Lyall Bush
Lyall Bush, current executive director of Northwest Film Forum, is the former executive director of Richard Hugo House, Seattle's home for readers and writers. In addition to writing for many a decade about film and filmmakers, he has published personal essays and reviews and has just completed his first collection of short fiction, Take the F Train and Other Stories.Launch: Drafting the Personal Essay
January 25-28, 2010
Charles R. Cross
Charles R. Cross is the author of seven books including Led Zeppelin: Shadows Taller Than Our Souls due out this fall from Harper Collins. Heavier Than Heaven, his biography of Kurt Cobain, won the ASCAP Award for Outstanding Biography in 2002, and is presently being made into a theatrical film. Cross was Editor of The Rocket, the Seattle music magazine, from 1986 through 2000. Cross’ writing has appeared in numerous magazines including Rolling Stone, Esquire, Playboy, Spin, Spy, and many newspapers including the London Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Seattle Times, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He lectures and teaches at a number of colleges on both journalism and pop culture. He lives with his family near Seattle.Searching for the Golden Voice in Music and Words
January 11-14, 2010
Candace Dempsey
CANDACE DEMPSEY is an award-winning journalist and author of the upcoming Murder in Italy (Berkley Books, Penguin Group USA), a true crime book about the sensational Meredith Kercher/Amanda Knox case. Her blog, Italian Woman at the Table, is hosted by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Candace holds a master's degree in journalism from the University of Oregon School of Journalism, where she was a Graduate Teaching Fellow. She’s written for the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Phoenix and many other newspapers and magazines. Her adventure tales appear in Travelers' Tales A Woman's Passion for Travel and other anthologies. She is the former editor/producer of MSN Underwire, a women's Web site that Newsweek called "cheeky, nicely written, fun." She is represented by the Andrew Stuart Agency in New York. Blog: Italian Woman at the Table
Official Website with clips
Turn Your Blog into a Book
April 19-22, 2010
Richard Goodman
Richard Goodman is the author of The Soul of Creative Writing and French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France. He has written on a variety of subjects for many national publications, including the New York Times, Harvard Review, Creative Nonfiction, the AWP Writer’s Chronicle, Commonweal, Vanity Fair, Saveur, Ascent, French Review and The Michigan Quarterly Review. He wrote the introduction for Travelers' Tales Provence and is featured in Best Travel Writing 2008 from Travelers’ Tales. He created, wrote and narrated a six-part series about New York City for Public Radio in Virginia. He teaches creative nonfiction at Spalding University's Brief Residency MFA in Writing program in Louisville, Kentucky. For more information, and an extensive sampling of Richard Goodman's writing, please go to his homepage. http://www.richardgoodman.org/
Going Places: Travel Writing
February 8-11, 2010
Laurance Klavan
Laurence Klavan is co-author with Susan Kim of the graphic novels, "City of Spies" and "The Fielding Course," to be published in 2010 by First Second Books at Macmillan. His novels, "The Cutting Room" and "The Shooting Script," were published over the past few years by Ballantine Books. He won an Edgar for the novel, "Mrs. White, " written under a pseudonym. His work has been published or is forthcoming in such print and online journals as The Alaska Quarterly, The Literary Review, Conjunctions, Natural Bridge, Louisville Review, Gargoyle, and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. He received two Drama Desk nominations for the book and lyrics to "Bed and Sofa," the musical produced by the Vineyard Theater in New York. His one-act, "The Summer Sublet," is included in Best American Short Plays 2000-2001. His website is LaurenceKlavan.com.Writing the Graphic Novel Script
March 1-4, 2010
Ross Klavan
Ross Klavan has recently finished the screenplay for “The Colony” basedon the book by John Bowers. His critically acclaimed originalscreenplay for the film “Tigerland” was nominated for the IndependentSpirit Award. The film, based on Ross’s novel of the same name, wasdirected by Joel Schumacher and released by 20th Century Fox in 2000,starring Colin Farrell. He’s also written the screenplay “Baghdad Blog”for InterMedia, “War Party” for Walden Media, “Abyssinia” for directorRoger Donaldson and he adapted Tom Clancy’s “Without Remorse” forParamount. For television, he’s written “Deathwork” to be directed byRobert Greenwald for TNT. Ross has also scripted “Within Range,” forMiramax. A public and intense “conversation about writing” with KurtVonnegut and Lee Stringer was both televised and published in 1999 as“Like Shaking Hands With God” (Seven Stories Press.) As a performer,his voice has been heard in dozens of feature films including“Revolutionary Road,”“Sometimes in April,” “Casino,” “In and Out,” and“You Can Count On Me” as well as in numerous TV and radio commercials.He was a member of the Four Walls alternative art space inWilliamsburg, Brooklyn and teaches screenwriting in the MA and MFAprograms at Wilkes University. Ross lives in NYC with the painter MaryJones.Framework
March 15-18, 2010
Jonathan Kravetz
Instructor Jonathan Kravetz is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of DUCTS.org, a biannual literary webzine devoted to publishing engaging personal essays, memoirs, art, fiction, humor and more. His play, Prayer, was produced to sold-out houses at the New York City Fringe Festival, 2008. Violins, a ten-minute play, was one of the winners of the Bite-Sized International Playwriting Competition and was performed at the Brighton Fringe Festival in spring, 2008. Prayer was a semi-finalist in the annual Reverie Productions Play competition in New York, 2008. Jim and Dana, another ten-minute play, finished in the top ten of the 2009 Oxford, MS Ten Minute Play Contest. Mr. Kravetz is one of the founding members of the prestigious Writers Forum at the Manhattan Theatre Source in New York. He is also the founder of the monthly reading series, Trumpet Fiction, which is held the second Saturday of every month at KGB Bar in the East Village. Jonathan holds a Masters in Cinema Studies from New York University.Dramatic Writing
February 22-25, 2010
Charles Salzberg
Charles Salzberg is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Esquire, New York Magazine, GQ, Elle, Redbook, Ladies Home Journal, Good Housekeeping, The New York Times Arts and Leisure, The New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Times Book Review and various other publications. He is the author of From Set Shot to Slam Dunk, An Oral History of the NBA, and On A Clear Day They Could See Seventh Place, Baseball's 10 Worst Teams of the Century (with George Robinson) and co-author of My Zany Life and Times, by Soupy Sales, Missy Hyatt, The First Lady of Wrestling (with Mark Goldblatt,) and the forthcoming Catch Them Being Good by Tony DiCicco and Colleen Hacker, PhD.He is currently a visiting professor of magazine journalism at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and teaches advanced non-fiction at Sarah Lawrence College. He was cited by New York Magazine as one of New York's Great Teachers.
Check out Charles's latest books, The Mad Fisherman and Swann's Last Song, and visit his website.
http://charlessalzberg.com
Contemporary Magazine Journalism
February 1-4, 2010
Becky Selengut
When not cavorting around the woods picking edible things, Becky Selengut can be found teaching cooking and writing articles for Seattle Homes and Lifestyles Magazine and Edible Seattle, as well as for the blog Chef Reinvented. A trained chef and the co-author of the Washington Local and Seasonal Cookbook, Selengut is hard at work on a new cookbook on sustainable seafood.The Art and Soul of Food Writing
April 5-8, 2010
Giselle Smith
A lifelong Seattle resident, Giselle Smith is a writer and editor whose travel articles have appeared in inflight magazines for Northwest Airlines, Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air, Carnival Currents (Carnival Cruises), Destinations (Trendwest Resorts) and Puget Sound Journey (AAA). She is a former editor of Best Places: Seattle and Best Places: Northwest (Sasquatch Books) and has edited Insight Guides to Seattle, the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Through the University of Washington's continuing education program, Giselle has taught certificate courses in nonfiction writing and editing. She is a former editor of Alaska Airlines Magazine and Seattle Magazine and currently edits Seattle Homes & Lifestyles, a regional bimonthly home design magazine.Intro to Travel Writing: Must Love Travel AND Words
March 8-11 2010
Tim Tomlinson
Tim Tomlinson's fiction has appeared in many venues, including The Missouri Review, The Gettysburg Review, Libido, Hampton Shorts, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, and The North American Review. Recent stories can be found online at Pif and Del Sol Review. He has published haiku in Black Bough, Modern Haiku, Parnassus Literary Journal, Potpourri, and Time Haiku. His articles on travel, scuba diving, and the arts have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Post, The New York Daily News, Musician, Downtown Express and Spa Magazine.He has taught fiction and screenwriting workshops in the Philippines and Thailand. He consults with television and screenwriters for the Media Development Authority in Singapore. He is fiction editor of the webzine ducts.org. At NYU he teaches courses on writing and contemporary culture.
Method and Madness – A Fiction Workshop
March 29-April 1, 2010
Lauren Weedman
Lauren Weedman is a native Hoosier who is currently based in Los Angeles. Her book of comedic Essays “A Woman Trapped in A Woman’s Body” was named “The Top Ten Indie Books of 2007” by Kirkus Review. Her short story “Diary of a Journal Reader” was included in the 2007 anthology “The Best of Non-Required Reading” edited by Dave Eggars. For the past 15 years she’s been been writing and performing autobiographical based solo theater pieces that have toured around America. After a national tour her first solo show based on her adoption and her mother’s search for her birth-mother-“Homecoming” went off-Broadway in and was included in a Smith and Krauss’s "Best Women Playwrights” series. All of her award winning solo shows “Amsterdam”, “RASH”, “Wreckage”, “If Ornaments and Lips” and “Bust” have toured and been produced in theaters across America.
She was a correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and regular on the political satire show “Rewind”. She is currently writing a new book of essays –“Wigs on a Baby” and a pilot based on her book “A Woman Trapped in a Woman’s body” for Fox.
Lauren is a recipient of a 2007 Alpert Award/Macdowell Fellowship.
For more info www.laurenweedman.net
From Fact into Fiction
April 12-15, 2010
Creative Director
Justin Henderson
Justin Henderson is the founder and Creative Director of the Sayulita Writers Workshops. Henderson is the author of three published murder mysteries--Murder on Naked Beach, Mexican Booty, and X-Dames, as well as over ten books on architecture and interior design. He also co-authored or edited travel guides to Costa Rica, the Caribbean, and Los Angeles for Fodor's and for the British Automobile Association. Henderson moved from Seattle to Sayulita in 2009, and lives in a little house two blocks from the beach with his wife, photographer Donna Day, his daugher Jade, and Paco the Poodle.Words and Pictures
January 18-21, 2010
Making Fiction out of Facts
February 15-18, 2010