Mendocino Coast Writers Conference 2010 Schedule

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As faculty for the 2012 Conference are confirmed, titles of their classes will be listed below for you to review their descriptions.

From February 2012 you will also be able to download a conference brochure and schedule from this page.

Click on a class title to see a description of that class.

Thursday, Friday & Saturday Workshops (Choose One):

Robin Hemley: Memoir — Master Class
Victoria Zackheim: Creative Nonfiction — The Personal Essay
David Corbett: Novel — Character is the Engine of Story
Kim Addonizio: Poetry — Reaching the Heart of the Reader
Steve Almond: Short Story — How to Make Your Short Story Sing
Elizabeth Rosner: Emerging Writers — Finding and Deepening Your Material

Afternoon Lecture & Discussion Sessions

Kim Addonizio: Inviting Surprise in Poetry
Steve Almond: Funny is the New Deep
David Corbett: The Mercurial Ego, or The How of Want
Robin Hemley: The Writer in the World: An Introduction to Immersion Writing
Elizabeth Rosner: Words Can Change the World
Claudia Sternbach: What Do We Look For at Memoir (and) Literary Journal?
Victoria Zackheim: You've Written the Essay — Now What?
Gordon Warnock & Jack Shoemaker: The Changing World of Publishing
Stacey Jay, Ginny Rorby and Jody Gehrman:The Secret Ingredients of Successful Teen Fiction

Panel Sessions

Prudence Breitrose: Paths to Publishing
Don & Shirley Kirkpatrick: Paths to Publishing

January 2012