Upcoming Classes & Workshops

"Telling True Stories: A Seminar on Narrative"
co-sponsored by the Press Club of Cleveland
and The Plain Dealer
The Plain Dealer offices
Cleveland, Ohio
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
9:00 am to 2:00 pm
In this participatory, four-hour workshop (with a lunch break) for Cleveland area journalists, the focus will be on advanced techniques in writing narrative journalism.
For more information and to register, contact the Press Club of Cleveland.

“30 Ways to Tell the Story”
One-day (four-hour) class
Richard Hugo House
Capitol Hill, Seattle
Saturday, October 11, 2008
1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
In this fast-paced afternoon, we'll zoom through two-and-a-half-dozen writing exercises, searching for the best way to get those words on the page. If there’s a story (factual or otherwise) you’ve been itching to tell, or a poem prowling your mind, this is your chance to anchor those words to the page. Multimedia writing prompts – questions, answers, lines of poetry, images, sounds, even smells – will help us open the dusty drawers of memory and empty them out. Each participant will leave with a completed draft that’s ready for revision.
Registration begins August 2008 at the Richard Hugo House website.

"Escritura de no-ficción"
Casa de Escritores / House of Writers
Online
febrero y marzo de 2009
En este curso de dos meses, aprenderemos los elementos básicos del "periodismo narrativo” -- la escritura de no-ficción creativa – en la tradición de Galeano, García Márquez, y Poniatowska. El curriculum está basado en la antología Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers’ Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University (Contando Cuentos Verdaderos: Una Guía para Escritores de No-Ficción, casa editorial Plume/Penguin, Nueva York, 2007).
Inscribáse aquí.

Whidbey Island Writers Conference
Trinity Lutheran Church, Freeland
South Whidbey High School, Langley
Whidbey Island, Washington
Friday, February 27 through Sunday, March 1, 2009
Stay tuned for more details about the nonfiction offerings at this comprehensive writers' conference sponsored by the Whidbey Island Writers Association.
See more information and register here.