[Cwgrad-announcements] FW: San Juan Workshops

Fri Apr 7 13:19:23 PDT 2006

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From: Maurya Simon [mailto:maurya.simon at ucr.edu] 
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 1:16 PM
To: Amanda Labagnara
Subject: Fwd: San Juan Workshops

Hi Amanda,

Please forward this announcement to everyone.  Thanks so much, Maurya

Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 11:12:12 -0500
Subject: San Juan Workshops
From: jill patterson <jill.patterson at ttu.edu>
To: "P&W.39" <jill.patterson at ttu.edu>

Please share the information below with your students and writing
colleagues.  If you have additional information, feel free to email us and
we'll answer your questions.  If you wish to be removed from our database,
please respond with unsubscribe in the subject line.  Thank you--

Sincerely,

Jill Patterson
Director

The San Juan Workshops 

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.
-Henry David Thoreau 

2006 Faculty:

Memoir: Philip Gerard, Lee Martin, Lee Gutkind
Fiction: Ron Carlson, Dani Shapiro, Pam Houston
Poetry: Mark Jarman, Stanley Plumly, Gary Short
Children's Literature:  Donna Kooner Gines 

The goal of the San Juan Workshops is to remove writers from the hectic pace
of everyday life and give them the inspiration, space, and quiet to attend
to their writing.

The Workshops are held for one week, each summer, in Ouray, Colorado-the
Switzerland of America.  In this cozy mountain village, everything is within
walking-distance, including the Ouray Hot Springs Pool, Cascade Falls, the
local movie theater in the historical Wright Opera House, several fine
restaurants, lodging, and The Community Center where workshop events take
place.

We work hard in the daytime and participate in social activities in the
evening-picnicking in the mountains, soaking in the hot springs, listening
to blue grass music in the city park, and playing bingo at the Elks lodge.
Annual social events include the San Juan Workshop Bar Crawl, Jeep Mountain
Cookout, Silverton Dinner Trip, and Champagne Brunch.  Free social events
include First Saturday picnic, Monday's brunch on publishing in literary
journals, and three faculty readings with receptions immediately following.

Session One: Generating New Material (July 22-23) 

If you're suffering from writer's block or if you've recently finished one
project and can't quite start another, Session One will fire you up again.
Tuition will cover 8 hours of workshop time with instructors, and the
schedule allows for an additional 7 hours of independent writing
time-precious hours if you have difficulty making time for your writing
during your normal daily routine. When you leave this workshop, you'll have
completed several poems, or a scene or two, or even an entire prose piece.
And you'll have a notebook of ideas to work on when you get home.  We'll
even supply the notebook!

Faculty: Philip Gerard (memoir), Ron Carlson (fiction), Mark Jarman (poetry)

Session Two: Craft and Critique (July 24-27) 

If you'd like a renowned writer to read and critique your manuscript (up to
14 pages of prose; up to 3-4 poems), Session Two will provide the help
you're looking for.  During this workshop, faculty will workshop the
participants' manuscripts. Additionally, faculty will discuss the techniques
of great contemporary writers and how these techniques can be incorporated
into the participants' original works.  Tuition covers 15 hours of workshop
time with instructions and over 12 hours of independent writing time.  

SPECIAL NOTE:  You will be required to send a manuscript to be workshopped
by July 5. If we do not have the manuscript by that date, we cannot
guarantee that the faculty member will agree to critique it.

Faculty:  Lee Martin (nonfiction), Dani Shapiro (fiction), Stanley Plumly
(poetry), Donna Cooner Gines (Children's Literature).

Session Three:  Revising and Submitting for Publication (July 28-29) 

If you can write first drafts but  have difficulty polishing them and
sending them off for publication, Session Three will offer you specific
exercises to help you with the revision process.  Whether you need to
heighten your narrative perspective, tinker with metaphor and symbol,
rewrite the opening, or find better closure, faculty will give you the tools
you need to revision your work.  Tuition will cover 8 hours of workshop time
with faculty, and the schedule will provide over 6 hours of independent
writing time.  Please bring a manuscript to revise while attending this
workshop.

Faculty:  Lee Gutkind (nonfiction), Pam Houston (fiction), Gary Short
(poetry)

Tuition 

All tuition can be paid online, using a credit card, at
<http://www.homepage.mac.com/inkwellliterary>
http://www.homepage.mac.com/inkwellliterary. 

Application Fee:  $30, nonrefundable, all sessions single and multiple
The application fee will cover administrative costs for reviewing applicant
materials, photocopying, postage for materials mailed to Predator Press
judges for fellowships applications.

Deposit: 
A nonrefundable deposit is required in order to secure a space in any
session.  If a participant fails to pay the deposit, his or her slot will be
reopened.  The deposit it due two weeks after you are accepted into the
workshops. Participants may pay their deposit online, using Paypal.  Or
participants my send their deposit via regular mail to P.O. Box 841,
Ridgway, CO 81432.  Checks should be made payable to Inkwell Literary
Services.

Balance of Tuition:

Balance of tuition for all sessions is due by July 12th. Failure to pay the
balance of tuition will result in a $50 late fee that is due the day the
workshop begins with the balance of tuition.  Again, participants may pay
the balance of their tuition on-line via Paypal or send a check through the
mail.

  Session                               Deposit         Balance
Total Tuition    
  Session One or Three          $200              $150                $350

  Session Two                          $250               $225
$475    
  Session One AND Three      $400               $200                $600
(save $100)    
  Session One AND Two          $400             $300                $700
(save $125)    
  Session Two AND Three      $400               $300                $700
(save $125)    
  All Three Sessions            $400                $600
$1,000 (save $175)   

Late Fee:
A late fee, $50, will apply and be added to tuition costs when a participant
fails to pay the balance of his or her tuition by July 12th.

Fellowships 

Predator Press and Weehawken Creative Arts will provide fellowship money for
18 participants.  Fellowships will be determined by judges of Predator Press
chapbook competitions.  Fellowships for single sessions are $100; for two
sessions, $150; for all three sessions, $200. All applicants are
automatically considered for fellowship assistance.

There is also a 15% discount for locals-writers living in Ouray or Ridgway,
Colorado.

Meal Tickets/Breakfast

Before they purchase a meal ticket, lots of participants want to know if
faculty members will be eating the breakfast served at the Community Center.
Most of them do, but we can't guarantee that they will.  You will be served
a hot breakfast, all of them with protein and fruit plus other warm items.
It will be difficult to find a restaurant in Ouray where you can eat this
type of breakfast for less than $8, but certainly if you're not a morning
person or you like nothing more than a scone and coffee, there are bakeries
in town where you can probably eat cheaper than $8.

How to Apply

Applying Online:
You can pay for the application fee ($30) at our website (
<http://www.homepage.mac.com/inkwellliterary)>
http://www.homepage.mac.com/inkwellliterary), using Paypal.  Then send your
sample manuscript (14 pages of prose or 3-4 poems) to our email address:
inkwellliterary at mac.com.  Please make sure your manuscript is either in pdf
or MS Word format. Also send your name, phone number, mailing address, and
your session and faculty preferences with your mss.

Applying via Regular Mail:
Send a check for the application fee ($30), your sample manuscript (14 pages
of prose or 3-4 poems), as well as your name, phone number, mailing address,
and your session and faculty preferences to Inkwell Literary Services, P.O.
Box 841, Ridgway, CO 81432.  Your check should be payable to Inkwell
Literary Services.

For Additional Information about Lodging, Transportation, Etc.,
please contact us at inkwellliterary at mac.com. 

The San Juan Workshops take place in partnership with the Weehawken Creative
Arts. 

Maurya Simon

Professor 
Department of Creative Writing
University of California Riverside
900 University Avenue
Riverside, CA 92521-0318

TEL. (951) 827-2006 (office)

FAX: (951) 827-3619 

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