2013 Iowa Summer Writing Festival Schedule June 9-14 One-Week Workshops Mary Allen Spiritual Writing: Capturing the Power of Now Timothy Bascom Larger Than Life: Memoirs That Shed Light on More Than the Self Kyle Beachy Novel Workshop: Building Scenes Cecile Goding Brevity-Power: Writing & Publishing Short-Short Essays Richard Jackson I Guess You Had to Be There: How to Get the Reader to Feel What You Felt Writing Your Poem Wayne Johnson Novel Solutions BK Loren Advanced Craft Workshop for Creative Nonfiction Juliet Patterson Density, Details, Lists: Exercises in Poetry Anjali Sachdeva Science Fiction and Fantasy Workshop Sarah Saffian Rapid-Fire Memoir: A Personal Piece a Day Lisa Schlesinger Push Comes to Shove: Build Your Play This Week Sandra Scofield The Vertical Story: Creating Depth in Fiction & Memoir Karen Subach The I’s Have It: Exploring the First Person (a Cross-Genre Workshop) Mary Vermillion Writing Your First Novel June 15-16 Weekend Workshops Timothy Bascom An Enormous Eye: Writing the Contemplative Essay Kyle Beachy Even Shorter Short Fiction Kelly Dwyer Novel Ideas Hugh Ferrer Clock and Camera: Immersing the Reader Douglas Goetsch Memory & Imagination: A Workshop for All Genres Eric Goodman Writing & Publishing the Short Narrative Essay Sands Hall Creating Effective Characters Christine Hemp Recycling: How to Take Old, Tired Material and Make It New Jim Heynen The Loaded Conversation: Writing Effective Dialogue BK Loren Two Days, One Story Michael Morse Sing and Praise and Bitch and Moan: Psalms, Ancient and Modern Marc Nieson Openings Juliet Patterson Riding the Horse Backwards: Poetry Revision as a Creative State Anjali Sachdeva The Daily Workout—Exercises for Fiction & Nonfiction Sarah Saffian So What’s Your (Life) Story? Memoir in a Nutshell Leslie Schwartz Dare to Be Wild: Painting Pictures with Words Bart Yates Wilderness Survival Techniques: A Crash Course in Fiction Writing June 16-21 One-Week Workshops Kate Aspengren Playwrights Workshop Karen Bender Re-Visioning Your Short Story Douglas Goetsch Free-Writing Intensive: A Workshop for All Genres Eric Goodman The Final Draft: Advanced Novel Sands Hall Novel: The Next Draft Christine Hemp Writing to Be Heard: Nonfiction for the Audience with a Short Attention Span Jim Heynen Short-Short Forms in Fiction & Nonfiction Wayne Johnson All-Purpose, Hard-Drivin’ Fiction Toolbox: A Generative Workshop for Writers Michael Morse Taking Shape: Generating Poems from Template and Tempest Marc Nieson Memoir: On Self & Society Kathryn Rhett Survival Stories: Nonfiction on Crisis Leslie Schwartz The Nuts & Bolts Method of Writing Your Novel Sandra Scofield The Narrative Blueprint: Creating a Storyboard Guide to the Development of Full-Length Stories Karen Subach The Vibe Will Be Functional: An Advanced Workshop for Narrative and Formal Poets

June 22-23 Weekend Workshops Mary Allen Writing Yoga Thomas Fox Averill All Depends on Point of View Karen Bender From Fact to Fiction Linda Bendorf Jumpstart Your Creative Genius: Reclaiming the Writer Within Venise Berry Writing a Nonfiction Book Proposal Hugh Ferrer Who’s That Knocking? Plot Fundamentals Cecile Goding Home & Away: Places in Memoir Douglas Goetsch Description & Emotion: A Workshop for All Genres Jeremy Jackson Food Writing Wayne Johnson Telling the Tale: A Nonfiction Workshop Michael Morse What We Love about Like: Simile and Metaphor, Image and Idea Kathryn Rhett Travel Writing Lisa Schlesinger Character and Action Leslie Schwartz Character Counts: Invention in the Art of Character Development Sandra Scofield Scene Skills: What Makes a Scene Work Bart Yates Finding Your Own Voice: Writing Like Yourself July 7-12 One-Week Workshops Kate Aspengren First This, Then That: The Art of Adaptation Michael Dennis Browne The Work and Play of the Poem Susan Taylor Chehak Advanced Novel Thomas K. Dean Finding the Story in Your Life: Using Narrative in Memoir Writing Hugh Ferrer Shadows, Hands, Petals: The Unbearable Lightness of Imagery Malinda McCollum Take Five: A Fiction Writing Workshop James McKean Memoir: Pieces for the Whole Gordon Mennenga Beginning the Novel Robert Anthony Siegel Novel Workshop Nicholas Twemlow Cooking the Books: Shaping and Preparing Your Poetry Manuscript Anthony Varallo Short Story: The First Three Pages, or What a Fiction Editor Sees July 13-14 Weekend Workshops Mary Allen Finding Your Stories, Jumpstarting Your Memories Timothy Bascom Ripe Thoughts: Essays from Later in Life Linda Bendorf Keeping a Spiritual Journal Robin Bourjaily Process, Poses & Prose: A Multi-Genre Mind-Body Weekend Arda Collins The Air Up There: What Is Atmosphere in a Poem? Jeremy Jackson Novel: First Chapter Boot Camp Fritz McDonald Shaping the Truth: Fictional Structure for Memoir Writers June Melby How (Not) to Get an Agent Gordon Mennenga Writing Wild: Exercises in Fictional Voice Lisa Schlesinger Dialogue Workshop Robert Anthony Siegel How to Write a Short Story: Beginning, Middle, and End Carol Spindel GPS Book Camp: Nonfiction Anthony Varallo The 500-Word Story: A Writer’s Weekend Mary Vermillion Creating Characters

July 14-19 One-Week Workshops Nancy K. Barry Nothing You Learned in School about Writing Venise Berry Five Days, Fifty Pages—Novel Writing Bootcamp Susan Taylor Chehak How to Build a New Novel from the Ground Up Amber Dermont Planning and Pitching Your Novel Rebecca Johns Advanced Novel Workshop Dora Malech Under the Influence: A Generative Poetry Workshop Beau O’Reilly Scenecraft: The Art of Hearing Voices Mark Jude Poirier A Kick in the Pants: Short Story Exercises Andrew Porter Short Story Workshop Holiday Reinhorn The Second Pass: Experiments with the Art of Revision Carol Spindel The Allure of the Actual: Introduction to Creative Nonfiction Peter Trachtenberg Who Do You Think You Are? Enlarging the Scope of the Memoir Nicholas Twemlow Making It New Again and Again: Radical Revisions of the Poem July 20-21 Weekend Workshops Nancy K. Barry Dramatic Monologues Sarah Busse Writing Better Picture Books for Children: A Conversation across Genres Susan Taylor Chehak The Seven Basic Plots Arda Collins The Best Burger in Town: What Satisfies Us in a Poem? Thomas K. Dean Writing Sentences with Impact Hope Edelman The Elegant Incident: Crafting a Pitch-Perfect Scene Rebecca Johns Psychos, Stalkers, and She-Devils: Using Bad Characters to Create Good Fiction Carolyn Lieberg Writing Prompts Galore Dora Malech “Nor Ever Chaste, Except You Ravish Me”: The Sonnet Jacqueline Briggs Martin Writing Better Picture Books for Children: A Conversation across Genres Gordon Mennenga Writing the Weekend Short Story Andrew Porter Creating Complex Characters Holiday Reinhorn Embracing the Practice—Developing, Designing, Reinventing, & Revitalizing Your Writing Process Mary Kay Shanley A Sticky Wicket—When You Aren’t the Only One in Your Memoir Peter Trachtenberg The Wild Essay Kris Vervaecke Show, Tell, or Merely Breathe: Examining Voice July 21-26 One-Week Workshops Jonathan Blum Short Story Workshop Amber Dermont Structuring Your Novel Kelly Dwyer Plotting the Plot in the Novel Hope Edelman The Family Memoir Charles Holdefer Novel Fundamentals Cheryl Fusco Johnson Transforming Memories into Memoir, Family History, or Children’s Stories Daniel Khalastchi Betting on the Muse: A Poetry Workshop Carolyn Lieberg Raising Stories from the Ground Up: A Beginner’s Guide to Story-Building Beau O’Reilly The Blood and Sweat of a Play, a Playwriting Workshop Mark Jude Poirier Stories for Publication Elizabeth Robinson Shaping a Strong Poetry Manuscript Mary Kay Shanley Writing about the Hard Stuff Jeff Vintar Screenplay Starter

July 27-28 Weekend Workshops Jonathan Blum Short Story Weekend Robin Bourjaily Setting Intention and Creating Character: A Poses & Prose Weekend John Dalton Novel Craft: Essential Knowledge for Developing Your Novel Amber Dermont Preparing Your Application: A Field Guide to M.F.A. Programs in Creative Writing Kelly Dwyer Plotting the Plot in the Novel Weekend Jeremy Jackson Young Adult Workshop Cheryl Fusco Johnson All Sorts of Words Daniel Khalastchi Out of Our Hands: Advanced Poetry Beau O’Reilly The Writer as Performer Mark Jude Poirier Preparing Your Application: A Field Guide to M.F.A. Programs in Creative Writing Elizabeth Robinson What Genre Is behind Door Number 2? Kris Vervaecke Endings Jeff Vintar A Weekend in the Screen Trade