Classes

Day-Long Seminar in Topanga Canyon

Craft + Pitch in Topanga

Saturday, July 28th

Ready to get out of a writing rut and/or publish some of your stories? Spend the day in a relaxing intensive with two writing professionals. Generate new material from writing prompts designed to mine the imagination while learning how to send your work into the world of literary journals, consumer magazines and content-hungry websites. We’ll also look at “before and after” versions of essays, demonstrating how rewrites focus our ideas and voice.

  • Writing prompts & exercises
  • Small group feedback
  • Hands-on practice writing queries (optional), using real-life examples
  • Clear-eyed looks at the editorial process
  • Practical advice on connection and rejection
  • Studying how rewriting can be a polishing pleasure, not a chore
  • Catered lunch
  • Optional hiking and freewriting/wandering time
  • Poolside readings

 

Find where your work fits in the ever-changing market and reap the rewards of a long day of collaboration with two published memoir writers, Shawna Kenney, and Liz Stephens, on a writing adventure in a nurturing, literary environment. Creative nonfiction, memoir, essay, traditional narratives and inventive, explosive forms all welcome; unpublished or prize-winning writers welcome.

 

Option to workshop existing material or share new material generated by writing prompts. Class culminates in a celebratory reading (or your celebratory attendance at the same, if you desire not to read).

 

Class is held in an inspirational and charming community in an historically registered setting overlooking Los Angeles and the Santa Monica Mountains.

 

Expect conversation between the instructors on crafting a writing life, with time for questions covering aspects of nonfiction such as ethics of writing about others, the benefits of research, the perils of publication, the holes in memory, and more.

 

Saturday, July 28th

11 am – 5pm

Class capped at 20.

 

$200 reserves your spot now

Reserve now.

 

Total cost: $250 after July 1st.

(pay by July 1st and get $50 off total)

Top O’ Topanga

3360 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd.

Community Clubhouse

 

 

Summer Writing Retreat in DENMARK – 2018

Treat yourself to a luxurious week-long writing retreat in the Danish countryside next summer, mentored by myself and Danish writer Anja Klemp Vilgaard. Last year we had so much fun!

Details here:

Hamlet’s Hideaway

August 12 – August 18, 2018

 

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