READINGS AND TALKS
Monday July 26, 2010, 7 p.m. Richard Hugo House, 11th Avenue on Capitol Hill. This is a reading, celebration of the travel issue of Raven Chronicles. Other readers are Anna Balint, Tiffany Midge, and Jeannie Berwick. I will be reading my piece titled "Going to Portland." Wish you would come to "Wish You Were Here!"
Wednesday July 28, 2010, 6 p.m.: Elliott Bay Books, 1521 10th Avenue, Seattle. Launch reading and signing, The Writer's Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life.
Thursday September 30, 2010. 7 p.m., Village Books, 1200 Eleventh Street, Bellingham. Introduction by Laura Kalpakian: Reading and signing, The Writer's Portable Mentor: A Guid to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life.
PRISCILLA LONG COURSES OFFERED
June 2010: Four-session Craft Intensive
Held at the Good Shepherd Center in Wallingford
7 p.m. - 9:15 p.m.
Cost: $275 plus $10 Xeroxing costs (Total $285)
Note: The June intensive is closed.
Tuesday June 22
Wednesday June 23
Tuesday June 29
Wednesday June 30
In this intensive class we scrutinize the forms of several short works and choose one through which to write a new piece. We also intensively work on craft skills (such as sophisticated sentencing) and observational and language skills. The assignments are all due together, bound in a folder, the week after class ends.
July 11-16, 2010: Taos Summer Writers' Conference: The Art of the Sentence, The Art of the Paragraph
The conference is a fabulous gathering held in a creatively historic location, the Sagebrush Inn and Conference Center, in Taos. There is yoga every morning!
First-rate writers use all the sentence forms, and they use particular forms not at random but to carry particular meanings or emotions. This hands-on course in developing virtuoso skills in sentencing and paragraphing is designed for writers of all levels—from beginner to advanced— interested in revising across several short works or across a book-in-progress. During our week together, we'll scrutinize brilliant sentences and paragraphs and we'll deepen our craft skill by writing or revising our own, using identical structures and analogous moves. Always working on our own material (this is not a return to the Third Grade!), we'll shape our sentences to intensify their content, perhaps using a shattered sentence (a fragment) to hold a shattering experience, and a slow, lazy, flowing sentence to hold a slow, lazy, flowing experience. Our new paragraphs will include leaps, turns, flourishes, and, always, transitions. Diction (word choice) is part of it: We'll explore techniques for gathering language that is more original, more true to our own vision, and more sonorous.
For more information or to register go to the Taos Summer Writers' Conference website. See link on left toolbar.
Autumn 2010: Master Class, Prose. Richard Hugo House.
Mondays, 7-9 p.m., 10 sessions, September 13 - November 15, 2010
Registration opens for members of Hugo House on August 17; for nonmembers on August 24.
Serious writers at all levels are welcome to attend this seminar (not workshop). We’ll begin with basic productivity, writing for a short spell every day. We’ll scrutinize models of superb writing, perceiving strategies and moves and incorporating them into our own work. We’ll hone our observation skills; working with language as sound and developing a lexicon practice to leave behind received conventional diction; we’ll hone sophisticated sentencing skills and study deep structures of short pieces. Our plan for this session is to compose four or five new short pieces. Expect to work hard and have fun. No laptops in class please.
For more information or to register go to the Richard Hugo House website: http://www.hugohouse.org/
