Elizabeth Strout, one of the instructors for UNM’s Taos Summer Writers’ Conference, is the winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her novel in stories, “Olive Kitteridge.” The conference will be held July 12-19 at the Sagebrush Inn.
Strout is also the author of “Abide with Me” and New York Times bestseller “Amy and Isabelle.” Her weeklong workshop, “Getting Started: Finding the Sound,” is designed help writers find the way to begin a story or novel.
The conference offers small, intensive weeklong workshops and master classes and weekend workshops. Agents and editors are available for consultation. Workshops still open as of Monday, April 27 include:
Weeklong Workshops, July 12-17
Fiction Workshop for Serious Writers – Robert Boswell
The Memoir: Challenges and Struggles – Minrose Gwin
The Writer’s “I” – Jesse Lee Kercheval
Poetry Miscellany – Dana Levin and Greg Glazner
The Art of the Sentence, the Art of the Paragraph – Priscilla Long
Beginning Memoir – Barbara Robinette Moss
Fiction as Art Form – Daniel Mueller
Organic Unity: The Marriage of Form and Content in the Short Story – Antonya Nelson
Getting Started: Finding the Sound – Elizabeth Strout
The New Nonfiction: What Everyone is Reading but M.F.A. Programs Aren’t Teaching – Mark Sundeen
Writing the Where of It – Summer Wood
Poetry Master Class – Valerie Martínez
Weekend Workshops, July 18-19
Playing With Your Inner Child: The Art of Children’s Book Writing – Ana Baca
Finding Your Voice, Writing Your Life: On Memoir – Rus Bradburd
Creative Journaling: The Collection of Soulful Stirrings – Charlene Geiss
The Process of Publishing – Elizabeth Hadas
Secret Hearing: Revision as a Transformative Art – Carol Moldaw
Writing Around Taos – Summer Wood
For more information or to register, visit Taos Summer Writers Conference.
Media Contact: Sari Krosinsky, (505) 277-1593; e-mail: michal@unm.edu
Posted by scarr at April 27, 2009 03:44 PM