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WORKSHOP SUBMISSIONS Workshops tend to be different everywhere you go. At the Orcas Island Writers Festival, we favor process. We don’t want to change what’s working for you. But we do hope to send you home with better tools. Workshop leaders will use your submitted work to teach craft, but they will also teach from the work of published authors. You’ll learn how to read with a more discerning eye and gain clarity and inspiration about your work. After you register, you’ll send us the material you’d like to work on during your workshop. For the poetry workshop, this will be two or three poems. For the other three-day workshops, you’ll select ten pages you’d like to have examined. These ten pages can be from the beginning of a novel, short story, essay, or memoir. But you can also submit a scene or section from a larger work if this scene or selection can stand alone. (See specifics below.) Be sure to include a short20paragraph explaining your larger project. For the Children’s Book Writing Workshop, send in a complete picture book manuscript without the pictures. Send your submission to riteme4@orcasislandwritersfestival.com. We suggest that you paste your poetry or prose onto an email AND also attach it as a document. Put your name in the subject heading of your email. Also be sure to include your name, email, phone, address, and workshop leader at the beginning of your document. This will be for office use only. We will not make your personal information available to anyone else. Double-space everything and use Times New Roman 12-point typeface. No handwritten submissions will be accepted. All work must be received by August 20, 2008. After you’ve sent us your work, we’ll collect the samples from each group and email them to you. Be sure to read these selections prior to the festival. If you have access to a printer, make a copy before you come. If you don’t have access, let us know and we’ll make a copy for you. Don’t worry if your work is not “finished” before sending it to us. We are not agents or publishers. Take this opportunity to stretch and grow as a writer. You will be among friends in a supportive atmosphere. Join the process toward a deeper understanding of the writing craft. We look forward to seeing you soon. Warmly, Festival Director Barbara Lewis SPECIFICS ABOUT WORKSHOPS Peggy Shumaker: Send 2-3 poems. Peggy will also look at longer fiction or nonfiction pieces. If you’d like to send in something other than a poem for Peggy’s workshop, keep it to ten pages double-spaced. Matthew Goodman: Ten pages double-spaced nonfiction. (By nonfiction we mean anything that’s not fiction: essays, articles , and memoir.) Ellen Lesser: Ten pages double-spaced fiction. This can mean the beginning of a novel or short story, or a complete scene within a novel or short story as long as we can understand it without much explanation. (Don’t expect us to follow an outline or synopsis. Send in only what can be read alone and understood.) Diane Lefer: Ten pages double-spaced memoir or fiction. (Sometimes memoir can be fiction or nonfiction.) For a complete listing of all our teachers and additional classes: http://orcasartsmith.org/orcasislandwritersfestival.html
Program Schedule
Thursday, Sept. 4
Friday, Sept. 5
Saturday, Sept. 6
Sunday, Sept 7
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