PAM'S
UPCOMING APPEARANCES 2007
Newly
added dates in RED
April 2007:
April 21-28 - Mallorca, Spain - "Writing Between Life and Fiction"
June:
June 17-22 - Provincetown, MA - Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center
July:
July 8-14 - Taos, NM - Taos Writers Conference
July 23-26 - Ouray, CO - San Juan Workshops
October:
October 5-7 - Pt. Townsend, WA - Intensive Revision Workshop at Centrum
24-29 - Tomales Bay, CA - Tomales Bay Workshops
Pam
Houston teaches every year at the Aspen
Summer Words, the
Taos Writer's Conference (ctc: taosconf@unm.edu)
and at the Provincetown Fine
Arts Work Center (ctc: workshops@FAWC.org).
She also teaches in the graduate writing program at
University of California, Davis.
April 21-28, 2007
Mallorca, Spain
"Writing Between Life and Fiction"
My goal as workshop leader is to create an environment where beginning and seasoned writers become excited about taking both stylistic and emotional risks with their work.
We will begin with exercises that will set the theme for the week: the way we take the details from the physical world that resonate for us and translate them into words and paragraphs that will help us access the beautiful and frightening stories we have to tell.
Allowing the physical landscape of a story to stand in and represent our emotional landscapes, I believe, is the most essential craft, the real artistry of fiction.
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