Upcoming Classes & Workshops

"Make a Scene!"
Four-hour workshop
Richard Hugo House
Capitol Hill, Seattle
1:00 to 5:00 pm
Saturday, July 11, 2009
A four-hour, high-energy exploration of scene-setting. Writers of both fiction and nonfiction will learn a twelve-step process to make events (re)created on the page richer and deeper. We’ll become playwrights, giving our characters their lines. We’ll be directors, too, moving our characters about the stage. We’ll work as stagehands to our stories, creating the backdrop that will transform our prose into an uninterrupted dream for our readers. Please bring a draft or outline of an important scene from a work-in-progress.
Register at the Richard Hugo House website.

"Twelve Ways to Improve Your Nonfiction Prose"
"Doce Senderos Hacia una Narrativa"
two short workshops (one in English, otro en español)
Port Townsend Writers' Conference
Centrum at Fort Worden State Park
Port Townsend, Washington
"Twelve Ways," Monday, July 13, 2009, 2:00 to 3:30 pm
"Doce Senderos," Tuesday, July 14, 2009, 2:00 to 3:30 pm
In "Twelve Ways," we'll zoom through a dozen suggestions for improving the literary and narrative quality of your nonfiction prose, with examples from some of our best-loved nonfiction word-workers.
En "Doce Senderos" tomaremos nuestra inspiración de algunos de los y las mejores escritores de las Américas. Será una fiesta de ejercicios de "escritura libre."
These short workshops are part of the afternoon workshop program of the Port Townsend Writers' Conference. Learn more about this excellent annual conference here.

In Winter / Spring 2010, I will be teaching the twenty-week Nonfiction Writing Seminar and Portfolio course in the University of Washington's Nonfiction Certificate Program. Learn more about the nine-month program here.