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2013 Summer Workshop; Summer Morning Lineup; Afternoon Seminars; the
Perks of Full Week Registration; and What's to Come in June
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Dear writers,
The days are growing longer, and the nights are getting shorter. That means the spring equinox is right around the corner. Like the hours of day and night, you too can find balance for your writing life by planning to attend the Antioch
Writers' Workshop summer workshop, which will take place on July 6 - 12
of 2013. Registration for the summer workshop is open for all online, but not for much longer. In this issue, you can read about:
The
2013 AWW rosters will fill quickly, so complete your registrations
soon! As you know, our website is loaded with information about Antioch
Writers' Workshop and all of the ways to attend.
To get the latest updates, more info about the workshop, and interviews with this summer's faculty, check out our blog, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact
Sharon Short, Director
Antioch Writers' Workshop Email: info@antiochwritersworkshop.com Web: www.antiochwritersworkshop.com |
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The 2013 Summer Schedule
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| For participants opting to include the Saturday Seminar in registration, the 2013 Antioch Writers' Workshop kicks off on Saturday, July 6 at 8:00 a.m. at Antioch University Midwest.
On
the evening of Saturday, July 6 a dessert and wine reception for
Full-Week participants beginning at 6:00 p.m. at Antioch University
Midwest precedes the 7:00 p.m. Keynote Address by Lee Martin, Pulitzer
Prize nominated author of Break the Skin, followed by a book signing.
Sunday, July 7
Noon Box lunch at Antioch University Midwest
1:00 p.m. Faculty Introductions and Participant ice-breaker.
2:30 p.m. Afternoon seminars begin at various locations in Yellow Springs
5:00 p.m. Dinner break
7:00 p.m. Evening Program (Faculty reading)
Monday, July 8 through Friday, July 12
Afternoon seminars at various locations in Yellow Springs; all other events at Antioch University Midwest
8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast (coffee, tea, breakfast pastries, fruit)
8:30 a.m. Fiction with Lee Martin
9:30 a.m. Professional Skills for Writers
10:30 a.m. Poetry with Cathy Smith Bowers
11:30 a.m. Creative Nonfiction with Dinty W. Moore
12:30 p.m. Lunch Break-sign up for lunches with faculty!
1:30 p.m. Two ADDITIONAL Professional Skills for Writers
sessions, Monday and Tuesday Only
Monday--"How to Give a Pitch" (Sharon Short)
Tuesday--"How to Give a Reading" (Tobin Terry)
2:30 p.m. Break out to Afternoon Seminars, held at various locations
5:00 p.m. Dinner Break
7:00 p.m. Evening programs (open to public)
For more information on faculty, registration, afternoon seminars, and A La Carte options, visit our website http://www.antiochwritersworkshop.com or email info@antiochwritersworkshop.com.
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All
full-week participants and those who sign up for the Morning Only A La
Carte option gather for these lectures which include the opportunity to
ask writing questions of the faculty members. The instructors may
incorporate in-class writing or optional homework. These classes are all
held at Antioch University Midwest.
Morning
fiction classes are an examination of the elements of fiction (e.g.,
plot, character, and point of view) with discussion of how these
elements work in successful writing led by Lee Martin, Pulitzer Prize Finalist author of The Bright Forever, and three other novels, including Break the Skin.
Martin's other books are the novels, River of Heaven and Quakertown; the memoirs, Such a Life, From Our House, and Turning Bones; and the short story collection, The Least You Need to Know. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in such places as Harper's, Ms., Creative Nonfiction, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, Fourth Genre, River Teeth, The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, and Glimmer Train.
He is the winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction and
fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts
Council. He teaches in the MFA Program at The Ohio State University,
where he was the winner of the 2006 Alumni Award for Distinguished
Teaching. www.leemartinauthor.com
Morning Poetry with Cathy Smith Bowers
Morning
Poetry classes led by Cathy Smith Bowers are an examination of the
elements of poetry (e.g., form, meter, and sound) with discussion of
examples of successful poems.
Cathy, who was named Poet Laureate of North Carolina in 2010, is the author of four books: The Love that Ended Yesterday in Texas (inaugural winner of the Texas Tech University Press First Book Competition, 1992); Traveling in Time of Danger (Iris Press, 1999), A Book of Minutes (Iris Press, 2004), and The Candle I Hold Up to See You (Iris Press, 2009). Her powerful poems about family and loss have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Georgia Review, Poetry, The Southern Review and The Kenyon Review. She
is currently on the faculty for Queens' M.F.A. in Creative Writing
Program, UNC Asheville's Great Smokies Writing Program and at Wofford
College in Spartanburg, S.C.
Morning Creative Nonfiction/Memoir Instructor-Dinty W. Moore
Morning Creative Nonfiction/Memoir classes led by Dinty W. Moore examine
the elements of nonfiction (e.g., structure, research, and accuracy)
with discussion of how these elements work in successful writing.
Dinty is author of numerous books, including The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life, Crafting the Personal Essay: A Guide for Writing and Publishing Creative Nonfiction, and the memoir Between Panic & Desire, winner
of the Grub Street Nonfiction Book Prize. Having failed as a zookeeper,
modern dancer, Greenwich Village waiter, filmmaker, and wire service
journalist, he now writes essays and stories. He has been published in The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, Harpers, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, Gettysburg Review, Utne Reader, and Crazyhorse,
among numerous other venues. Dinty
lives in Athens, Ohio, which he calls "the funkadelicious,
hillbilly-hippie Appalachian epicenter of the locally-grown,
locally-consumed, goats-are-for-cheese, paw-paws-are-for-eatin',
artisanal-salsa, our-farmers-market-rocks-the-hills sub-culture," where
he grows his own heirloom tomatoes and edible dandelions, and teaches in
and serves as director of Ohio University's BA, MA, and PhD in Creative
Writing program.
Professional Skills for Writers
A different talk every day! Professional Skills for Writers brings together different voices in the writing community.
Monday--Self-Editing Grammar Boot Camp for Writers (Rebecca Kuder and Becky Morean)
Tuesday--Agent Talk by Hannah Brown Gordon (Foundry Literary + Media)
Wednesday--First book talk by AWW alumni Jen Violi
Thursday--Agent Talk by Suzie Townsend (New Leaf Literary)
Friday--Literary Magazine Editors' Panel, with Tobin Terry (Chagrin River Review), Nathan Floom and Jason Teal (Heavy Feather Review), and Christina Dendy and Matthew Birdsall (Mock Turtle Zine)
ADDITIONAL Afternoon Professional Skills for Writers
(NEW THIS YEAR)
Monday--How to Give a Pitch (led by Sharon Short)
Tuesday--How to Give a Reading (led by Tobin Terry)
Register for the Full-Week or Morning Only A La Cart Option on our website.
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Afternoon Seminars
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Afternoon
Seminars (Sunday through Friday) are held at various locations in the
charming village of Yellow Springs. To attend any of the fiction, poetry
or nonfiction afternoon seminars, participants must register for the
FULL WEEK program and must commit to bringing a manuscript for sharing
and workshop except in "Getting Started in Fiction/Nonfiction," the only afternoon seminar not requiring a manuscript.
Participants
may enroll in any one of the following seminars and are encouraged to
determine the most appropriate fit for their work. Each seminar is
limited to 12 participants who commit themselves to attend all sessions
and to read and comment thoughtfully and constructively on the other
participants' manuscripts. In addition to manuscript critique, time may
be devoted to discussion of writing techniques, in-class exercises, and
examples of the work of published writers. Assignments may be made by
the instructor.
Afternoon Fiction Seminar--Sherri Wood Emmons
Sherri
Wood Emmons is a freelance writer and editor. She is a graduate of
Earlham College and the University of Denver Publishing Institute. A
mother of three, she lives in Indiana with her husband, two fat beagles,
and four spoiled cats. Her novels include Prayers and Lies and The Sometimes Daughter, both published by Kensington. www.sherriwoodemmons.com
Afternoon Fiction Seminar--Short Fiction Focus--Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay's writing appears or is forthcoming in Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, New Stories From the Midwest 2011 and 2012, Salon, Oxford American, NOON, American Short Fiction, Indiana Review, Brevity, The Rumpus, and many others. She is the co-editor of PANK, the essays editor for The Rumpus, and teaches writing at Eastern Illinois University. She is also the author of Ayiti, a collection of writing about the Haitian diaspora experience and has other books on the horizon.
Afternoon Fiction Seminar--Jeffrey Ford
Jeffrey Ford is the author of the novels, The Physiognomy, Memoranda, The Beyond, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, The Girl in the Glass, The Cosmology of the Wider World, and The Shadow Year. His story collections are The Fantasy Writer's Assistant, The Empire of Ice Cream, The Drowned Life, and Crackpot Palace. His short fiction has appeared in numerous journals, magazines and anthologies, from MAD Magazine to The Oxford Book of American Short Stories
(2nd edition), edited by Joyce Carol Oates. His work has been
translated into nearly 20 languages and is the recipient of the Edgar
Allan Poe Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the World Fantasy Award, the
Nebula Award, and the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire
Afternoon Fiction Seminar--Casey Daniels
Casey
Daniels is the author of the popular Pepper Martin mystery series, in
which Pepper works at a historic cemetery and solves mysteries for the
ghosts there. In addition, Casey has a new series, the Button Box
mysteries, written as Kylie Logan. Casey has also written both
historical and contemporary romances as well as books for young adults
and one children's book. She lives in the Cleveland area and teaches
fiction writing classes at the Brecksville Center for the Arts. She is a
frequent presenter at workshops nationwide. Learn more about Casey at www.caseydaniels.com.
Afternoon Poetry Seminar Instructor--Cathryn Essinger
Cathryn Essinger is the author of three books of poetry--A Desk In The Elephant House, which won the Walt McDonald First Book Award from Texas Tech University Press, and My Dog Does Not Read Plato, which was the runner up in the Main Street Rag book competition in 2004. Her third book, What I Know About Innocence,
was published in 2009, also from Main Street Rag press, and includes a
video poem produced by her son, David, a fiction writer and professor at
the University of Findlay. Essinger's poems have been anthologized in The Poetry Anthology: 1912-2002, Poetry Daily: 366 Poems, and in O Taste and See: Food Poems. Her work has been featured on Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac. Her new work has appeared in such places as The Southern Review, New England Review, and Quarterly West.
She received an Ohio Arts Council grant and was Ohio's Poet of the Year
in 2005. She is a member of The Greenville Poets, a small but
well-published poetry group that does workshop presentations and
supports the work of younger writers. She is a retired Professor of
English from Edison Community College, in Piqua, Ohio.
Afternoon Creative Nonfiction/Memoir Seminar
Instructor--Matthew Goodman
Matthew Goodman is the author of three books of non-fiction. His latest, the narrative history Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World,
will be published in 2013 by Ballantine Books. It has been translated
into seven languages and was chosen as a Barnes & Noble Spring 2013
Discover Great New Writers selection. His previous book, The Sun and
the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling
Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York, was a Borders Books Original Voices selection and was named one of the Best Books of the Year by The Economist magazine. Matthew's essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in numerous publications including The American Scholar, Harvard Review, Bon Appetit, the Forward, and the Utne Reader,
and he has taught writing in many colleges and writing conferences,
among them the Antioch Writers' Workshop and the Chautauqua Writers
Institute. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and two
children.
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"Getting Started in Writing Fiction and Nonfiction" is the only Afternoon Seminar available as an A La Carte option. This is also the only Afternoon Seminar that does not require participants to provide a manuscript.
In the first half of the week, a published author in each form (fiction, non-fiction and poetry) will discuss one form each day and provide exercises to start participants on a piece of work. In the second half of the week, participants will continue one of the pieces begun earlier in the week under the guidance author Greg Belliveau.
Greg Belliveau is a 2008 Christopher Isherwood Grant Recipient, an Honorable Mention in Glimmer Train's January 2012 Short-Short Fiction Contest, as well as the 2002 Christy Award finalist for Best First Novel, Go Down To Silence (Multnomah: a Division of Random House, 2001). He has been published in The Atticus Review, The Cleveland Review, Vine Leaves of
which his vignette "LG Don't Want To Fly" was selected for their 2012
Best Of Anthology to be published by eMergent Publishing, December 2012.
He received his MFA from Pacific University, Oregon, and he currently
resides with his wife and two daughters in Ohio.
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Afternoon seminar options for this year's Antioch Writers'
Workshop Full Week Experience are filling quickly, so be sure to
register soon!
In addition to all morning classes and your choice of afternoon seminar, the Full Week Experience includes
perks not available to A La Carte registrants including individual
pitch sessions with visiting agents Agents Suzie Townsend (New Leaf) and
Hannah Gordon (Folio Literary and Media). Both agents are interested in
a wide variety of fiction and nonfiction projects and are actively
looking for new clients.
Participants can also take advantage
of lunch opportunities with faculty, an evening participant reading,
one-on-one manuscript consultations (for additional small fee), and a
reduced cost for the Saturday Seminar, a one-day writing seminar in craft, nuts and bolts, and inspiration.
The Full Week Experience kicks off at Antioch University Midwest with a Keynote Address by author Lee Martin on the evening of Saturday, July 6 followed by a dessert and wine reception. The event concludes on Friday, July 12. To register for the Full Week Experience, visit our website. For more information visit www.antiochwritersworkshop.com or email Sharon Short at info@antiochwritersworkshop.com . |
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Approaching Registration Deadlines |
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The deadlines to
register for this summer's Antioch Writers' Workshop are fast
approaching. Here's a rundown of the days you don't want to miss!
FRIDAY, MAY 31 -- Young Writers Program The students in the Young Writers' program develop their craft, learn from outstanding mentors, create long-lasting friendships, and make a nice addition to their college applications. The program is a great a way to help develop the next generation of creative writers of fiction, poetry and nonfiction, and we're excited to again offer this program. READ MORE
SUNDAY, JUNE 9 -- Full Week Experience
This year's Full Week Experience includes all morning classes, your choice of afternoon seminar, and perks not
available to A La Carte registrants including individual pitch sessions
with visiting agents, lunch opportunities with faculty, an evening
participant reading, one-on-one manuscript consultations (for additional
small fee), and a reduced cost for the Saturday Seminar.
Afternoon Seminar spots are filling fast, so register for the Full-Week Experience soon!
TUESDAY, JULY 2 -- A La Carte Options
Registration
for A La Carte Options Deadline is July 2. While we'd love for you to
attend the Full Week Antioch Writers' Workshop (and we know you'd like
to, too), sometimes a full week commitment just doesn't fit a writer's
schedule.
Antioch Writers' Workshop's A La Carte
Options (all held at Antioch University Midwest in Yellow Springs,
Ohio), are designed for writers who are testing the writing waters,
writers who are looking for a quick dose of inspiration, writers who
don't have a full week available to attend the full conference, or
writers who want to try a portion of the workshop before committing to
attending for the full week in a future year.
A La Carte
options include the Saturday Seminar, Morning Only Classes, Afternoon
"Focus on Form" Seminar, and the John Grogan Master Class. Register for A La Carte Options today!
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Young Writers Program Deadline -- May 31 | ||
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The deadline to enter the Young
Writers' Program is Friday, May 31. The program offers an opportunity
for young writers (those entering 10th-12th grades in fall 2013, or ages
15-18) to attend the workshop held at Antioch University Midwest in
Yellow Springs, July 6-12.
Young writers must submit three pages of creative writing and a letter of recommendation from a teacher, librarian, coach or youth program leader, to the workshop by May 29. Selected writers receive an AWW Young Writers' Scholarship in the amount of $375.00, reducing the total cost of attending to $300.00 for a full week of writing classes, a special writing seminar, and lunches all provided by Dayton Daily News sponsors.
This opportunity is limited to 12 participants and open to students who live in the Ohio counties of Greene, Miami, Montgomery, Clark, Clinton, Fayette, Madison and Warren. Accepted applicants will be notified shortly after May 29. To apply or for more information about the program, please visit the Young Writers page at www.antiochwritersworkshop.com or email info@antiochwritersworkshop.com.
Check out what former AWW Young Writers had to say about last year's program.
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Second Sunday Free Writers' Workshop -- May 19
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Antioch Writers' Workshop and Books & Co are offering the next
Free Writers' Workshop on May 19, 2:00-3:30 p.m. at Books & Co at
The Greene. The workshop, "Improv for Introverts," presented by Black
Box Theatre Group will help writers apply improv techniques to overcome
fears about writing and create great characters and scenes.
The Black Box Theatre Group brings the Chicago born performance
art to Dayton as long form improv, a "completely improvised one act
play, complete with multiple characters each with unique relationships
often intertwining in ways that seem like they were written ahead of
time." You can read more about Black Box Theatre Group on their website.
Join
Black Box Theatre Group to learn more about how improv can help your
writing at Books & Co at The Green on May 19 from 2:00 to 3:30 PM.
No reservations are required for the Second Sunday Free Writers'
Workshop, but expressed intention to attend is appreciated. Call Books
& Co at The Greene at 937- 429-6302.
For
more information about Antioch Writers' Workshop or the Second Sunday
Free Writers' Workshop, visit http://www.antiochwritersworkshop.com or
email info@antiochwritersworkshop.com.
The
Antioch Writers' Workshop will be held July 6-12, 2013 in partnership
with Antioch University Midwest and with support from the Ohio Arts
Council.
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What's to Come in June
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Be on the lookout for more from
the Antioch Writers' Workshop as we prepare for what is shaping up to
be a spectacular week in July. This June, we will announce scholarship
winners, the evening reading schedule, and more about A La Carte
programs.
We encourage you to also follow our blog, Facebook, and Twitter accounts for future updates and insights from this summer's faculty. Hope to see you soon! #AWWsummer2013
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