Do you want to write, but you’re not sure what to write about? Do you have so many different ideas you can’t figure out which one to settle into? Do you get excited about an idea one day and the watch that fizzle out the next? Do you have an idea but you’re not sure if it’s big enough or important enough to become a story or an essay or novel or a memoir?
Come to this workshop designed to help you sort out just what story you have to tell that is uniquely and freshly yours. With the help of visual aids, writing exercises and in-class discussion, you’ll sharpen your sense of yourself of a writer, what matters to you as a writer, and how to keep that creative urgency fresh and alive through the weeks and months and years of writing a short piece or a book-length project.
Karen Bjorneby started writing by participating in workshops just like this one. She is the author of Hurricane Season: Stories from the Eye of the Storm (Sourcebooks, 2001), which received a Foreword Honorable Mention as best independent/university press short story collection of the year at Book Expo America. She has received a Pushcart Special Mention, two other Pushcart nominations, a National Magazine Award nomination, and she was named a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in nearly two dozen publications including The Threepenny Review, The North American Review, New Letters, StoryQuarterly, Confrontation, The New Orleans Review, The Nebraska Review, and The Sun. In addition to editing her own work, Karen has helped edit other writers’ short stories, novels and memoirs as they moved from draft to publication. She is currently at work on her own novel and, she says, is “very familiar with the pitfalls along the way, having fallen into several of them myself.”
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Come to this workshop designed to help you sort out just what story you have to tell that is uniquely and freshly yours. With the help of visual aids, writing exercises and in-class discussion, you’ll sharpen your sense of yourself of a writer, what matters to you as a writer, and how to keep that creative urgency fresh and alive through the weeks and months and years of writing a short piece or a book-length project.
Karen Bjorneby started writing by participating in workshops just like this one. She is the author of Hurricane Season: Stories from the Eye of the Storm (Sourcebooks, 2001), which received a Foreword Honorable Mention as best independent/university press short story collection of the year at Book Expo America. She has received a Pushcart Special Mention, two other Pushcart nominations, a National Magazine Award nomination, and she was named a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in nearly two dozen publications including The Threepenny Review, The North American Review, New Letters, StoryQuarterly, Confrontation, The New Orleans Review, The Nebraska Review, and The Sun. In addition to editing her own work, Karen has helped edit other writers’ short stories, novels and memoirs as they moved from draft to publication. She is currently at work on her own novel and, she says, is “very familiar with the pitfalls along the way, having fallen into several of them myself.”
Do you want to write, but you’re not sure what to write about? Do you have so many different ideas you can’t figure out which one to settle into? Do you get excited about an idea one day and the watch that fizzle out the next? Do you have an idea but you’re not sure if it’s big enough or important enough to become a story or an essay or novel or a memoir?
Come to this workshop designed to help you sort out just what story you have to tell that is uniquely and freshly yours. With the help of visual aids, writing exercises and in-class discussion, you’ll sharpen your sense of yourself of a writer, what matters to you as a writer, and how to keep that creative urgency fresh and alive through the weeks and months and years of writing a short piece or a book-length project.
Karen Bjorneby started writing by participating in workshops just like this one. She is the author of Hurricane Season: Stories from the Eye of the Storm (Sourcebooks, 2001), which received a Foreword Honorable Mention as best independent/university press short story collection of the year at Book Expo America. She has received a Pushcart Special Mention, two other Pushcart nominations, a National Magazine Award nomination, and she was named a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in nearly two dozen publications including The Threepenny Review, The North American Review, New Letters, StoryQuarterly, Confrontation, The New Orleans Review, The Nebraska Review, and The Sun. In addition to editing her own work, Karen has helped edit other writers’ short stories, novels and memoirs as they moved from draft to publication. She is currently at work on her own novel and, she says, is “very familiar with the pitfalls along the way, having fallen into several of them myself.”
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Come to this workshop designed to help you sort out just what story you have to tell that is uniquely and freshly yours. With the help of visual aids, writing exercises and in-class discussion, you’ll sharpen your sense of yourself of a writer, what matters to you as a writer, and how to keep that creative urgency fresh and alive through the weeks and months and years of writing a short piece or a book-length project.
Karen Bjorneby started writing by participating in workshops just like this one. She is the author of Hurricane Season: Stories from the Eye of the Storm (Sourcebooks, 2001), which received a Foreword Honorable Mention as best independent/university press short story collection of the year at Book Expo America. She has received a Pushcart Special Mention, two other Pushcart nominations, a National Magazine Award nomination, and she was named a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in nearly two dozen publications including The Threepenny Review, The North American Review, New Letters, StoryQuarterly, Confrontation, The New Orleans Review, The Nebraska Review, and The Sun. In addition to editing her own work, Karen has helped edit other writers’ short stories, novels and memoirs as they moved from draft to publication. She is currently at work on her own novel and, she says, is “very familiar with the pitfalls along the way, having fallen into several of them myself.”
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