This
intensive three-day conference features a variety of poetry and prose workshops,
each with 10 or fewer participants. This is a conference where you write!
Of course you will receive feedback, but our workshops emphasize creating new material.
Choose one workshop to focus on during the conference.
Our programs fill quickly. Register today. You won't regret it.
Fiction |
Creative Nonfiction |
Memoir |
Tutorials
 Beginning Your Novel - Filled*
This workshop will help you begin the novel you've always wanted
to write. Come with ideas and notes, and develop a plan for
writing a must-read book. Learn how to structure your plot,
develop your characters, explore different points of view and
improve your dialogue-writing skills. Discussions, writing
prompts and supportive feedback will get your big project off to
an energized start.
Limited to 10 participants - Led by
Michelle Cameron
Finishing Your Novel
- Filled*
Stuck? This workshop is for writers who are mired in a long
prose piece and need a spark to advance. Exercises, analyses and
thoughtful encouragement will help you continue--especially if
you're serious about publishing and want to overcome the
changing dynamics of the industry. Our motivating workshop
leader will continue to coach you during the months following
the Getaway to help you finish your manuscript and work on
finding an agent. Be ready to submit up to 20 pages of your
novel plus a 2 page synopsis by Dec. 15. The workshop leader and
participants will read each manuscript before the Getaway.
Limited to just 4 participants - $200 surcharge
for this workshop - Led by Carol Plum-Ucci
Visions and Revision: Creative Nonfiction & Novel
- Filled*
What will keep an editor reading? How can you make your writing
stand out? This workshop will help you polish and focus your
prose—creative nonfiction or novel—so it
rings true to your vision. Feedback and encouragement will help
make your writing stronger, and revising will lead to even
greater vision. Be ready to submit 2-5 pages on which you need
feedback a week or so after you register. The workshop leader and participants will
read each submission before the Getaway.
Limited to 8 participants - Led by
Robbie Clipper
Writing and Publishing Your Fiction - Filled*
This workshop will play with the fundamentals of fiction—plot,
structure, voice, point of view, character development and
dialogue—to get you writing. On Saturday and Sunday mornings,
you will receive inspiring prompts which you can use as the
starting points for two new stories or a weekend-long project.
In the afternoons you will receive generous and helpful
feedback. Monday morning will be full of insider information and advice
on where and how to submit your work for publication.
Limited to 10 participants - Led by
Richard K. Weems
Writing for the Children's Market
This workshop will explore the different genres of juvenile
literature and focus on the key elements of writing—creating
character, plot, setting, dialogue, point of view, conflict, and
the use of detail. You will practice methods for keeping the
reader interested and work on your revision technique. Exercises
and prompts will provide springboards for discussion and
feedback. We will conclude the weekend with a discussion of how
the publishing world has changed and submission strategies.
Works in progress welcome.
Limited to 10 participants - Led by Pamela
Curtis Swallow
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The Art & Craft of Creative Nonfiction -
Filled*
We all have true stories to tell about worlds we know well and
new worlds we discover daily. This workshop will show how to
capture both, using the power of voice, storytelling, memory and
grace of language to make your nonfiction writing come alive.
Working from in-class exercises, we'll explore strategies for
turning fragments of memory and/or observation into personal
essay, profiles or narrative journalism. This workshop will help
you advance whether you already have work in progress or are
just getting started.
Limited to 10 participants - Led by
Thomas Peele
Visions and Revision: Creative Nonfiction & Novel
- Filled*
What will keep an editor reading? How can you make your writing
stand out? This workshop will help you polish and focus your
prose—creative nonfiction or novel—so it
rings true to your vision. Feedback and encouragement will help
make your writing stronger, and revising will lead to even
greater vision. Be ready to submit 2-5 pages on which you need
feedback a week or so after you register. The workshop leader and participants will
read each submission before the Getaway.
Limited to 8 participants - Led by
Robbie Clipper
Register today!
*Interested in a workshop that is filled? View our
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Turning Memory into Memoir
- Filled*
Learn to
transform your life experience into well-crafted literary prose.
Open your senses, dig into memory and use the tools of language,
voice, pacing, image and structure to help you write vivid,
meaningful memoirs. We'll talk about questions of authenticity,
memory, truth-telling and the ethics of writing about living
people.
Limited to 10 participants - Ideal for those who are getting started
- Led by Anndee Hochman
What Matters is Not What Happened:
Advanced Memoir
- Filled*
Using Vivian Gornick's famous line about "what matters," we'll
investigate the best way to tell your story in this advanced
memoir workshop. With your own memoir-in-progress as a
springboard, you will explore the importance of seeing your
first-person narrator as a character in your story, experiment
with writing exercises, and discuss your new work. Be ready to
submit 2-5 pages on which you need feedback a week or so after
you register. The workshop leader and participants will read each submission
before the Getaway.
Limited to 10 participants - Ideal for those who
have work in progress - Led by Barbara Hurd
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Tutorial in Prose - Filled*
In addition to your workshop, you can sign up for one or two
individual twenty minute feedback sessions with a faculty member
in which you will receive a constructive critique on a
manuscript, essay or story you are not sharing in your workshop.
Be ready to submit your piece a week or so after you register—up to 15 pages
(double-spaced, 1" margins, with 12 pt font) and a 1 page
synopsis.
Additional $100 fee or this one-on-one session -
Led by members of our
Faculty
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