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Tomales Bay Writers' Workshops

Contact:Pam Houston
Address:Contact: University of California, Davis, UC Davis Extension, 1333 Research Park Drive, Davis, CA 95618-4852
Location: Marconi Conference Center, 18500 State Highway 1, Marshall, CA 94940
Phone:Contact: 530-752-0881
Location: 415-663-9020
Fax:510-594-3771
E-mail:tomales.bay.workshops@gmail.com
Website:http://www.extension.ucdavis.edu/unit/arts_and_humanities/
Dates:October 19-23, 2011
Tuition/Cost:$1,300 plus $150 application fee
Scholarship:Borchard Fellowships (excludes application fee)
Genres:Poetry, Ficiton, Nonfiction
Faculty/ Presenters:Keynote speaker is Kwame Dawes. Faculty include: Dorothy Allison, Jon Davis, Fenton Johnston, Melinda Moustakis, Benjamin Percy, and Danzy Senna. Program Director is Pam Houston.
Description:

There are six workshops from which to choose. The workshops meet each morning for four consecutive days:

  1. Fiction/Nonfiction: Listening and Dreaming and Writing Along the Way-- Audacity and How We Get Words on the Page (Dorothy Allison)
  2. Fiction: Finding a Form (Vikram Chandra)
  3. Poetry: Vision and Revision-- Investigating Poetic Strategies (Camille T. Dungy)
  4. Nonfiction: Writing from the Inside-- the Power of Personal Essay (Gary Ferguson)
  5. Mixed Genres: Poets, Prose Writers and Cross-- Genre Writers Welcome (Greg Glazner)
  6. Fiction: Soul-- Four Ways to Reveal Essence (T. M. McNally)
The morning workshops offer participants the opportunity to work closely with an established writer, to receive constructive feedback from peers, to spend four intensive days dedicated to creative work and to generate new material.

Afternoons are devoted to craft talks by conference presenters, UC Davis creative writing faculty members and panels comprised of visiting editors, agents and members of the larger Davis writing community.

Evenings are devoted to readings by conference presenters and UC Davis creative writing faculty.
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