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Participants will attend two writing workshops. Our Award winning instructors will vary from year to year; however, we will have workshops in fiction, non-fiction, memoir, poetry and screen writing. Workshops are designed to assist writers in the craft and the business of writing. Each workshop consists of 12 - 14 participants. All participants--except beginners--must submit their manuscript 60 days prior to departure. Your work should be either a prose work of no more than 25 pages, a short story perhaps, or a chapter from a novel, memoir, or play no longer than 20 -25 pages (instructors set the page limits), a group of poems--no more than eight--, or screenplay.
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You'll be in two workshops a day--5 days, 2 1/2 hours per workshop. In each session, in addition to discussing specific elements of craft, the group discusses two, sometimes three, participant manuscripts. During the course of the week, one manuscript by each participant is critiqued. To ensure that each piece of writing receives concentrated attention, there will be no more than 14 writers in the group. Each piece of writing will be read by all participants, with the aim of providing constructive, critical feedback and engaging in supportive dialogue with its author. The class, led by the tutor, will offer constructive criticism and advice to each student on a rota basis, and they will be expected to revise in their own time their work and produce the revisions for later workshops. By the end of the week each student should have had two sessions at least devoted to their writing in class, and one tutorial with the tutor and gained some sense of development in their writing."
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Dorothy Allison teaching a workshop. Some authors may give you an assignment in advance, if you're given an assignment it's crucial you read it before your workshop begin. You will also be given stories, poems or plays from every participant in your workshop. Since our time is precious, you must read these stories in advance and bring these stories with you. PLEASE COPY AND BRING ALL STORIES, POEMS AND PLAYS WITH YOU, we are unable to bring extra copies with us.
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