Events & News
November 19, 2011: I’ll be teaching a workshop for Writer’s Exchange in Chaffee County, Colorado. Want to know what Chaffee County is like? Look here…
March 2, 2012: I’ll be on a panel at AWP with Lucy Jane Bledsoe and other writers I haven’t met yet. The topic of the panel: “The Place at the Heart of the Story.” I may be doing some other events at AWP, too. I’ll post here soon as I know.
July 8 – 20, 2012: I’ll be teaching two classes at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival: “Word Yoga” and “Putting the ‘Creative’ Into Nonfiction: A Creative Nonfiction Intensive.” Registration for these classes opens on the Iowa Summer Writing Festival website in February, 2012. I like teaching at the Iowa Festival because it is one of the few writing conferences/festivals that focuses on the process of writing, not the selling of the end product. We live in a culture that worships things like: Jesus was born, and then 33 years later, he died. We forget that everything in between makes the beginning and end possible. The end is always a crucifixion (with the emphasis on fixion / fiction).
