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Tuesday, September 23, 2008 from 8:30 AM - 2:00 AM (ET)
Cleveland, OH
A participatory, interactive workshop on long form narrative journalism will be held September 23 at The Plain Dealer, 1801 Superior Avenue. Wendy Call, editor of Telling True Stories, A Nonfication Writer's Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University will be instructing this four-hour workshop.
The seminar will provide practical advice for experienced journalists and authors about how to create compelling characters; develop a clear story structure; effectively express action and dialogue; and edit one's own work.
Wendy Call is a freelance writer, editor and teacher of creative writing. She is currently Writer in Residence at Seattle's Richard Hugo House, the country's third-largest literary center. Beginning in September 2008, she will be Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Pacific Lutheran University near Tacoma, Washington, teaching nonfiction writing.
She co-edited Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University (Plume/Penguin, 2007) with Mark Kramer. Telling True Stories is an anthology of writing advice from some of the country's best-known writers of nonfiction, including Nora Ephron, Alma Guillermoprieto, Tracy Kidder, and Gay Talese.
Wendy's narrative nonfiction book-in-progress, No Word for Welcome, explores how economic globalization intersects with village life in a region of southern Mexico called the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Grants from the arts commissions of Seattle, King County, and Washington State, as well as the Oberlin College Alumni Association, have supported the research and writing of the book. Wendy was a 2000-2002 Writing Fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs in the Mexican isthmus -- the setting of No Word for Welcome. She is represented by Wendy Strothman of The Strothman Agency, LLC.
Wendy's writing has appeared in English, Spanish, and French in more than thirty magazines and literary journals, as well as several anthologies. In many publications her photographs accompany her writing. Wendy has worked as a writer and editor since 2000. Before that she devoted a decade to work for social change organizations in Boston and Seattle. She holds a BA in biology from Oberlin College and a MFA in writing and literature from the Bennington College Writing Seminars.
Co-sponsored by the Press Club of Cleveland and The Plain Dealer registration will also include lunch.
28022 Osborn Rd. Cleveland, OH 44140 Office phone: 440.899-1222 Fax: 440.899-1010 E-mail: pressclubcleveland@oh.rr.com Contact: Lynn Bracic
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