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January 2003 |
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All
classes are held at the Hudson Valley Writers' Center and Late
Spring 2003 Class Schedule CLASSES
& WORKSHOPS
Creating Art Amidst Human Tragedy with Karen Finley Writing For Children with Jean Fritz Memoir Writing with Joan Potter Fiction Writing with David Surface
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ATTENTION,
ADVANCED POETS!
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CREATING
ART AMIDST HUMAN TRAGEDY Life's challenges and passages often immobilize writers. This workshop, focused on writing, will help you transform difficult experiences into art.
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WRITING
FOR CHILDREN Writing a book for children—or planning to? Don’t miss this chance to discuss your project with one of our country’s most honored writers of books for children. Come with some knowledge of what kind of children’s books you like and what good writers in this field are doing today. The sessions will be informal and tailored to the needs of the group.
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MEMOIR
WRITING Write stories taken from your own memories and experiences and free your voice as you shape the stories you want to tell in a relaxed, supportive environment. Subjects may range from early childhood memories to the transforming events of adulthood. Participants will read aloud and discuss their work each week.
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FICTION
WRITING Designed for writers at all levels, this course introduces you to various narrative strategies that help break through inhibitions and release a powerful, personal voice onto the page. You will look at how other writers have unlocked their imaginations and then try these techniques in writing exercises and peer-group critiques that sympathetically develop the skills needed to create more imaginative and emotionally rich work.
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| For further information on any of our class offerings, call the HVWC at (914) 332-5953 or email us at info@writerscenter.org. |
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Notes: HVWC = The Hudson Valley Writers' Center, 300 Riverside Drive, Sleepy Hollow, NY. Classes and worshops are held in the restored Philipse Manor railroad station. For travel directions, visit our Directions page or see train schedules at Metro-North's Hudson River Line. For further information about any of these classes or workshops, call the Writers' Center at 914-332-5953. |
Karen
Finley’s raw and personal performances, written and recorded work, installations,
and visual art have long provoked controversy and debate. She has an
MFA from San Francisco Art Institute, has won numerous grants, fellowships,
and awards (including MS. Woman of the Year in '98 and an Obie and Coaguala
Artist of the Decade in '99), and is currently an instructor at Tisch
School of the Arts, Art and Public Policy. Ms. Finley will share her
art with the Writers' Center audience on 
Jean
Fritz of Dobbs Ferry is the author of over two dozen books for young people
and is particularly known for her historical biographies, which the School
Library Journal says have “blown like a fresh breeze across the children’s
book world...(she) has changed the face of the map.” She has also written
an autobiography, Homesick, about her childhood years in China,
which was a 1983 Newbery Medal Honor Book and the recipient of an American
Book Award and many other awards. She has just completed a book on the
Lost Colony of Roanoke.
Joan
Potter is the co-author of The Book of Adirondack Firsts and the
children's book, African Americans Who Were First. She is the author
of African-American Firsts: Famous, Little-Known and Unsung Triumphs
of Blacks in America, a revised, expanded edition of which was published
in November 2002. She edited Growing Up Strong: Four North Country
Women Recall Their Lives, a collection of memoirs produced in a writing
workshop she led in the Adirondacks. Her essays appear in the recently
released anthologies, Living North Country and Rooted in Rock.
David Surface's fiction has been published in numerous literary journals,
including DoubleTake, North American Review, Crazyhorse, Fiction, Willow
Spring, and Artful Dodge. Excerpts from his novel, A Good
Life, have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His essays on the
craft and teaching of writing have been featured in the National Writers
Union Newsletter and Teachers & Writers Guide to William Carlos
Williams. He has taught as a writer-in-the-schools for the Lincoln
Center Department of Education and as a Visiting Writer at the College
of Wooster.