UPCOMING WORKSHOPS
July 12-18, 2008
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The Antioch Writers’ Workshop welcomes all serious writers,
beginning and experienced. “Your Journey Begins” is
especially for beginning writers, and the morning lectures on fiction,
nonfiction, and poetry will give writers at all levels information
that will help them improve their craft.
Participants must enroll for the entire week. This continuity helps to create a community atmosphere during the workshop. Our evening programs are free and open to the public and are a good way for you to check out the workshop if you’re thinking of coming in the future.
If you are considering one of the five seminars that require a manuscript
submission (i.e., all but “Your Journey Begins”), you
should have some completed, or nearly completed, unpublished work
that you would like to submit and “workshop” in one
of these small-group sessions. Whether it’s a chapter of your
novel, a short story, a collection of poems, an essay, or an excerpt
of a memoir, the manuscript will likely be work that you have written
and rewritten and are now ready for feedback on from others.
Most people submit the beginning of a manuscript. If you are submitting a later portion, you may want to include as part of your 20 pages a brief paragraph “setting up” the excerpt you are workshopping.
If you would like to get feedback on a different piece of work than
the one you are workshopping in a seminar, or if you would like
feedback from another writer on our faculty, then a one-on-one manuscript
critique offers such an opportunity.
Most agents do require that you have a completed manuscript. Agent meetings are a great opportunity to practice pitching your work. Do your background research on the agent, their agency, and practice your pitch in advance. |
