Presents Presents Workshops. Readings. Award Presentations. Lunch. In our ongoing quest to provide students and community southwest of downtown Denver access to the best writers in Colorado through literary events and readings, Writers Studio is happy to announce its second annual Spring Literary Festival. Workshop participants will be able to choose morning and afternoon workshops in creative nonfiction, poetry, fiction, or young adult fiction, taught by nationally published, award-winning writers highly experienced in teaching the writing workshop.
You've always felt the desire to write, but fiction isn't your thing. You're drawn to writing about real people, real events - especially events from your own life. But how do you get started? And what makes a good story? In this workshop, author Shari Caudron will lead you through a series of exercises to help you understand how to turn an interesting experience into a riveting story that others can relate to. Bring lots of paper - you'll leave the workshop with a solid start to an engaging personal essay (or heck, maybe even a memoir).
Shari Caudron is the author of Who Are You People?, which received the Colorado Book Award and was chosen for Entertainment Weekly's MUST list. She is also the author of an essay collection titled What Really Happened, which was named a humor finalist in the Book of the Year awards. She has published more than 500 articles and essays in places as diverse as The Best Women's Travel Writing, The Christian Science Monitor, Reader's Digest, and Sunset magazine. She teaches narrative nonfiction at the University of Denver and Lighthouse Writers.
Award-winning author Laura Resau will lead you through the journey of writing a YA novel, from lifting off to flying over clouds. You'll learn how to turn ideas into stories, create vivid worlds, develop strong voices, construct engaging plots, build powerful emotional arcs, and do effective revisions. Bring a pen and paper, and feel yourself sprout wings during fun exercises designed to make your characters and setting come alive.
Laura Resau's debut young adult novel, What the Moon Saw, is a Colorado Book Award winner, an Américas Award Honor Book, a Parents' Choice Award Recommendation, and a Junior Library Guild Selection. In a starred review, Booklist calls What the Moon Saw "a deeply felt, lyrical debut ... a powerful, magical story ... a rare glimpse into an indigenous culture." Resau's second novel, Red Glass-- also set in rural Mexico and dealing with the timely topic of immigration-- is called a "vibrant, large-hearted story" in a starred review by Publishers' Weekly. Resau lived in the Mixtec region of Oaxaca, Mexico, for two years as an English teacher and anthropologist. She now lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, where she writes and teaches English as a Second Language. She is donating a portion of her royalties to indigenous rights organizations in Latin America.
Using such models as Pessoa, Yasusada, Parker's The Imaginary Poets, and others, we will violate rational, common-sense advice by writing about what we don't know. Bring pens, paper, and a sense of fun. Other topics to be addressed as opportunity and whim allow.
Aaron Anstett's collection Sustenance was a finalist for the 1998 Colorado Book Award in Poetry. His second collection, No Accident, was selected by Philip Levine for the 2004 Backwaters Press Prize and won the 2006 Nebraska Book Award and the Balcones Poetry Prize. A new collection, Each Place the Body's, was published in 2007 by Ghost Road Press. His poems have appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Black Warrior Review, Indiana Review, The Ohio Review, Poetry Daily, River City, and Shenandoah among many other journals, and have been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac. He lives in southern Colorado with his children.
It's All in the Details presented by William Haywood Henderson
As a writer, you've got the whole world in your hands. We'll study how specific details can add depth and richness to your work Exercises focus on bringing your voice and vision to life, evoking mood and character through physical detail, and sharpening characterization through well-defined action.
William Haywood Henderson is the author of Augusta Locke (Viking 2006, Penguin 2007), named best novel of 2007 by Westword. August Locke was also a finalist for the Spur Award, the Mountains & Plains Award, and the Willa Award. He is the author of two additional novels:Native and The Rest of the Earth. Henderson was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing at Stanford, and he currently teaches creative writing at Lighthouse Writers Workshop and the University of Denver.
Advanced reservations will be required, as each workshop will be
capped at 20.
Fee: $40 for non ACC students for two workshops
$25 for non
ACC students for one workshop
$20 for ACC students
Lunch is included
for all reservations
To make reservations, please RSVP to this email and send your check or money order by the April 16 to:
ACC Writers Studio Literary Festival
c/o Dr. Kathryn
Winograd
Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences Division
Campus Box
27
5900 S. Santa Fe Drive
P.O. Box 9002
Littleton, CO 80160-9002
Be sure to include the workshops you wish to take.
**No refunds after April 16
