Region VI Writers Workshop

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Hone your journalistic and literary "voice" Woodinville, WA October 31, 2011 Members & Spouses: early $99/person Non-Members: early $125/person    Registration Deadline October 24, 2011 Contact: Debra Prinzing,  206.769.8211

Program Agenda

October 30
11:30a-5:00p Regional Meeting (additional fee)
Join members on a tour of 21 Acres Center for Local Food and Sustainable Living and Willows Lodge. For a full schedule and registration information, click here.

October 31 Writing Workshop: Hone your journalistic and literary “voice”
8:30a-4:30p Willows Lodge

Two local instructors will help you jump-start writing projects that may be languishing and discover the potential for diversifying your topics and genre.

Fee includes AM coffee, light refreshments and a Willows Deli buffet lunch.

Morning instructor: Sharon Hazzard, MFA
"Memory is Change: Understand the basics of memoir and the science of memory and how you can use them as a writer to enhance your personal storytelling."

About Sharon: Based in Seattle, Sharon Hazzard received her Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Bennington College, where she was the recipient of the Lucy Grealy Scholarship and the Brass Balls Award. Her work has appeared in The Bennington Review and Seattle Woman. She has also written extensively as an attorney and executive director of a non-profit.
Sharon just completed the first draft of her first book, Love and One Bad Thing. Of her work, American essayist Phillip Lopate has said, "I trusted the voice throughout, and was struck again and again with the economy and precision of the language - an entirely un-showoff wit, I might add. There is also such tenderness and scrupulosity in her handling of all this personal material that this could be a model for other writers of family memoirs."

Afternoon instructor: Giselle Smith
“Feature This: Up your game with top feature-writing techniques for travel, lifestyle and design topics.”

About Giselle: Seattle-based freelance editor, writer and writing instructor, Giselle Smith has an extensive background in developing lifestyle-oriented magazine content, including home, garden, food, travel and art editorial. She has served as editor-in-chief for both Seattle Homes & Lifestyles magazine and Seattle magazine and was managing editor for Alaska Airlines Magazine. For several years, Giselle was an instructor in the University of Washington's continuing education nonfiction writing certificate program, and more recently the editing certificate program, where she developed and taught short-form nonfiction editing.