem, discussing correlations between the criticisms s/he has for other participants’ poems and her/his own before group discussion begins. This will offer a taste of what it means to be both poet and poetry editor, a position in which it becomes easier to objectively assess your own work; to spot dull vs. energetic syntax, generic vs. original imagery and other strengths and weaknesses you may have overlooked. It also empowers the poet in the process, and engenders an unusually positive and congenial workshop atmosphere. Participants are invited to send two poems (no more than two pages total) prior to the workshop and will be provided with preparation instructions. We will address one or both poems in the class (depending on time constraints/number of participants). Participants will receive written editorial suggestions for both poems from the instructor. Pre-registration required; enrollment limited to 8. Info: aprilossmann@hotmail.com or (207) 645-3107. Crash Course: Fast Feedback Instructor: Joni Cole Tuesday, September 23, 7 p.m.–9:30 p.m. $45 This one-meeting session offers the perfect opportunity to receive some thoughtful reader response to a work-in-progress. How it works: Submit up to 10 double-spaced pages (fiction or creative non-fiction) by the pre-registration date of September 9. Every participant will have two weeks to enjoy and review all the submitted pieces. At the meeting, we’ll discuss each work, with a particular focus on how you can move forward with insight, direction, and enthusiasm! Pre-registration required; limited enrollment. For more info or to register, call 802 295-5526 or email joni.cole@alum.dartmouth.org What Our Time Allows, Improvisations and Hybrids: Writing Out of Our Homes Instructor: Peter Money Saturday, September 27, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. (we’ll take an hour lunch break together) $60 for the session Whether because of our other work, family obligations, planet alignment, responsibilities, committees, volunteering, self temperament, access to an office or studio, mentorship, past experience with critique, or a general flux in terms of sense of direction . . . the act of writing is as important to us at various times as breathing. What’s important is that we do this and this workshop focuses on making use of what’s available: the fragments, the glimpses, the novel a little bit at a time, the poem in pieces. We’ll “workshop” 1-2 pieces you’ve written (maybe more, depending on time and registration) for group discussion (please bring twelve copies of each), and we’ll compose new pieces in session. Instructor Peter Money is also the publisher of Harbor Mountain Press (books that have been reviewed in Time magazine and Library Journal). He writes prose and poetry, studied with Beat writer Allen Ginsberg, and is on the faculty of Lebanon College and The Center For Cartoon Studies. He’s been publishing fragments for 23 years. For more information, please see http://www.petermoneypoetry.com and contact mt.arts@valley.net (Instructor Peter Money) and put WRJ Course in the Subject heading. *** Individualized Writing/Editing Services |