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Member Directory
Auvillar Writers' Workshops
VA Center for the Creative Arts, France
Literary Lifestyle, Fiction, Poetry
& Words and Colors
| Contact: | Roberta Lawrence | ||
| Address: | Contact: Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, 154 San Angelo Drive, Amherst, VA 24521 Location: Le Moulin à Nef |
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| Phone: | 434-946-7236 | ||
| Fax: | 434-946-7238 | ||
| E-mail: | rlawrence@vcca.com | ||
| Website: | http://www.vcca.com/ | ||
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| Contact Info: | Click here for general event information (contact, location, website, etc.) |
| Dates: | May 12-18, 2008 |
| Application Deadline: | April 21, 2008 |
| Tuition: | $2195 |
| Scholarships: | Yes |
| Genres: | Fiction, Nonfiction |
| Faculty: | Author Doug Crandell, Editor Nancy Brooks Lane, Art Historian Dr. Perry Brooks Doug Crandell is the author of Pig Boy's Wicked Bird: A Memoir, which has been selected as a Quality Paperback Book Club pick; The All-American Industrial Motel: A Memoir; and his debut novel The Flawless Skin of Ugly People. His short stories and essays have appeared in The SUN, Smithsonian Magazine, Indiana Review, Nebraska Review, Hawaii Review, and in other journals and magazines. A regular contributor to the highly acclaimed magazine, Glimmer Train, five of his short stories have or will appear there. Doug has taught at the Georgia Writers Association and the Midwest Writers Workshop, and has read his work at North Carolina Writer's Network. He was also a featured author at the Midwest Literary Festival in Chicago. In 2005, Doug received the Goldfarb Fellowship at the VCCA. |
| Description: | Start living a literary lifestyle in the south of France! There are secrets to landing an agent, signing a contract and publishing your novel. Without a aupport network, real passion and a mentor, the best-laid plans can lose momentum. The key is leading a literary lifestyle, and what better locale could there be to start living it than in the south of France? |
| Contact Info: | Click here for general event information (contact, location, website, etc.) |
| Dates: | June 16-22, 2008 |
| Application Deadline: | May 26, 2008 |
| Tuition: | $2195 |
| Scholarships: | Partial Work Study |
| Genres: | Fiction |
| Faculty: | Janet Fitch is the author of "Paint It Black" and "White Oleander," an Oprah Book Club selection. Fitch's short stories have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies and she currently teaches advanced fiction writing in the Master of Professional Writing program at the University of Southern California, and at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. |
| Description: | As a writer there can be nothing scarier or more filled with possibility than blank pieces of paper, except a manuscript page with a jumble of ideas that needs to be transformed into a cohesive, seamless story. Our workshop is aimed toward tackling these problems. Bruce Bauman will conduct morning group sessions with exercises, free-writing, lectures and short readings directed at solving these problems. Each student will meet with Janet Fitch separately in a one on one conference on one afternoon to discuss his or her submitted manuscript pages and address the specific tools of fiction writing needed to take the work to the next level. |
| Contact Info: | Click here for general event information (contact, location, website, etc.) |
| Dates: | June 16-22, 2008 |
| Application Deadline: | May 26, 2008 |
| Tuition: | $2195 |
| Scholarships: | Partial Work Study |
| Genres: | Poetry |
| Faculty: | Alan Michael Parker is author of four collections of poems, including the forthcoming "Elephants and Butterflies." He is Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing Alan Michael Parker teaches at Davidson College, and at Queens University, where he is a Core Faculty member in the low-residency M.F.A. program. |
| Description: | How is one's literature culturally bound? How are North American literatures different from European? The focus of the week's workshop will be difference, as we examine what we write as well as some of the important poems of major European poets. For example, how might you complete a poem--by the great French poet Henri Michaux--that begins, "When you walk in the country..."? How might you complete this poem after spending five days roaming Auvillar and its surroundings? Participants in the workshop will be asked to write and wander each morning, to join a group critique session most afternoons, and to read a few assigned European poems in translation (to attend three or four talks by the instructor). Individual manuscript consultation with the instructor will also be available. |
Words and Colors: A Mixed Palette of Expression
| Contact Info: | Click here for general event information (contact, location, website, etc.) |
| Dates: | July 22-28, 2008 |
| Application Deadline: | July 1, 2008 |
| Tuition: | $2195 |
| Scholarships: | Yes |
| Genres: | Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction |
| Faculty: | Elizabeth Seydel Morgan was the 2007 Writer in Residence at Hollins University. She has published four books of poetry with LSU Press, two award-winning short stories, received Best Screenplay Award from the Virginia Film Festival, translated Euripides' Electra for Penn Press, and published non-fiction essays. |
| Description: | Writers will meet with writer Elizabeth Seydel Morgan around a picnic table on the grassy bank of the Garonne River, or under a vine-covered shelter overlooking the fig trees, or at a terrace table in the afternoon at the Hotel de l'Horloge avec un petit vin, where they will practice putting observation into words. Every genre of creative writer can use this kind of communal and individual practice. Individual conferences for critique of work can be arranged. |







