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2-Day Writing Workshop
"Techniques of Fiction"
Dates: Feb. 23 - 24, 2009
Instructor: C.M. Mayo
Location: San Miguel de Allende
The goal is that by the end of this workshop
your writing will be of notably higher quality!
Uniquely geared toward both beginning and advanced writers, C.M. Mayo’s
two-day creative writing workshop emphasizes techniques for tapping
into creativity and specific aspects of craft. As at the Bethesda,
Maryland Writers Center where Mayo has taught highly popular workshops
since 1999, Mayo does not critique manuscripts but rather offers a
series of mini-lectures
interspersed with exercises, readings and discussion.
Techniques of Fiction Writing Workshop focuses on generating new material with exercises addressing:
- specificity
- point of view
- synesthesia
- imagery
- image patterning
- plot
- rhythm
- the use and misuse of dialogue
About your instructor: C.M. Mayo is the author of the forthcoming novel The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire, as well as the widely-lauded travel memoir, Miraculous Air:
Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico, and Sky Over El Nido, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Founding editor of Tameme,
the bilingual Spanish/English chapbook press, Mayo is also a translator
of contemporary Mexican poetry and fiction. Her anothology of Mexican
fiction in translation, Mexico: A Traveler's
Literary Companion,
was published by Whereabouts Press in March 2006. Mayo's stories,
essays and poems have appeared in numerous U.S. literary magazines
including Chelsea, Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, Kenyon
Review, The North American Review, The North American Review, The Paris
Review, Southwest Review, Tin House and Witness as well as the Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street Journal. For more information, please visit C.M. Mayo's website: www.cmmayo.com 
Cost:
Workshop Only: $125 US (EARLY BIRD SPECIAL- Register by Jan. 15., 2009)
After Jan. 15, 2009: $150 US
STUDENTS
SIGNING UP FOR THIS COURSE RECEIVE A $25 US DISCOUNT OFF THE TICKET
PURCHASE FOR THE 4th ANNUAL SAN MIGUEL WRITERS' CONFERENCE &
LITERARY FESTIVAL.
For information regarding accommodations at varying price ranges, please email jody@sanmiguelworkshops.com.
When & Where
San Miguel de Allende
Mexico
Monday, February 23, 2009 at 10:00 AM - Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 1:30 PM (CT)
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San Miguel Workshops
Various writing workshops in the alluring city of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico with distinguished instructors are scheduled several times throughout
the year with options that include deluxe accommodations in private
haciendas or beautiful B&B’s, luxurious spa treatments, yoga
classes, hikes in the botanical gardens, salsa dancing...a plethora of
sensory delights to inspire the writer witin.
