GORDON BURGETT
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TERRY EHRET
Creative Writing Workshops with Terry Ehret
Terry Ehret offers two creative writing workshops each semester through the Sitting Room in Cotati. The workshops are held on Mondays and Fridays, 9 am to noon. The Monday workshop focuses on poetry and the Friday workshop on the prose poem. They run for 8 weeks September through November, and February through April. For current and future workshop information, contact her at tehret99@comcast.net, or visit the workshop page on her website: www.terryehret.com.
B. Lynn Goodwin - Writer Advice www.writeradvice.com
We have a super summer issue of Writer Advice with lots of great new material. Find it at Writer Advice, www.writeradvice.com.
1. Read some exceptional stories by Steven Bakalyar, Mary Rudy, Denise Turner, and Francine Garson, the winners of Writer Advice's Fifth Annual Flash Prose Contest.
2. Read an interview with Zoe Fitzgerald Carter, author of the fascinating memoir, Imperfect Endings.
3. Find new Contests & Markets, assorted reviews in Hooked on Books and Website Reviews, and Writing Advice.
4. Read the contributions of our interns, Brooke Kaelin, Laura Mining, and Rachel Rosman.
5. Read about upcoming events and workshops for You Want Me to Do WHAT? Journaling for Caregivers.
6. Try a Manuscript Consultation.
8. Forward the Writer Advice link to your writing groups, book groups, writing clubs, editors, and anyone who might be interested.
9. If you have a writing product or service, consider advertising it on Writer Advice. E-mail Lgood67334@comcast.net for information.
DANIEL COSHNEAR
Dan teaches fiction writing classes through UC Berkeley Extension and Sonoma State Extension. He has an ongoing writers’ workshop which meets in Penngrove. This writing workshop typically meets once every two weeks on Wednesday evenings, 6 or 8 sessions per semester. Cost is $25 per class.
Daniel Coshnear is author of Jobs & Other Preoccupations (Helicon Nine 2001), and recipient of a number of story awards, including the Editors’ Prize from The Missouri Review 2005, and a Christopher Isherwood Foundation Fellowship. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University in 1999, and has been teaching writing workshops ever since.
For more info please contact Dan at Dan@coshnear.org or 707-869-0329.
BECCA LAWTON
Environmental Poetry Series
$100 + $20 donation to Sitting Room (Note from Marlene: Please check with Becca to confirm price)
PARTIAL SCHOLARSHIPS ARE AVAILABLE, please ask!
Becca Lawton: Writing about nature, our experiences in the outdoors, and the environmental big picture is something that many of us aspire to do with devotion, passion, and attention to detail. In this series we’ll share close readings of some acclaimed environmental poets (Gary Snyder, Mary Oliver, Leslie Marmon Silko, and others), and we’ll compose poetry of our own on natural themes. Please come prepared to read and discuss, write from prompts, and explore leads and inspirations we brainstorm ourselves. Our goal will be to support each other in creating publishable work; we’ll all leave the final class with at least three opportunities to pursue to get poems created in session into print.
Rebecca Lawton, author and natural scientist, won the Ellen Meloy Award for Desert Writers and other awards and has been nominated for Pushcart Prizes in prose and poetry. Her memoir, Reading Water: Lessons from the River, was a San Francisco Chronicle Bay Area Bestseller in 2008. She has taught with California Poets in the Schools, Mendocino Coast Writers Conference, Redwood Writers Club, Petaluma Writers Forum, and Write Free classes (with Jordan E. Rosenfeld).
Contact Becca: Email: becca@beccalawton.com, Website: www.beccalawton.com Correspondence: P.O. Box 654, Vineburg, Ca 95487-0654
JORDAN ROSENFELD
Jordan Rosenfeld teaches a series of online classes on "Fiction's Magic Ingredient," to better your craft and lead you toward publication.
Jordan E. Rosenfeld is a columnist for Writer's Digest magazine, a freelance editor and writer, and author of two writing books: Make a Scene, and with Rebecca Lawton, Write Free: Attracting the Creative Life. Her publications include the San Francisco Chronicle, the St. Petersburg Times, Hospitality Style, the Writer and more. She is also co-editor of the Write Free bimonthly e-newsletter. www.writefree.us.
Website url: www.jordanrosenfeld.wordpress.com
For class information: www.jordanrosenfeld.net/events-classes.html
