Writing Story / Finding Poetry / Freeing Voice

June 13, 2010

Just a quick announcement to let you know that I will again be teaching online for writers.com/writers on the net, session  for Part One beginning June 15, 2010, and session for Part Two beginning June 22nd, 2010:  Claiming Our Stories: Working with the Power of Autobiography and Autobiographical Fiction. Part One and Part Two.
These [...]

Claiming and Polishing the Power of Our Stories: Intensive critique classes online in fiction and memoir.  (10 weeks) Begins February 2, 2010! Classes every other week for 10 weeks.
This is an advanced writers’ workshop open both to writers who have studied with me, or those who have not but are invited to participate after sending [...]

2010 Writers and Artists Research Delegation to Cuba! January 3-11, 2010.
A group of writers, visual artists, educators and others will be going to Cuba January 3-11. We will stay in Old Havana, as well as visit nearby Matanzas province and Varadero Beach. We will meet with Cuban writers, artists, filmmakers, architects and others, and individual [...]

Dear Writers,
I want to let people know that the story class I announced previously at this site will be starting this Wednesday, October 7. I am very excited about these classes. I taught these story classes, and developed an extensive series of these classes, throughout New Mexico. Stunning writing came forward. And there are, some years after [...]

Bookmaking:  a six hour writing intensive workshop to jumpstart and/or revitalize your book project
Hosted by TRUE COLORS BOOKSTORE
   
 In this workshop we will explore creating your book, no matter what genre you have chosen—fiction (short stories/novel), memoir (prose/poetry).  We will examine the stories you need to tell in order to discover the theme of your project.  [...]

Dear Friends,
I won’t tell you know where I have been. But I will tell you where I am going to be. And what I will be doing in relation to teaching writing, right here in the Twin Cities in Minnesota.
Here we go, classes first, then news of a workshop, locally in Minneapolis:
Finding the Real Story: [...]

Just a quick announcement to let you know that I will again be teaching online for writers.com/writers on the net, sessions beginning May 4:  Claiming Our Stories: Working with the Power of Autobiography and Autobiographical Fiction. Part One and Part Two.
These are both 10 week courses for writers of both memoir/creative nonfiction and fiction. For full [...]

March 10, 2009,
Below is an announcement for a reading this Friday in the Minneapolis area, near the astonishing Mississippi River.
I am racing to do too much. Little wheels spinning like a cartoon character. Haven’t posted. Great excuses. The world is the biggest. Visiting my senator (we still only have one in Minnesota), and my representative.
But [...]

July 30, 2008
Dear Writers, 
I wouldn’t exactly say I am on a roll, like some blog-crazy youngster, but I do feel the need to write more on writing, this big mystery, not as great a mystery as determining the location and nature of evil, or understanding what love actually is, but it is a grand mystery [...]

Dear Friends,
Get in on it! 
February 25, 2008 I will begin teaching an online class for Writers.com called Claiming Our Stories: Working with the Power of Autobiography and Autobiographical Fiction. There are not many places left, so if you have been fencesitting, jump in and sign up as soon as possible! I am very excited about it, and aim [...]