COMMUNITY SUMMER WRITING WORKSHOPS OFWRITERS POETRY WORKSHOPS: July i6 - 23, 20ii WRITERS WORKSHOPS: August 6-i3, 20ii SCREENWRITING WORKSHOPS: August 6-i3, 20ii

COMMUNITY OF WRITERS AT SQUAW VALLEY TRAVEL Every summer for 42 years, the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley is located seven miles from Tahoe City and ten Squaw Valley has brought together poets and prose writers miles from Truckee. It is a four-hour drive from the Bay Area, for separate weeks of workshops, individual conferences, and an hour from the Reno/Lake Tahoe International Airport. lectures, panels, readings, and discussions of the craft and It is not necessary to have a car during the week. Upon accep- the business of writing. Our goal is to assist writers to tance, participants will be sent more information about air- improve their craft and thus move them closer to publication. port shuttles, carpooling to the valley, and accommodations.

SQUAW VALLEY, CALIFORNIA Housing & Meals Squaw Valley, located in the California Sierra Nevada, close to Evening meals are included in the tuition, but participants the north shore of Lake Tahoe, is a ski resort, the site of the are on their own for breakfast and lunch. Nearby in the valley 1960 Winter Olympics. Summers are warm and sunny; partici- are cafes and restaurants and a small general store. Houses pants will have opportunities to hike to the local waterfalls, and condominiums in the valley are rented for participant take nature walks up the mountain, swim in Lake Tahoe, housing. Participants share these units and may choose sin- and play tennis, ice skate, or bike along the Truckee River. gle, double, or multiple occupancy rooms at reasonable rates. Participants may, of course, arrange their own accommodations. We will send more information about our housing options, THE WORKSHOPS as well as local hotels, upon acceptance. Meanwhile, visit Weeklong workshops in Poetry, Fiction, Narrative www.squawvalleywriters/org/FAQS.html. Nonfiction, Memoir, and Screenwriting are offered in July and August to poets and writers. The following DATES & DEADLINES pages include information about these programs and the teaching staff as well as application procedures. ADMISSIONS Admissions are based on submitted manuscript. We have no “application form.” Each program‘s specific require- ments for submission and applications are listed on page 12. Please apply early. Submission must be received by the application deadline listed below to be considered. *Financial Aid is available FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE CONTACT INFORMATION A limited amount of financial aid is available from funds donated Brett Hall Jones, Executive Director by generous individuals and institutions. Requests for financial Community of Writers aid should accompany applications. Assistance is in the form of (530) 470-8440 (until June 15) (530) 583-5200 (after June 15) partial Tuition Waivers and Scholarships. [email protected] or [email protected] Forty-two Years “I am extremely grateful for the opportunity to DIRECTORS work together with the staff poets, but more importantly, I think, with my peers whose work executive director and work ethic have been a great source of Brett Hall Jones COMMUNITY inspiration. “ —Mike Liaw SUMMER WORKSHOPS OFWRITERS “The experience was, by far, the best writing workshop I've ever been to -- from the beautiful FICTION surroundings and my great housemates to the craft lectures that inspired me and the workshops Lisa Alvarez that taught me so much more about poetry and Louis B. Jones poetics. The housing, the facilities, the straight- forward manner of how you cared for us -- and NONFICTION all the other details were a perfect foundation Michael Carlisle for me to focus on my own writing and creativ- ity. The workshop renewed my writing life." —Valerie Wallace POETRY Community of Writers at Squaw Valley Robert Hass "Quite simply, it was one of the most inspiring A Brief History and educational times of my writing life. The SCREENWRITING The Community of Writers was established in staff set such a loving, positive tone for the week, Diana Fuller 1969 by novelists Blair Fuller and Oakley Hall, and the entire writing faculty followed suit. There was never a sense of stratification between the who were both residents of the valley. It was faculty and students, only the sense that we are BOARD OF DIRECTORS originally staffed by a band of San Francisco all in this together, and we’re all doing important PRESIDENT writers including David Perlman, Barnaby work. And to me, that was the central message: Max Byrd Conrad, and John Leggett, the latter two of Writing is important, vital work. Difficult work, but absolutely essential to the world, whom went on to found, respectively, the especially in these times, and as writers we VICE PRESIDENT Santa Barbara Writers Conference and the have a responsibility to craft the best prose and Joanne Meschery Napa Writers Conference. The Community most compelling stories that we’re capable of.” of Writers continues to be directed by Brett —Ryan Griffith SECRETARY Hall Jones. Eddy Ancinas “Community of Writers was one of the best Over the years the Community has mount- weeks of my life. I felt like I received an intense FINANCIAL OFFICER MFA in one week. The caliber of writing was ed workshops in Fiction, Nonfiction, superb, and to be able to learn from a brilliant Burnett Miller Screenwriting, Playwriting, Poetry, and staff about the craft of writing, and then dis- Nature Writing (the Art of the Wild Program, cuss it with fellow writers, was invaluable. The DIRECTORS which was co-produced by the University of Community of Writers dissolved the barrier be- Osvaldo Ancinas James Naify tween the unpublished writer and the publish- California at Davis), and Writing the Medical ing world." —Amanda Coggin Jan Buscho Michael Pietsch Experience. Lisa Alvarez and Louis B. Jones Alan Cheuse Christopher Sindt now direct the Writers Workshop, which was Mark Childress Kevin Starr for twenty years directed by Carolyn Doty. “It was a challenging and helpful week. I learned Nancy Cushing Amy Tan Literary agent Michael Carlisle directs the more at Squaw than any other conference I’ve Richard Ford John C. Walker ever attended. Rotating workshop instructors is Nonfiction Program. Galway Kinnell directed a brilliant idea. Every day each new workshop Blair Fuller Lucinda Watson the Poetry Program for 17 years and Robert leader seemed to touch on new strategies, Diana Fuller Harold Weaver Hass has directed it since 2004. Diana Fuller philosophies, and techniques for better writing. Barbara Hall Al Young directs the Screenwriters Workshop, which was And the craft talks were spectacular.” —David Lombardi Edwina Leggett founded by screenwriters Tom Rickman and Gill Dennis. How to Contact Us “My time at the screenwriting program in Squaw You may e-mail Executive Director Valley was a rare opportunity to step away from The Community publishes Omnium Gatherum my harried life and focus on my script with the Brett Hall Jones: & Newsletter, chronicling the publishing and guidance of incredibly talented mentors. I went in [email protected] other successes of its participants. It is avail- with a draft that I knew needed to be rebuilt from or call (530) 470-8440 the ground up, so I was ready for it. My advisor able in a printed booklet as well as online. For She can answer most of your questions about went above and beyond for my script, and the applications, housing, transportation, etc. more information visit: sessions with other mentors were invaluable. www.squawvalleywriters.org/newsletter.html I highly recommend this program to any screenwriter looking for an intensive workshop www.squawvalleywriters.org with a lineup of patient and generous teachers.” -2- —Amanda Micheli Poetry July i6-23 he Poetry Program is founded on the belief that when poets gather in a community to write new poems, each poet may well break through old habits and write something stron- ger and truer than before. To help this happen we work together to create an atmosphere Tin which everyone might feel free to try anything. In the mornings we meet in workshops to read to each other the work of the previous twenty-four hours; each participant also has an opportunity to work with each staff poet. In the late afternoons we gather for a conversation about some aspect of craft. On several afternoons staff poets hold brief individual conferences.

Tuition for the Poetry Program is $800 and includes seven evening meals. (Accomodations are extra.) A limited amount of financial aid is available. See Application Guidelines, page 13.

POETRY STAFF ROBERT HASS is a poet, translator and ed an edition of Emily Dickinson’s poetry NATURE WALKS essayist. His recent books include his for Shambhala Publications; and with selected poems, The Apple Trees at Patricia Dienstfrey, co-edited The Grand DAVID LUKAS is a natural- Olema (Ecco/HarperCollins), Time and Permission: New Writings on Poetics ist and writer whose writings Materials (Ecco/ HarperCollins), which and Motherhood. Hillman is involved in have appeared in Audubon, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the anti-war activism with CodePink and Orion, BC Wildlife, and Wild Bird, National Book Award, and his edition teaches at St. Mary’s College in Moraga, and in the Los Angeles Times. of Walt Whitman's Song of Myself and California where she is the Olivia Filippi He is the author of Watchable Other Poems (Counterpoint). His other Professor of Poetry. Birds of the Great Basin and books of poetry include Sun Under blueflowerarts.com/brenda-hillman Wild Birds of California. He Wood: New Poems, Human Wishes, revised the classic guidebook Praise, and Field Guide. He has also co- CATHY PARK HONG's first book, Sierra Nevada Natural History translated many volumes of the poetry Translating Mo'um was published in (UC Press) and recently wrote of Czeslaw Milosz and is the author 2002 by Hanging Loose Press. Her sec- a book for Lonely Planet called or editor of several other collections of ond collection, Dance Dance Revolution, A Year of Watching Wildlife. essays and translations, including The was chosen for the Barnard Women He leads nature walks sever- Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, Poets Prize and was published in 2007 al mornings during the week. and Issa; Twentieth Century Pleasures: by W.W. Norton. Her third book, Engine www.sierranaturalist.com Prose on Poetry; and Now & Then: The West, will be published in Spring 2012. Poet's Choice Columns 1996-2000. He She is also the recipient of a Fulbright served as Poet Laureate of the United Fellowship and a National Endowment States from 1995 to 1997. Awarded a for the Arts Fellowship. Her poems have MacArthur Fellowship and the National been published in A Public Space, Poetry, Book Critics Circle Award twice, he is Paris Review, Conjunctions, McSweeney's, a professor of English at UC Berkeley Harvard Review, Boston Review, The and directs the Poetry Program of the Nation, and other journals, and she Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. has reported for the Village Voice, The www.barclayagency.com Guardian, The New York Times Magazine, and Salon. She serves as a poetry editor BRENDA HILLMAN is the author of eight for jubilat magazine. She is an Assistant collections of poetry, all published by Professor at Sarah Lawrence College and Wesleyan University Press, the most is regular faculty at the Queens MFA pro- recent of which are Pieces of Air in the gram in Charlotte, North Carolina. Epic and Practical Water. Hillman has also published three chapbooks: Coffee Three A.M, Autumn Sojourn, The Firecage; edit-

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-3- POETRY WORKSHOP continued MAJOR JACKSON is the author of three col- Book Critics Circle Award. She teaches in lections of poetry: Holding Company pub- the Graduate Creative Writing Program lished by Norton in 2010, Hoops (Norton, at New York University, and 25 years ago 2006) and Leaving Saturn (University of helped found the writing workshop at the Georgia, 2002), winner of the Cave Canem Sigismund Goldwater Memorial Hospital, Poetry Prize and finalist for a National a 900-bed state hospital for the severely Book Critics Circle Award. He is a recipi- physically challenged. From 1998-2000 she ent of a Whiting Writers' Award and has was New York State Poet Laureate. She is been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the a Chancellor of the Academy of American SPECIAL WORKSHOP Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in Poets. Poetry Workshop founder conjunction with the Library of Congress. GALWAY KINNELL will offer a Recently, he served as a creative arts fel- SPECIAL GUEST special one-day workshop to low at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced participants which will take Study at Harvard University and as the GALWAY KINNELL is a former MacArthur place in addition to the regu- Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Fellow and State Poet of Vermont. His lar schedule. He will not lead Baruch College. He is the Richard Dennis Selected Poems won the Pulitzer Prize and regular morning workshops; Green and Gold Professor at University the National Book Award in 1982. A New rather, he will lead several one- of Vermont and a core faculty member of Selected Poems was published in 2000. His day afternoon workshops dur- the Bennington Writing Seminars. He is many other books of poetry include The ing the week. There will be ten the Poetry Editor of the Harvard Review. Book of Nightmares, Mortal Acts, Mortal participants per workshop. The www.majorjackson.com Words, When One Has Lived a Long Time workshop will run for about two Alone, Imperfect Thirst, and, mostly recently, hours. Enrollment is on a limited, SHARON OLDS’s most recent book, One Strong Is Your Hold. He has also published first-apply basis, and is available Secret Thing, was published by Knopf in translations of Rainer Maria Rilke, François only to those enrolled in the 2008. Her previous collection, a selected Villon and other poets. For many years he Poetry Workshops. Applicants poems, Strike Sparks, appeared in 2004. Her was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor should request participation other books of poetry include The Unswept of Creative Writing at New York University. in the application cover sheet. Room; Blood, Tin, Straw; Dead and the Living; He has been a chancellor of the Academy The Wellspring; Satan Says; The Father; and of American Poets, and in 2010 was given An extra tuition fee of $125 will The Gold Cell. Her work has been a finalist the Academy’s Wallace Stevens Award. be charged for this one-day for The National Book Critics Circle Award, He founded the Poetry Program in Squaw workshop. the National Book Award and was the Valley. Galway will be offering a Special Lamont Poetry Selection by The Academy of Afternoon Workshop for participants. See American Poets, and received the National sidebar. COMMUNITY OF WRITERS AT SQUAW VALLEY

Poetry Benefit Reading ROBERT HASS 2 BRENDA HILLMAN 2 CATHY PARK HONG MAJOR JACKSON 2 SHARON OLDS 2 Special Guest GALWAY KINNELL Friday, July 15, 2011 7:30pm ~ San Francisco Location TBA ~ Visit our website for more information www.squawvalleywriters.org [email protected] 877-537-8073 Writers workshops august 6 - 13 hese workshops assist serious writers by exploring the art and craft as well as the business of writing. The week offers daily morning workshops, craft lectures, panel discussions on editing and publishing, staff readings, as well as brief individual conferences. The morning workshops are led by staff writer- Tteachers, editors, or agents. There are separate morning workshops for Fiction and Narrative Nonfiction/ Memoir. In addition to their workshop manuscript, participants may have a second manuscript read by a staff member who meets with them in an individual conference.

Tuition is $800, which includes six evening meals; a limited amount of financial aid is available. Admissions are based on submitted manuscripts. See Application Guidelines, page 13.

the MORNING workshops WRITERS WORKSHOPS STAFF Each workshop consists of LISA ALVAREZ's essays and short sto- MAX BYRD is the author of a number roughly 12 participants and has ries have appeared in the American of detective novels including California a different workshop leader Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, OC Thriller, which won the Shamus Award each day. In each session, the Weekly, Santa Monica Review, Green and, more recently, the historical novels group discusses two, sometimes Mountains Review, Connotation Press: Jefferson, Jackson, and Grant. Bantam pub- three, participant manuscripts. An Online Artifact and the anthologies lished his most recent novel, Shooting the During the course of the week, Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories Sun. He writes frequently for the New York one manuscript by each partici- from the United States and Latin America, Times Book Review and is a Contributing pant is critiqued. Participants Latinos in Lotusland and Geography Editor of the Wilson Quarterly. are asked to arrive with copies of Rage: Remembering the Los Angeles www.maxbyrdbooks.com of the manuscript they would Riots of 1992. With Alan Cheuse, she like treated in workshop. Our edited Writers Workshop in a Book: The RON CARLSON's most recent book is The directors will assign each par- Community of Writers on the Art of Fiction. Signal. His novel Five Skies was one of the ticipant to the most appropriate She is a professor of English at Irvine Los Angeles Times’s Best Books of 2007 staff workshop leader. Valley College. She co-directs the Writers and the One Book Choice of Rhode Island Workshops at the Community of Writers in 2009. His book on writing is Ron Carlson The Fiction Program accepts at Squaw Valley. Writes a Story. With Michelle Latiolais, he roughly 96 participants, while directs the Graduate Program in Fiction the Narrative Nonfiction/ DAVID BAJO was raised on the California- at UC Irvine. Memoir Program accepts 24-25. Mexico border and has worked as a jour- Applicants who work across nalist and translator. He is the author of ALAN CHEUSE is the author of the nov- genres may want to apply to the novels Panopticon (2010) and The 351 els The Bohemians, The Grandmothers' both programs simultaneously, Books of Irma Arcuri and teaches writ- Club, The Light Possessed, and To Catch the but will have to choose if accept- ing at the University of South Carolina. Lightning, plus several collections of short ed to more than one. www.davidbajo.com fiction. As a book commentator, he has contributed to NPR's All Things Considered INDIVIDUAL CONFERENCES ELISE BLACKWELL is the author of four since 1982. His short fiction has appeared Each participant is assigned a novels: Hunger, The Unnatural History of in The New Yorker, Boston Globe Sunday brief one-on-one conference Cypress Parish, Grub, and An Unfinished Magazine, The Antioch Review, and else- with a staff member appropri- Score. Her short stories and cultural criti- where. A collection of his travel writing, ate to his or her ms. These cism have appeared in Witness, Seed, A Trance After Breakfast, was published conferences are scheduled at Quick Fiction, and elsewhere. Her work in 2009. His three-volume introduction the mutual convenience of the has been translated into several languag- to literary study, Literature: Craft & Voice, participant and the assigned es, and her books have been chosen for which he wrote with Nicholas Delbanco, staff member and usually run numerous best-of-the-year lists, including was published by in 2010. His new novel, no longer than twenty min- the Los Angeles Times, Sydney Morning Song of Slaves in the Desert, will appear utes. In most cases, the manu- Herald, and Kirkus. She directs the MFA this spring. www.alancheuse.com script to be discussed will be program at University of South Carolina. the one submitted with the www.eliseblackwell.com LESLIE DANIELS is the former fiction editor application. of Green Mountains Review. Her writing -5- Writers Workshops Staff continued on Page 6 workshops continued has appeared in Ploughshares, The Missouri Senses” is included in the anthology, Writers Review, New Ohio Review, and The Santa Workshop in a Book: The Squaw Valley Monica Review, among others. Her first Community of Writers on the Art of Fiction. DAILY SCHEDULE novel, Cleaning Nabokov’s House, will be pub- www.literati.net/fitch Morning workshops meet lished in spring 2011 by Simon & Schuster. daily from 9 - 12. Afternoon www.lesliedaniels.com KAREN JOY FOWLER is the author of five and evening schedules are novels and three short story collections. quite full, with optional lec- MARK CHILDRESS is the author of the novels Her first novel, Sarah Canary, won the tures, panel discussions, staff A World Made of Fire, V for Victor, Tender, Crazy Commonwealth medal for best first novel readings, and other presenta- in Alabama, Gone for Good, One Mississippi, by a Californian; her third, Sister Noon, was tions. Participants need to set and Georgia Bottoms, just published by a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner; and The Jane aside time for the reading and Little, Brown. He has also written three Austen Book Club was a New York Times best- evaluation of workshop manu- books for children and several screenplays, seller. She has two Nebulas for short fiction, scripts. including the Columbia Pictures production one being for the title story in a new collec- of Crazy in Alabama, an official selection of tion, What I Didn’t See. Another story, “The the Venice and San Sebastian film festivals. Pelican Bar,” recently won both the Shirley www.markchildress.com Jackson and the World Fantasy Award. www.karenjoyfowler.com Finding the Story GILL DENNIS was, with Tom Rickman, found- Gill Dennis’s Finding the ing Director of the Community of Writers LYNN FREED is the author of eight books: Story Workshop assists writers Screenwriting Program. He wrote the movie Reading, Writing & Leaving Home: Life on the in using experiences in their Walk the Line with James Mangold and Page, (essays); The Curse of the Appropriate own lives to inform their fic- Return to Oz with Walter Murch. Currently, Man, (stories); and the novels, The Servants’ tion. It is a workshop in which he is writing a detective story with the Quarters, House of Women, The Mirror, The emotional back-story is discov- director Aza Jacobs and an adaptation of Bungalow, Home Ground, and Friends of the ered and discussed and struc- Nadeem Aslam’s novel The Wasted Vigil. Family. Her short fiction and essays have ture is examined. Enrollment Forever, which he wrote with Tatia Pilieva, appeared in Harper’s, The New Yorker, The is on a limited, first-apply will go into production this Spring. He Atlantic Monthly, Southwest Review, The basis, and is available only to is Master Filmmaker in Residence at the Georgia Review, The New York Times, The those enrolled in the Writers American Film Institute Conservatory and Washington Post, among others. She is the Workshops. No manuscript is won the L.A. Drama Critics’ Circle Award for recipient of the inaugural Katherine Anne necessary. Groups of ten meet Distinguished Direction in Theatre. Porter Award from the American Academy daily. An extra tuition fee of of Arts and Letters, an O.Henry Award, and $150 will be charged for this ALEX ESPINOZA's first novel, Still Water has received fellowships, grants, and sup- workshop. Saints (Random House, 2007) appeared port from the National Endowment for simultaneously in English and Spanish and the Arts and The Guggenheim Foundation, was selected for Barnes & Noble “Discover among others. www.lynnfreed.com Great New Writers.” His nonfiction and reviews have appeared in the Los Angeles DAGOBERTO GILB is the author of Before Times, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, the End, After the Beginning, his latest col- OPEN WORKSHOP and Salon. He currently teaches English and lection of short fiction to be published Several afternoons during the creative writing at Fresno State. His second soon. His previous books are The Flowers, week, SANDS HALL leads the novel, tentatively titled The Other Stranger Gritos, Woodcuts of Women, The Last Open Workshop, which pro- will be published by Random House in 2012. Known Residence of Mickey Acuña, and The vides another opportunity Magic of Blood. He edited Hecho en Tejas: for participants to share their JANET FITCH is the author of the novels An Anthology of Texas Mexican Literature. writing with their conference Paint It Black and White Oleander, an Oprah His fiction and nonfiction has appeared in peers. Work is read aloud and book selection, adapted into a feature film many magazines, most recently Harper's, discussed in a spontaneous in 2002. Her most recent short stories can The New Yorker, and The Threepenny Review. and productive format. be seen in Black Clock 7 and the anthology Gilb is writer-in-residence at the University Los Angeles Noir. She teaches fiction writ- of Houston-Victoria, where he is also execu- ing in the Master of Professional Writing tive director of Centro Victoria, a center for program at the University of Southern Mexican American Literature and Culture. California. Her essay “Coming to our www.dagobertogilb.com Writers Workshops Staff continued on Page 7

-6- workshops continued SANDS HALL is the author of the novel by Entertainment Weekly. Her writing has Catching Heaven, a Willa Award (Women MICHELLE LATIOLAIS is a Professor of appeared in many publications, including Writing the West) finalist and a Random English at the University of California at The New York Times, The San Francisco House Reader’s Circle selection. Recent Irvine. She is the author of the novel Even Chronicle, The UK Observer, O Magazine, stories have appeared in the Green Now which received the Gold Medal for The Sun, Tin House, One Story, and The Mountains Review and Iowa Review; Fiction from the Commonwealth Club Threepenny Review. She's a frequent Great American Short Stories 2009 select- of California. Her second novel, A Proper contributor to the New York Times Book ed her story “Hide & Go Seek” as one of Knowledge, was published in 2008 by Review, and is on the faculty of the MFA “100 Other Notable Stories.” Her work as Bellevue Literary Press. She has published Program at New Mexico State University. a playwright includes a stage adaptation writing in three anthologies, Absolute www.robinromm.com of Alcott’s Little Women and the comic Disaster, Women On The Edge: Writing drama Fair Use. She is also the author of From Los Angeles and Woof! Writers JERVEY TERVALON's first novel Understand a book of writing essays and exercises, on Dogs. Her stories and essays have This won the 1994 New Voices Award Tools of the Writer’s Craft, and has an essay appeared in Zyzzyva, The Antioch Review, from Quality Paper Books. He was award- in the anthology, Writers Workshop in a Western Humanities Review and the Santa ed the Key to the City of New Orleans for Book. She is currently Visiting Professor of Monica Review. Most recently she had his best-selling novel, Dead Above Ground English and Creative Writing at Franklin work in issues of the Iowa Review and the set in New Orleans. He was selected as a & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. Northwest Review. Her most recent book, Disney Screenwriting fellow, and commis- www.sandshall.com Widow, a collection of stories, involutions sioned to adapt a novel and short story and essays, was published in January 2011 for the South Coast Repertory Theater. GERALD HASLAM's latest book is a from Bellevue Press. He’s had four novels, a collection of stories biography of controversial Senator and two anthologies and numerous short S.I. Hayakawa, released this year by FREDERICK REIKEN is the author of three stories, essays and articles published. He University of Nebraska Press. He has novels: The Odd Sea, The Lost Legends currently teaches creative writing at USC. also published nine collections of short of New Jersey, and most recently, Day aalbc.com/authors/jervey_tervalon fiction, four novels, three essay collec- For Night, which was published by tions, three other nonfiction books, Reagan Arthur Books of Little, Brown in Editors and many shorter pieces. His work has 2010. His short stories have appeared in REAGAN ARTHUR is the Editorial Director won honors as varied as Rolling Stone's publications including The New Yorker. of Reagan Arthur Books, an imprint of Ralph J. Gleason Award, a Bay Area Book He currently directs the graduate pro- Little, Brown. Writers she has worked Reviewers' Award, a Commonwealth gram in writing at Emerson College. with include Kate Atkinson, Josh Bazell, Club Medal, and a Western States' Book www.frederickreiken.com Tony Earley, Tina Fey, Joshua Ferris, James Award. www.geraldhaslam.com Hynes, Elizabeth Kostova, Elizabeth JASON ROBERTS is the author of the McCracken, George Pelecanos, Ian Rankin, RHODA HUFFEY is the author of the novel forthcoming Two Shipwrecks, a nonfic- Frederick Reiken, and Joanna Scott. The Hallelujah Side. She has published tion saga of intertwined lives in 19th stories in Tin House, Ploughshares, and century America and Japan. His previous ANN CLOSE is a Senior Editor at Alfred A. Green Mountains Review. book, A Sense of the World, was a final- Knopf. Her fiction authors include Sarah ist for the National Book Critics Circle Bird, Jay Cantor, Stephen Harrigan, James LOUIS B. JONES is the author of the Award and the international Guardian D. Houston, Gish Jen, Brad Leithauser, novels Ordinary Money, Particles and First Book Prize. He is also the winner of Jane Mendelsohn, Alice Munro, Norman Luck, and California's Over, all three New the Van Zorn Prize for short fiction, and a Rush and Mona Simpson. She is the recip- York Times Notable Books. His recent fic- contributor to McSweeney's, The Believer, ient of the Roger Klein Award for Editorial tion and essays have appeared in The the Village Voice and other publications. Excellence. Threepenny Review, Open City and The www.jasonroberts.net Sun and received a Pushcart Prize in JOY JOHANNESSEN has been an edi- 2009. He has reviewed for the New York ROBIN ROMM is the author of two books. tor at Chelsea House, Grove Press, and Times and Washington Post and served The Mother Garden, her collection of sto- Oxford University Press, a senior editor at as Visiting Writer at several MFA pro- ries, was a finalist for the PEN USA prize. HarperCollins Publishers, and the execu- grams, including Washington University. Her memoir, The Mercy Papers, was named tive editor of Delphinium Books. She has His new novel Radiance will be published a New York Times Notable Book of the worked with hundreds of writers, among in May by Counterpoint Press. Year, a San Francisco Best Book of 2009, them Dorothy Allison, Amy Bloom, Harold www.louisbjones.com and a Top Ten Nonfiction Book of the Year Bloom, Michael Cunningham, Ursula Le

-7- Writers Workshops Staff continued on Page 8 workshops continued Guin, and Arthur Miller. She is the co- literary and dramatic agents, and a mem- to You; has co-authored or contributed editor, with Roxanne Coady, of The Book ber of PEN. He directs the Nonfiction to numerous other books; and writes That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Program of the Community of Writers BookPage’s "Author Enablers" column Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter and serves on the board of a Venetian with Sam Barry. Kathi is the founder and a Most to Them. She currently freelances. publishing house. member of the Rock Bottom Remainders, producer of the radio show West Coast MICHAEL PIETSCH is Executive Vice JOY HARRIS is a New York literary agent. Live, and winner of the 2008 Women’s President and Publisher of Little, Brown Before starting her own agency in 1990, National Book Association Award. and Company. Before joining Little, she worked with Robert Lantz as a lit - www.kathiandsam.net Brown in 1991 he worked as an editor at erary agent. She works primarily with Scribner and at Harmony Books. He has literary fiction, strongly-written commer- DIANE JOHNSON is the author of many worked with the novelists Martin Amis, cial fiction, narrative nonfiction across works of fiction and nonfiction including Michael Connelly, Tony Earley, Janet Fitch, a broad range of topics, memoir and the trilogy, Le Mariage, Le Divorce, and Mark Leyner, Rick Moody, Walter Mosley, biography, but what she looks for in all L’Affaire. Her essay appears in the anthol- James Patterson, George Pelecanos, Alice her projects is a clear, original voice, an ogy Writers Workshop in a Book. She is Sebold, Anita Shreve, Nick Tosches, David engaging point of view, and strong char- a two-time finalist for both the Pulitzer Foster Wallace, and Stephen Wright, the acters. Her interest is in working directly Prize and the National Book Award. nonfiction writers Peter Guralnick, Stacy with writers to help guide their careers, Dutton published her most recent novel, Schiff, and David Sedaris, and cartoon- negotiate on their behalf, and protect Lulu in Marrakech, in 2008. ist R. Crumb. Career highlights include their work. editing Hemingway’s posthumous mem- DAVID LUKAS is a naturalist and writ - oir, The Dangerous Summer, in 1985, and ALEXANDRA MACHINIST is a literary er whose writings have appeared in the autobiographies of Chuck Berry, Phil agent with Janklow & Nesbit Associates. Audubon, Orion, BC Wildlife, and Wild Lesh, and Keith Richards. Recent acquisi- A former attorney, she specializes in all Bird, and in the Los Angeles Times. He tions at Little, Brown include new novels types of fiction with the occasional foray is the author of Watchable Birds of the by Chad Harbach and Donna Tartt. into nonfiction. Her authors include New Great Basin and Wild Birds of California. York Times and national bestsellers. She is He revised the classic guidebook Sierra ANDREW TONKOVICH edits the Santa a member of the New York State Bar and Nevada Natural History (UC Press) and Monica Review. His short stories, essays AAR. recently wrote a book for Lonely Planet and commentaries have appeared in called A Year of Watching Wildlife. www. Faultline, OC Weekly, the Los Angeles Times PETER STEINBERG has been a literary sierranaturalist.com and an anthology, Geography of Fear, and agent for fifteen years and the proud he writes about books for Riviera. An owner of his own agency for the last four. ANNE LAMOTT is the author of seven excerpt from his novel Being Mr. Right, His clients have written many New York novels including, Hard Laughter, Rosie, Joe appeared in Green Mountains Review . Times bestsellers and have been nomi- Jones, All New People, and Crooked Little He has taught at UC Irvine, UC Irvine nated for/awarded Edgars, The Pulitzer Heart, as well as four bestselling books Extension, Santa Monica College, Irvine Prize, The Story Prize, The Paris Review of non-fiction, Operating Instructions, Valley College and University of Redlands. Discovery Prize, and National Book Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing He hosts Bibliocracy, a weekly book cul- Awards. and Life, a guide to writing and the ture program on Pacifica Radio affiliate challenges of a writer’s life, Traveling KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles, which focus- Guests: Mercies, and Plan B: Further Thoughts es on literary fiction and nonfiction. SAM BARRY is a marketing and promo- on Faith. She has been honored with tions manager at HarperOne, a division of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Lamott’s HarperCollins, author of How to Play the biweekly Salon Magazine “online diary,” Literary Agents Harmonica: and Other Life Lessons, and a Word by Word, was voted The Best of MICHAEL V. CARLISLE, a founder of musician. Barry offers advice to aspiring the Web by TIME magazine. Academy InkWell Management, began his career at writers as one half of BookPage’s Author Award winning filmmaker Freida Mock William Morris Agency. His authors have Enablers team and tours the country as a made a documentary with Lamott, Bird won Pulitzer Prizes, the Man Booker Prize, member of the Rock Bottom Remainders. by Bird. Her last collection of essays is the National Book Award, the British www.kathiandsam.net Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith. Her Book Award, LA Times Book Award, and new novel, entitled Imperfect Birds, was the PEN Award for First Nonfiction; one KATHI KAMEN GOLDMARK has worked published in Spring 2010. even has an asteroid named for her. He on publicity campaigns for nearly every is a former director of the AAR, a not- major publisher. She is the author of one MALCOLM MARGOLIN founded Heyday, for-profit organization of independent novel, And My Shoes Keep Walking Back a nonprofit publisher based in Berkeley,

-8- Writers Workshops Staff continued on Page 9 workshops continued in 1974. Heyday publishes about twenty- ALUMNI READING SERIES five books a year. Its mission is to deepen ach summer, recently published alumni are invited to return to Squaw people's appreciation and understand- Valley to read from their books and talk about their journey from unpub- ing of California's cultural, natural, his- Elished writers to published authors. The Community of Writers is delighted to toric, literary, and artistic resources. He's received many awards, among them a celebrate the success of these writers and to present them to the participants, lifetime achievement award from the staff, and the public. Bay Area Book Reviewers Association, a Community Leadership Award from the Recent alumni who have been part of this reading series include Anita San Francisco Foundation, and a lifetime Amirrezvani, David Bajo, Aimee Bender, David Corbett, Charmaine Craig, achievement prize for Cultural Freedom Frances Dinkelspiel, Cai Emmons, Alex Espinoza, Joshua Ferris, Jamie Ford, from the Lannan Foundation. Among the books he's written is The Ohlone Way: Vicki, Forman, Tanya Egan Gibson, Glen David Gold, Judith Hendricks, Rhoda Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Huffey, Michael Jaime-Becerra, Regina Louise, Marisa Matarazzo, Christina Bay Area, named by the San Francisco Meldrum, Janis Cooke Newman, Victoria Patterson, Frederick Reiken, Robin Chronicle as one of the hundred most Romm, Elizabeth Rosner, Adrienne Sharp, Alice Sebold, Julia Flynn Siler, Jordan important nonfiction books by a Western Fisher Smith, Ellen Sussman, Lisa Tucker, Brenda Rickman Vantrease, Dora writer of the 20th century. www.heyday- Calott Wang, M.D., and Andrew Winer among others. books.com

AMY TAN’s novels are The Joy Luck Club, 2011 Alumni Readers The Kitchen God’s Wife, The Hundred SUSAN HENDERSON’s first novel, Up From MICHAEL DAVID LUKAS’s first novel, The Secret Senses, The Bonesetter’s Daughter, The Blue was published by HarperCollins in Oracle of Stamboul, was published by and Saving Fish from Drowning, all New 2010. Her work has appeared in many lit- HarperCollins in 2010. A 2010 NEA Fellow in York Times bestsellers. An opera based erary journals and anthologies (and twice Creative Writing, Michael was a Fulbright on The Bonesetter's Daughter, for which nominated for a Puscart Prize) includ- Scholar in Turkey. His writing has appeared she wrote the libretto, premiered in San ing Zoetrope, Bellevue Literary Review, in VQR, Slate, National Geographic Traveler, Francisco in 2008. She has also pub- Amazon Shorts, The Future Dictionary Tikkun, and Georgia Review. He attend- lished a memoir, The Opposite of Fate; of America (McSweeney’s, 2004), The ed the Community of Writers in 2009. two children’s books, The Moon Lady and Best American Non-Required Reading www.michaeldavidlukas.com Sagwa; and numerous articles for maga- (Houghton Mifflin, 2007), Not Quite What zines including The New Yorker, Harper’s I Was Planning (HarperPerennial, 2008), JESSICA O’DWYER is the author of the Bazaar, and National Geographic. Tan's and Online Writing: The Best of the First book, Mamalita: An Adoption Memoir, work has been widely anthologized and Ten Years (Snowvigate Press, 2011). She published by Seal Press in 2010. Her translated into 35 languages. blogs at LitPark.com, and The Nervous essays have been published in the San www.amytan.net Breakdown. She attended the Community Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Adoptive of Writers in 2009 . www.litpark.com Families, West Marin Review, and the Marin Independent Journal. She has SARA J. HENRY's first novel Learning worked in at the San Francisco MOMA, to Swim, (Crown, 2011) is set in the the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Adirondacks, where she worked as a and the Museum of Contemporary Art newspaper sports editor. She has a mas- San Diego. She attended the Community ters’ degree in journalism from Carleton of Writers in 2006 and 2007. University (Ontario), is a former book www.mamalitathebook.com COMMUNITY editor, and the author of several nonfic- tion books. She attended Squaw in 2006 ALIA YUNIS’s novel, The Night Counter and 2007. www.sarajhenry.com was published by Random House in 2010). Target Stores nationwide chose OFWRITERS ALMA KATSU's first novel, The Taker will the paperback release as a “Hot Reads, be published by Gallery Books/Simon & Emerging Voices” selection, and it was Schuster, in June 2011. She is a graduate selected as a top summer read by the of the Johns Hopkins Writing Program Chicago Tribune and Boston Phoenix. She and has been published in an anthology grew up in the U.S. and Middle East, of Washington DC women writers. She particularly Beirut during its civil war. attended the Community of Writers in She teaches film and television at Zayed 2003. www.almakatsu.com University in Abu Dhabi. www.aliayunis.com SCREENWRITING AUGUST 6-13 he Screenwriting Program is an intensive week-long program which focuses on individual attention and work-in-progress, by award-winning writers and writer/directors. You will learn to crystallize the story and excise extraneous elements. Film clips, lectures and writing exercises are incorporated into Tdaily workshops emphasizing all aspects of craft including narrative point of view, character analysis, and scene structure. Designed for both screenwriters and filmmakers, this unique program invites both narrative features and character-driven documentaries. Our goal is to assist writers to improve their craft and thus move them closer to production.

Space is limited to 25 participants. Tuition is $775.00, which includes 6 evening meals; financial aid is available for particular circumstances. Admissions are based on submissions. See Application Guidelines, page 13. DAILY SCHEDULE SCREENWRITING STAFF Morning workshops stress (Production commitments will determine the availability of staff members and guests.) the language and grammar of EUGENE CORR is a writer/director of films on Mexican wrestling culture, Lucha Libre film. Topics include finding the and television whose credits include the de Tijuana. He has recently completed a story, character analysis, script Academy Award-nominated Desert Bloom, documentary on human sexuality, Erotic development, narrative point Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter’s Journey, (co- Powerplay, for Dr. Gabriele Hoff. He is in pro- of view, plotting, subplots and written/directed with Robert Hillmann), cess on a ten-part film-poem on the Brazilian dialogue. In-class exercises and Prefontaine for Disney Pictures, and Mike Amazon, as well as and a film on shaman- group projects are assigned. Hammer: Too Legit for VH1 and The Joe Louis ism. He teaches Writing for Visual Media as The afternoons are devoted Story for Hallmark Entertainment. His tele- part of San Francisco State’s Digital Video to individual conferences, vision credits include Against the Law (Fox), Intensive Program and has served as a pan- which take precedence over Shannon’s Deal (NBC) and I’ll Fly Away (NBC). elist for many grants organizations includ- all activities. Time permitting, Currently he is producing a documentary ing Independent Television Service (ITVS) participant scenes can be read feature, From Ghost Town to Havana, shot and the Rockefeller and Jerome Foundations. by professional actors, taped in Oakland, California, and Havana, with and critiqued. Roberto Chile as cinematographer and co- PATRICIA MEYER is a screenwriter/producer producer. for both film and television. Her many cred- Special screenings and dis- its include the ABC miniseries, The Women cussions in the late afternoons PAMELA GRAY is a screenwriter whose cred- of Brewster Place, starring Oprah Winfrey, and evenings are scheduled. its include Walk on the Moon (aka The Blouse which earned an Emmy nomination for Man), which received a Golden Satellite Outstanding Miniseries. She executive- nomination, Music of the Heart, and Dirty produced Nora Ephron’s directorial debut Dancing 2: Havana Nights. Variety named her motion picture, This Is My Life, and has writ- one of the “Ten Screenwriters to Watch.” She ten screenplays for Martin Scorsese and wrote the screenplay of Conviction, released for Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions. INDIVIDUAL CONFERENCES by Fox Searchlight in Fall 2010 and voted Currently she has a one-hour drama series Best Picture by the Boston Film Festival. It in development with 20th Century Fox On arrival, each participant is starred Hilary Swank, who received a nomi- Television and CBS and her family comedy, assigned a mentor who will nation for a SAG award for best actress. The Ex-Boy, will be in production in 2011. already be familiar with the She is currently writing a comedy feature Packaging for her noir/thriller, Waikiki, is script. The screenplay or rough for Paramount and developing a Broadway also in process. She is a Senior Lecturer in cut submitted is the one to musical about the Woodstock Festival. Screenwriting at American Film Institute. be treated unless changed by a prearranged agreement. TONEY MERRITT is a writer, editor and cin- CHRISTOPHER MONGER is a writer/director Conferences take place during ematographer. An independent filmmaker whose credits include The Englishman Who the afternoons. Rewrites and for 35 years, his films have been screened Went Up a Hill But Came Down A Mountain for revisions will be assigned. at festivals globally. Currently he is edit- Miramax; Girl From Rio; Waiting for the Light; ing a documentary, The Life and Work of Crime Pays, for Film Four International. His Art Carpenter. He is serving as a camera- television credits include the record-breaking person for Gustavo Vasquez’s documentary film Seeing Red, for Granada and WGBH, for Screenwriting Staff continued on Page 11 -10- SCREENWRITING workshops continued which he received a Christopher Award. LISA ROSENBERG is a screenwriter whose MICHAEL URBAN's first feature-length Recently he directed the documentary credits include independent features The film, Saved! was written while he was a special, Thanks to Roy London, and A Riddle and Savage Dawn, the dramatic fellow at the AFI. Currently he is working Sense of Wonder, based on the play. He short Friends, KCET’s The Oddest Couple on a dark comedy with David Duchovny wrote the screenplay for Temple Grandin, documentary series, the internet-based attached to star, for Then Productions and which aired in February on HBO, starring political series Reinventing America and Bold Pictures. He is in post-production for Clare Danes as Temple Grandin. Monger the Emmy award-winning public TV series his first feature as director, Longer Lasts received the Humanitas Prize and was Psychology: The Study of Human Behavior. Longer, and has a half-hour television nominated for a Writer's Guild Award. She recently completed her adaptation series for Warner Brothers. The film further garnered 7 Emmys, a of Edie Meidav’s award-winning novel, Voice Award, won the Monte Carlo TV Crawl Space which is being considered SPECIAL GUeSTS WILL INCLUDE Festival and is nominated for 3 Satellite for European production. She writes a (Production commitments Awards. Clare Danes won Best Actress column on storytelling for SF360, the S.F. will determine availability.) Award at the Golden Globes has also been Film Society’s website. nominated for a SAG award. Recently he SARAH RYAN BLACK’s production com- has finished adapting Maggie O'Farrell's TOM SCHLESINGER is a screenwriter and pany is Grand Illusions. novel, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, story consultant whose collaborations for CrossDay Films and is completing include Nowhere in Africa with Caroline DEBBIE BRUBAKER has over 25 years of The Widow Clicquot, (the woman behind Link, which won the Academy Award in experience in motion picture and video 'Veuve Clicquot' Champagne)based on 2003 for Best Foreign Film, and Beyond production. She lives and works in San the book by Tilar J. Mazzeo for Vox3Films. Silence, nominated for an Academy Francisco. Award in 1998. Additionally in 1996 he JUDITH RASCOE’s screenwriting credits collaborated with writer-director Doris GRAHAM LEGGAT has been the executive include Eat a Bowl of Tea, Havana, Endless Dorrie on Nobody Loves Me, which won director of the San Francisco Film Society Love, Who’ll Stop the Rain, the screen the German Film Prize, and The Fisherman since October 2005. adaptation of Robert Stone’s novel Dog and His Wife. Tom is currently co-produc- Soldiers, and Patricia Highsmith’s novel, ing the feature film, Playground with DANIELLE RENFREW was an award- win- Ripley Underground, soon to be released. Robert Cort Productions in Los Angeles. ning documentary filmmaker before She was the story consultant on Roger He has just completed an adaptation of becoming a producer in Los Angeles. Spottiswood's Shake Hands With the Sergio Bambaren’s book, Dolphin, Story of Devil, to be released this year, and for The a Dreamer, for an animated feature. SCOTT ROSENFELT is an independent pro- Bang Bang Club, a feature about young ducer who founded I.E. Productions with conflict photographers in South Africa CAMILLE THOMASSON’s screenwriting producer and writing partner, Billie Grief; also to released in 2011. credits include Ave Maria and Luther. he also is a partner in Picture Play Films. Her television work includes The Brook TOM RICKMAN is a screenwriter/director Ellison Story, which won a Christopher GEORGE RUSH’s law practice special- whose many credits include Coal Miner’s Award; The Magic of Ordinary Days; izes in the entertainment industry with Daughter, for which he was nominat- The Valley of Light, for which she was emphasis on the San Francisco Bay Area ed for an Academy Award; Everybody’s awarded a Templeton Prize; and a second film community. All-American; and The River Rat (which Christopher Award for her adaptation he also directed). His television credits of Patricia Reilly Giff’s Pictures of Hollis GAIL SILVA is an advisor and curator for include Truman, nominated for an Emmy Wood. She adapted The Stacey Bess Story, arts organizations, individual artists and Award; Tuesdays With Morrie, for which based on the autobiography, Nobody filmmakers, with nearly 30 years of ser- he received both the Humanitas Award Don’t Love Nobody, for Hallmark Hall of vice to the independent media field. and the Writers Guild Award; and The Fame. Also for Hallmark Hall of Fame, Reagans, nominated for an Emmy. He she wrote The Lois Wilson Story, based RON YERXA is a producer and partner of adapted Front of the Class from the book on the book by William Borchert which Bona Fide Productions in Los Angeles. by the same name, for Hallmark Hall aired on CBS in 2010, for which Winona of Fame (2008). Currently he is writing Ryder received a SAG nomination for best The Miles Davis Story for the producer, actress. She is currently working with pro- Rudy Langrich (Hotel Rwanda) and has ducer Bryan Gambogi on a feature film completed A Smile As Big As the Moon for about Shirley Chisholm. She is currently Hallmark Hall of Fame, which will start working with producer Bryan Gambogi production in 2011. on a feature film about Shirley Chisholm.

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