Flick Creek Writing Workshops

Each year, I teach workshops here in the North Cascades, about three hours east of Seattle, at Flick Creek House on Lake Chelan.

Flick Creek House, owned by photographers Mike and Nancy Barnhart, sits three miles downlake from Stehekin right on the water. The only access is via boat or hiking trail. The scenery is stunning, and the silence (well, other than sloshing water and chirping birds) is complete. The setting, as you can imagine, is very conducive to productive writing.

Each workshop features a balance of reading, writing exercises, sharing, and exploring. The cost includes lodging, instruction, and an optional tour of Stehekin. Registration is limited to six participants.

Contact Ana Maria for more information.

NEXT WORKSHOP: June 9-12, 2012
The Last One Percent: Revising for Cohesion … and Delight

Writer Tobias Wolff has said that 99% of stories get 99% finished.  How do we, as writers, find that elusive one percent that makes a story whole?  Through revision, of course.  Revision can be the most creative stage in the writing process, a chance to “re-vision” your work, to see it anew.  In this workshop, we’ll look at strategies for adding new perspective , for improving beginnings and endings, for sprucing up language, and finally for knowing when to let go and call it done.

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Whidbey Writers MFA Low-Residency Program

January 6 – 15, 2012
August 5-14, 2012

Whidbey Island, Washington

I am delighted to be teaching as permanent nonfiction faculty in the Whidbey Writers Workshop MFA program, the first accredited program in the country that is not affiliated with a university.

This coming January, I will teach the Craft of Nonfiction and Directed Reading in Memoir. The residency is open, by application, to writers who are not enrolled in the MFA program.  This August I will be teaching the nonfiction writing workshop.  Courses are open in other genres (fiction, poetry, children/young adult writing) from the esteemed Whidbey faculty, and the cost of the residency includes a afternoon talks/evening readers by a stellar visiting faculty which has, in the past, included nonfiction writers such as Scott Russell Sanders, Kathleen Dean Moore, and Tim Egan. 

For details see the website http://www.writeonwhidbey.org/mfa/
or drop me an email.

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River Teeth Nonfiction Conference May 18-20, 2012
http://riverteethjournal.wordpress.com/conference/

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Chesapeake Writers' Conference July 11-15, 2012