Winter 2002

All classes are held at the Hudson Valley Writers' Center and
are limited to 10 students unless otherwise indicated.

Spring 2002 Class Schedule
Summer 2002 Class Schedule

Mapping Submission Strategies with Amy Holman
Pitching Your Book with Amy Holman
"Play" in a Day: a Workshop for 11 - 13 year olds
with Frank Ingrasciotta
Tapping Creativity: Dreams, Mandalas, and Shaping Images into Writing with Susan Tiberghien
Telling the Story: a workshop with Laura Simms

This two-part class is for poets and fiction writers who are ready to submit work to magazines, presses, and agents. Learn research methods that target the market for your work and how to organize a notebook to be your own personal guide to publishing. Those who bring work to the table will also get a head start on where to send their work. We will assess the style interests of editors at several magazines and book publishers, as well.

Amy Holman is a poet and prose writer, and the founder of The Publishing Seminars at Poets & Writers, Inc., where she currently directs the Literary Horizons program. Her poetry collection, Vanishing Twin, is due in 2002. She is the associate editor of Get Your First Book Published and has written essays on publishing issues for Poets & Writers Magazine, A View From the Loft, SideRoad and Poet's Market. She teaches writers how to publish at conferences, bookstores, and literary centers around the country, as well as through e-mail and on audiotape. Her poetry and prose have been published in many print and on-line journals and anthologies, including Poet Lore, Exquisite Corpse, CrossConnect, Literal Latte, The History of Panty Hose in America, and The Best American Poetry 1999.

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This class is for poets and fiction writers who have a completed collection of poems or short stories or a novel and want to learn how to write a pitch letter to prospective publishers or agents. Learn how to summarize your book in one paragraph and compose a one-page query letter that includes it. The class also addresses book promotion, and you will be asked to imagine you have a book forthcoming in order to help market and pitch it to a broad audience. Some suggestions may be made by the instructor as to possible publishers for your work. There will be homework.

Amy Holman is a poet and prose writer, and the founder of The Publishing Seminars at Poets & Writers, Inc., where she currently directs the Literary Horizons program. Her poetry collection, Vanishing Twin, is due in 2002. She is the associate editor of Get Your First Book Published and has written essays on publishing issues for Poets & Writers Magazine, A View From the Loft, SideRoad and Poet's Market. She teaches writers how to publish at conferences, bookstores, and literary centers around the country, as well as through e-mail and on audiotape. Her poetry and prose have been published in many print and on-line journals and anthologies, including Poet Lore, Exquisite Corpse, CrossConnect, Literal Latte, The History of Panty Hose in America, and The Best American Poetry 1999.

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Jumpstart your imagination, have fun through theater games, and enhance your writing skills in this dynamic workshop taught by a NYC writer and theater professional. Learn how to use personification, character, and dialogue to expand your senses and develop a piece that works as theater or even just on the page.

Frank Ingrasciotta is not only an educator but a playwright, actor, and stage director. He has led workshops in a wide variety of settings for both adults and children of all ages, and his writing exercises have been published by Teachers & Writers Collaborative. He has also directed and consulted for many high school theater productions. As an actor, he has appeared in numerous off and off-off Broadway productions and on TV, including in recurring roles on The Guiding Light, One Life to Live and The Equalizer. He has written and directed many musicals, concerts, and corporate theater productions, and his recent one-man play, Blood Type: RAGU, which he wrote and performed, just ended a record-breaking run in NYC.

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