2012 Brochure

COMMUNITY SUMMER WRITING WORKSHOPS OFWRITERS POETRY WORKSHOPS: June 23-30, 20i2 WRITERS WORKSHOPS: July 7-i4, 20i2 SCREENWRITING WORKSHOPS: July 7-i4, 20i2

COMMUNITY OF WRITERS AT SQUAW VALLEY FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE Every summer for 43 years, the Community of Writers at A limited amount of financial aid is available from funds donated Squaw Valley has brought together poets and prose writers by generous individuals and institutions. Requests for financial for separate weeks of workshops, individual conferences, lec- aid should accompany applications. Assistance is in the form of tures, panels, readings, and discussions of the craft and the partial Tuition Waivers and Scholarships. business of writing. Our goal is to assist writers to improve their craft and thus move them closer to publication. TRAVEL Squaw Valley is located seven miles from Tahoe City and ten SQUAW VALLEY, CALIFORNIA miles from Truckee. It is a four-hour drive from the Bay Area, Squaw Valley, located in the California Sierra Nevada, close to and an hour from the Reno/Lake Tahoe International Airport. the north shore of Lake Tahoe, is a ski resort, the site of the It is not necessary to have a car during the week. Upon accep- 1960 Winter Olympics. Summers are warm and sunny; partici- tance, participants will be sent more information about air- pants will have opportunities to hike to the local waterfalls, port shuttles, carpooling to the valley, and accommodations. take nature walks up the mountain, swim in Lake Tahoe, and play tennis, ice skate, or bike along the Truckee River. HOUSING & MEALS Evening meals are included in the tuition, but participants THE WORKSHOPS are on their own for breakfast and lunch. Nearby in the valley Weeklong workshops in Poetry, Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, are cafes and restaurants and a small general store. Houses Memoir, and Screenwriting are offered in July and August to and condominiums in the valley are rented for participant poets and writers. The following pages include information housing. Participants share these units and may choose sin- about these programs and the teaching staff as well as appli- gle, double, or multiple occupancy rooms at reasonable rates. cation procedures. Participants may, of course, arrange their own accommodations. We will send more information about our housing options, as well as local hotels, upon acceptance. Meanwhile, visit ADMISSIONS www.squawvalleywriters/org/FAQS.html. 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 DATES & DEADLINES 13. Please apply early. Submission must be received by the application deadline listed below to be considered.

CONTACT INFORMATION Brett Hall Jones, Executive Director Community of Writers (530) 470-8440 (until June 5) (530) 583-5200 (after June 5) [email protected] or [email protected] *Financial Aid is available FORTY-TWO YEARS "What an amazing experience this was for me! It continues to resonate, a resonance I suspect DIRECTORS will continue for a long time to come. Insights, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR contacts and friendships made--on and on. What we most learned from the week occurred Brett Hall Jones COMMUNITY through something akin to osmosis. Richly accidental and serendipitous in some ways, this SUMMER WORKSHOPS quality also reflects the deep currents flowing OFWRITERS within decades of such gatherings and the ongoing sense of community." FICTION —David Stallings Lisa Alvarez “The experience was, by far, the best writing Louis B. Jones workshop I've ever been to -- from the beautiful surroundings and my great housemates to the NONFICTION craft lectures that inspired me and the workshops Michael Carlisle that taught me so much more about poetry and poetics. The housing, the facilities, the straight- COMMUNITY OF WRITERS AT SQUAW VALLEY forward manner of how you cared for us -- and POETRY all the other details were a perfect foundation Robert Hass for me to focus on my own writing and creativ- A Brief History ity. The workshop renewed my writing life." —Valerie Wallace SCREENWRITING The Community of Writers was established Diana Fuller in 1969 by the late novelists Blair Fuller "Quite simply, it was one of the most inspiring and Oakley Hall, who were both residents and educational times of my writing life. The BOARD OF DIRECTORS of the valley. It was originally staffed by staff set such a loving, positive tone for the week, PRESIDENT and the entire writing faculty followed suit. There a band of San Francisco writers including was never a sense of stratification between the James Naify David Perlman, Barnaby Conrad, and John faculty and students, only the sense that we are Leggett, the latter two of whom went on to all in this together, and we’re all doing important VICE PRESIDENT found, respectively, the Santa Barbara Writers work. And to me, that was the central message: Joanne Meschery Writing is important, vital work. Difficult Conference and the Napa Writers Conference. work, but absolutely essential to the world, The Community of Writers continues to be especially in these times, and as writers we SECRETARY directed by Brett Hall Jones. have a responsibility to craft the best prose and Eddy Ancinas most compelling stories that we’re capable of.” —Ryan Griffith Over the years the Community has mount- FINANCIAL OFFICER ed workshops in Fiction, Nonfiction, “Community of Writers was one of the best Burnett Miller Screenwriting, Playwriting, Poetry, and weeks of my life. I felt like I received an intense Nature Writing (the Art of the Wild Program, MFA in one week. The caliber of writing was DIRECTORS which was co-produced by the University of superb, and to be able to learn from a brilliant staff about the craft of writing, and then dis- Osvaldo Ancinas Edwina Leggett California at Davis), and Writing the Medical cuss it with fellow writers, was invaluable. The Jan Buscho Michael Pietsch Experience. Lisa Alvarez and Louis B. Jones Community of Writers dissolved the barrier be- Max Byrd Christopher Sindt now direct the Writers Workshop, which was tween the unpublished writer and the publish- Alan Cheuse Kevin Starr for twenty years directed by Carolyn Doty. ing world." —Amanda Coggin Mark Childress Amy Tan Literary agent Michael Carlisle directs the Nancy Cushing John C. Walker Nonfiction Program. Galway Kinnell directed "It was an excellent experience in a beautiful Richard Ford Lucinda Watson the Poetry Program for 17 years and Robert place and I met some outstanding people. One of the things that struck me most was how Diana Fuller Harold Weaver Hass has directed it since 2004. Diana Fuller committed and joyous all the organizers and Barbara Hall Al Young directs the Screenwriters Workshop, which was staff were. This infused the entire event with a founded by screenwriters Tom Rickman and tremendous energy, and I'll never forget it." —Eric Taylor Aragon How to Contact Us Gill Dennis. You may e-mail Executive Director “My time at the screenwriting program in Squaw Brett Hall Jones: The Community publishes Omnium Gatherum Valley was a rare opportunity to step away from [email protected] & Newsletter, chronicling the publishing and my harried life and focus on my script with the or call (530) 470-8440 other successes of its participants. It is avail- guidance of incredibly talented mentors. I went in She can answer most of your questions about with a draft that I knew needed to be rebuilt from able in a printed booklet as well as online. For the ground up, so I was ready for it. My advisor applications, housing, transportation, etc. more information visit: went above and beyond for my script, and the www.squawvalleywriters.org/newsletter.html sessions with other mentors were invaluable. www.squawvalleywriters.org I highly recommend this program to any screenwriter looking for an intensive workshop -2- with a lineup of patient and generous teachers.” —Amanda Micheli POETRY JUNE 23-30 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 $840 and includes seven evening meals. (Accomodations are extra.) A limited amount of financial aid is available. See Application Guidelines, page 13.

POETRY STAFF

KAZIM ALI is a poet, essayist, fiction writer and translator. His books include ROBERT HASS is a poet, translator SHARON OLDS’s most recent book, several volumes of poetry, includ- and essayist. Ecco/HarperCollins is One Secret Thing, was published by ing The Far Mosque, winner of Alice publishing his forthcoming book of Knopf in 2008. Her previous collec- James Books' New England/New York prose, What Light Can Do: Essays 1985- tion, a selected poems, Strike Sparks, Award, The Fortieth Day (BOA Editions), 2010. His other recent books include appeared in 2004. Her other books and the cross-genre text Bright Felon: his selected poems, The Apple Trees at of poetry include The Unswept Room; Autobiography and Cities (Wesleyan Olema (Ecco/HarperCollins), Time and Blood, Tin, Straw; The Dead and the University Press). Last year, Omnidawn Materials (Ecco/ HarperCollins), which Living; The Wellspring; Satan Says; The Press published a translation of Water's was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Father; and The Gold Cell. She teach- Footfall by Sohrab Sepehri. His nov- National Book Award, and his edition es in the Graduate Creative Writing els include Quinn's Passage (blazeVox of Walt Whitman's Song of Myself and Program at New York University, and books), named one of "The Best Books Other Poems (Counterpoint). His other helped found two ongoing outreach of 2005" by Chronogram magazine and books of poetry include Sun Under writing workshops: one 25 years ago The Disappearance of Seth (Etruscan Wood: New Poems, Human Wishes, at the Sigismund Goldwater Memorial Press), and his books of essays include Praise and Field Guide. He has also co- Hospital, a 900-bed state hospital for Orange Alert: Essays on Poetry, Art and translated many volumes of the poetry the severely physically challenged; and the Architecture of Silence (University of Czeslaw Milosz and is the author one two years ago, for veterans of the of Michigan Press), and last year’s or editor of several other collections Iraq and Afghanistan wars. From 1998- Fasting for Ramadan (Tupelo Press). In of essays and translations, including 2000 she was New York State Poet addition to co-editing Jean Valentine: The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Laureate, and she is a Chancellor of the This-World Company from the Under Buson, and Issa; Twentieth Century Academy of American Poets. Knopf will Discussion series of the University of Pleasures: Prose on Poetry; and Now & publish her new book Stag's Leap in Michigan Press, he is a contributing Then: The Poet's Choice Columns 1996- September. editor for AWP Writers Chronicle and 2000. He served as Poet Laureate of poetryfoundation.org/bio/sharon-olds associate editor of the literary maga- the United States from 1995 to 1997. zine FIELD and founding editor of the Awarded a MacArthur Fellowship and small press Nightboat Books. He is an the National Book Critics Circle Award associate professor of Creative Writing twice, he is a professor of English at and Comparative Literature at Oberlin UC Berkeley and directs the Poetry College and teaches in the Masters of Program of the Community of Writers Fine Arts program of the University of at Squaw Valley. Southern Maine. www.barclayagency.com/hass.html

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CLAUDIA RANKINE is a poet and playwright. C.D. WRIGHT is the author of more than She has published several collections of a dozen books, most recently, One With poetry, including Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An Others: a little book of her days, which American Lyric (Graywolf), Plot (Grove Press), was a finalist for the National Book Award and Nothing in Nature is Private (CSU Poetry and won the National Book Critics Circle Series), which won the Cleveland State Award and the Leonore Marshall Prize. Her Poetry Prize. With Juliana Spahr, Rankine book Rising, Falling, Hovering won the 2009 The Lucille Clifton Scholarship: co-edited American Women Poets in the International Griffin Poetry Prize. With pho- If you would like to be 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language; tographer Deborah Luster she published considered for the Lucille and with Lisa Sewell, American Poets in One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana which Clifton Scholarship (Tuition + the 21st Century: The New Poetics. Her won the Lange-Taylor Prize from the Center Twin Housing), please poems have been included in the anthol- for Documentary Studies at Duke University. indicate this on your ogies Great American Prose Poems: From On a fellowship for writers from the Wallace cover sheet. Poe to the Present Best American Poetry, Foundation she curated a “Walk-in Book of and The Garden Thrives: Twentieth Century Arkansas,” a multi-media exhibition that Please refer to the Poetry African-American Poetry. Her play Detour/ toured throughout her native state. In 2004 Program page on our website South Bronx premiered in 2009 at New she was named a MacArthur Fellow. In 2005 for more information and York’s Foundry Theater. Rankine has been she was given the Robert Creeley Award. requirements. awarded fellowships from the Academy of Wright is from the Arkansas Ozarks. She American Poets, the National Endowment lives in Rhode Island and is on the faculty for the Arts, and the Lannan Foundation. at Brown University. She is married to poet Born in Kingston, Jamaica, she earned a BA Forrest Gander and they have a son, Brecht. o at Williams College and an MFA at Columbia

-4- WRITERS WORKSHOPS JULY 7 - 14 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. Nonfiction or memoir submissions should be in a narrative form; travel, self-help, how-to and scholarly works will not be considered.

Tuition is $840, which includes six evening meals; a limited amount of financial aid is available. Admissions are based on submitted manuscripts. See Application Guidelines, page 13. Nonfiction applicants should refer to our website for more information: www.squawvalleywriters.org/FAQ.html THE MORNING WORKSHOPS WRITERS WORKSHOPS STAFF Each workshop consists of roughly 12 participants and has LISA ALVAREZ's essays and short stories MARK CHILDRESS is the author of the nov- a different workshop leader have appeared in the American Book Review, els A World Made of Fire, V for Victor, Tender, each day. In each session, the the Los Angeles Times, OC Weekly, Santa Crazy in Alabama, Gone for Good, One group discusses two, sometimes Monica Review, Green Mountains Review, Mississippi, and Georgia Bottoms, just pub- three, participant manuscripts. Connotation Press: An Online Artifact and lished in paperback by Little, Brown. He has During the course of the week, the anthologies Sudden Fiction Latino: Short- also written three books for children and one manuscript by each partici- Short Stories from the United States and Latin several screenplays, including the Columbia pant is critiqued. Participants America, Latinos in Lotusland and Geography Pictures production of Crazy in Alabama, are asked to arrive with copies of Rage: Remembering the Los Angeles Riots an official selection of the Venice and San of the manuscript they would of 1992. With Alan Cheuse, she edited Sebastian film festivals. like treated in workshop. Our Writers Workshop in a Book: The Community www.markchildress.com directors will assign each par- of Writers on the Art of Fiction. She is a ticipant to the most appropriate professor of English at Irvine Valley College. BERNARD COOPER’s most recent book is She co-directs the Writers Workshops at the The Bill From My Father (Simon & Schuster). staff workshop leader. Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. He is also the author of Maps To Anywhere, A Year of Rhymes, Truth Serum, and a col- The Fiction Program accepts MAX BYRD is the author of a number of lection of short stories, Guess Again. He is roughly 96 participants, while detective novels including California the recipient of the 1991 PEN/USA Ernest the Narrative Nonfiction/ Thriller, which won the Shamus Award, Hemingway Award, a 1995 O. Henry Prize, Memoir Program accepts 24-25. and, more recently, the historical novels a 1999 Guggenheim grant, and a 2004 Applicants who work across Jefferson, Jackson, and Grant. Bantam pub- National Endowment of the Arts fellow- genres may want to apply to lished his most recent novel, Shooting the ship in literature. His work has appeared both programs simultaneously, Sun. He writes frequently for the New York in several anthologies, including The Best but will have to choose if accept- Times Book Review and is a Contributing American Essays of 1988, 1995, and 1997, ed to more than one. Editor of the Wilson Quarterly. He is found- 2002, and 2008. His work has also appeared ing publisher of Willowbank Books. in magazines and literary reviews includ- INDIVIDUAL CONFERENCES www.maxbyrdbooks.com ing, Harper's Magazine, The Paris Review, Each participant is assigned a Story, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, brief one-on-one conference RON CARLSON's most recent book is Room and The New York Times Magazine. He with a staff member appropri- Service, his first collection of poems. His has contributed to National Public Radio's ate to his or her ms. These most recent novel is The Signal, which "This American Life" and for six years wrote conferences are scheduled at became a best seller in France. His novel monthly features as the art critic for Los the mutual convenience of the Five Skies was one of the Los Angeles Times’s Angeles Magazine. He teaches creative non- participant and the assigned Best Books of 2007 and the One Book fiction at Bennington College, and held the staff member and usually run Choice of Rhode Island in 2009. His book on Mary Routee Distinguished Writer Chair at no longer than twenty min- writing is Ron Carlson Writes a Story. With Scripps College. utes. In most cases, the manu- Michelle Latiolais, he directs the Graduate script to be discussed will be Program in Fiction at UC Irvine. the one submitted with the application. -5- Writers Workshops Staff continued on Page 6 WORKSHOPS CONTINUED JOHN DANIEL is the author of three memoirs of writing essays and exercises, Tools of the and two books of personal essays, as well as Writer’s Craft, and has an essay in the anthol- two collections of poems. His most recent ogy Writers Workshop in a Book. Sands is cur- work is The Far Corner, which won the 2011 rently Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative DAILY SCHEDULE Morning workshops meet Oregon Book Award in Literary Nonfiction. Writing at Franklin & Marshall College in A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and founding editor daily from 9 - 12. Afternoon University, he has been awarded an NEA fel- of the F&M Alumni Arts Review. and evening schedules are lowship, the John Burroughs Nature Essay quite full, with optional lec- Award, a Pacific Northwest Booksellers DANA JOHNSON is the author of Break Any tures, panel discussions, staff Award, three Oregon Book Awards in literary Woman Down, for which she received the readings, and other presenta- nonfiction, and a Pushcart Prize, among other Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. tions. Participants need to set honors. He has taught as writer-in-residence Her fiction has been published in numer- aside time for the reading and at colleges and universities around the coun- ous journals and anthologies, including evaluation of workshop manu- try. Of Earth: New and Selected Poems, 1978- Callaloo, Iowa Review, Slake, Missouri Review, scripts. 2010, will be published in Fall 2012. and California Uncovered: Stories for the 21st www.johndaniel-author.net Century. Her novel, Elsewhere, California, will be published by Counterpoint Press in 2012. GILL DENNIS was, with Tom Rickman, found- She teaches creative writing and literature at FINDING THE STORY ing Director of the Community of Writers the University of Southern California. Screenwriting Program. He wrote the movie GILL DENNIS’s Finding the Walk the Line with James Mangold and Return LOUIS B. JONES is the author of the nov- Story Workshop assists writers to Oz with Walter Murch. Currently, he is els Ordinary Money, Particles and Luck, and in using experiences in their writing a detective story with the director California's Over, all three New York Times own lives to inform their fic- Aza Jacobs and an adaptation of Nadeem Notable Books. His recent fiction and essays tion. It is a workshop in which Aslam’s novel The Wasted Vigil. Forever, which have appeared in The Threepenny Review, emotional back-story is discov- he wrote with Tatia Pilieva, will go into pro- Open City and The Sun and received a Pushcart ered and discussed and struc- duction this spring. Currently he is adapt- Prize in 2009. He has reviewed for the New ture is examined. Enrollment ing of Joe Sacco’s graphic novel, Footnotes York Times and Washington Post and served is on a limited, first-apply in Gaza, with the director Denis Villeneuve. as Visiting Writer at several MFA programs, basis, and is available only to He is Master Filmmaker in Residence at the including Washington University. His new those enrolled in the Writers American Film Institute Conservatory and novel, Radiance, was published last year by Workshops. No manuscript is won the L.A. Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Counterpoint Press. www.louisbjones.com necessary. Groups of ten meet Distinguished Direction in Theatre. He teach- daily. An extra tuition fee of es the Finding the Story Workshop. JOANNE MESCHERY has published short sto- $150 will be charged for this ries, essays, and the novels, In A High Place, A workshop. GLEN DAVID GOLD is the author of Carter Gentleman’s Guide to the Frontier, which was Beats the Devil, a national bestseller cur- a PEN/Faulkner finalist, and Home and Away. rently translated into 14 languages. His fic- She is also the author of a book of nonfiction, tion, essays and memoirs have appeared in Truckee. Selwa Press has published two of Playboy, McSweeney's, The Independent UK her novels as ebooks. She is teaching in the and The New York Times Sunday Magazine, low-residency MFA program at Sierra Nevada OPEN WORKSHOP and he has written comic books for DC and College. Several afternoons during the Dark Horse. His novel Sunnyside was pub- week, SANDS HALL leads the lished by Knopf in 2009. VARLEY O’CONNOR is the author of three Open Workshop, which pro- www.glendavidgold.com novels, Like China, A Company of Three, and vides another opportunity The Cure. Her fourth novel, The Master’s for participants to share their SANDS HALL is the author of the novel Muse, will be published by Scribner in May. writing with their conference Catching Heaven, a Willa Award finalist and Her short prose and fiction craft interviews peers. Work is read aloud and a Random House Reader’s Circle selection. have appeared in AWP Writer’s Chronicle, discussed in a spontaneous Stories have appeared in the Green Mountains Faultline, Driftwood, The MacGuffin, The and productive format. There Review and Iowa Review; the latter was select- Sun, and Algonkian magazine. She teach- ed by Great American Short Stories 2009 for es fiction and creative nonfiction at Kent is no extra fee for this work- their list of 100 Other Notable Stories. Her State University and for The Northeast Ohio shop. work as a playwright includes a stage adapta- Master of Fine Arts Program. tion of Alcott’s Little Women and the comic www.varleyoconnor.com drama Fair Use. She is the author of a book -6- Writers Workshops Staff continued on Page 7 WORKSHOPS CONTINUED VICTORIA PATTERSON’s novel This Vacant for creative writing at Eastern Washington Paradise, was a New York Times Book Review University. www.gregoryspatz.com EDITORS Editors’ Choice. Drift, her collection of inter- DIANA COGLIANESE has been at Alfred A. linked short stories, was a finalist for the LISA TUCKER is the author of six novels: The Knopf since 2003 and edits primarily liter- California Book Award and the 2009 Story Song Reader, Shout Down the Moon, Once ary fiction. She has helped to bring several Prize. The San Francisco Chronicle selected Upon a Day, The Cure for Modern Life, The fiction writers to the Knopf Group, includ- Drift as one of the best books of 2009. Her Promised World and The Winters in Bloom. ing Javier Marías, Annabel Lyon, Rhidian work has appeared in various publications Her books have been published in fourteen Brook, Patricio Pron, Jo Baker, Evie Wyld, and journals, including the Los Angeles countries and selected for Borders Original whose novel won the John Llewellyn Rhys Times, Alaska Quarterly Review, and the Voices, Book of the Month Club, the Literary Prize, and Andrew Porter, whose story col- Southern Review. She teaches at Antioch Guild, Doubleday Book Club, People maga- lection won the Flannery O’Connor Prize. University’s Master of Fine Arts program zine Critic’s Choice, Redbook Book Club, and as a Visiting Assistant Professor at UC Amazon Book of the Year, Barnes & Noble JOHN A. GLUSMAN is vice president and Riverside. www.victoriapatterson.net Reading Group program, Target “Breakout” editor-in-chief of W.W. Norton’s trade Books, the American Library Association department. A publishing veteran of JASON ROBERTS is the author of the forth- Popular Paperbacks, and the Indie Next more than thirty years, he has worked coming book Two Shipwrecks (Simon & list. Her short work has appeared in The with Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz; Schuster). His previous book, A Sense of the New York Times, Seventeen, and The Oxford National Book Award winner Richard World, was a finalist for the National Book American. www.lisatucker.com Powers; National Book Critics Circle Award Critics Circle Award and the international winner Jim Crace and finalists Andrew X. Guardian First Book Prize. He is also the ANDREW WINER’s second novel is The Pham and Philip Ball; Pulitzer Prize win- winner of the Van Zorn Prize for short fic- Marriage Artist (Henry Holt, 2010), which ners Laurie Garrett and David Rohde; the tion, and a contributor to McSweeney's, The was released in paperback this fall by New York Times bestselling author, Erik Believer, the Village Voice and other publi- Picador. His first novel, The Color Midnight Larson; New York Times chief Washington cations. http://jasonroberts.net Made, was a national bestseller. A recipi- correspondent David Sanger; primatolo- ent of a National Endowment for the Arts gist Frans de Waal; paleoanthropologist ROBIN ROMM is the author of two books. Fellowship in Fiction, he is Chair of Creative Donald Johanson, and many other writ- The Mother Garden, her collection of sto- Writing at the University of California, ers. He has taught at Columbia University ries, was a finalist for the PEN USA prize. Riverside. www.andrewwiner.com and the New School for Social Research, Her memoir, The Mercy Papers, was named and has been a guest lecturer at New a New York Times Notable Book of the AL YOUNG was California’s poet laure- York University, the University of Houston, Year, a San Francisco Best Book of 2009, ate from 2005-2008. His most recent McNeese University, and Eugene Lang and a Top Ten Nonfiction Book of the Year book, Jazz Idiom: Blueprints, Stills and College. His essays, articles, opinion pieces, by Entertainment Weekly. Her writing has Frames (The Jazz Photography of Charles and reviews have appeared in the San appeared in many publications, includ- L. Robinson), received the 2009 PEN- Francisco Chronicle, Economist, Washington ing The New York Times, The San Francisco Oakland Award. Other books include Journalism Review, Washington Post Book Chronicle, The UK Observer, O Magazine, Something About the Blues: An Unlikely World, Rolling Stone, Dissent, Paris Review, Tin House, One Story, and The Threepenny Collection of Poetry; Coastal Nights and Virginia Quarterly Review, New Leader, and Review. She's a frequent contributor to the Inland Afternoons; the reprint of The Sound Publishers Weekly. His book, Conduct Under New York Times Book Review, and served of Dreams Remembered, which received Fire: Four American Doctors and their Fight on the faculty of the MFA Program at New the 2002 American Book Award; African for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941- Mexico State University. American Literature: A Brief Introduction 1945 (Viking/Penguin), was named by the www.robinromm.com and Anthology; and Mingus Mingus: Chicago Tribune as one of the best books Two Memoirs (with Janet Coleman). An of the year, was a New York Times Editors' GREGORY SPATZ's most recent book pub- essay appears in the anthology Writers Choice, and won the Colby Award for the lications are Inukshuk, a novel (Bellevue Workshop in a Book. Young’s honors best work of military nonfiction by a first- Literary Press, 2012), and the forthcoming include Guggenheim, Fulbright and NEA time author. In 2009 he was awarded collection of short stories, Half As Happy Fellowships, the Library of Congress Award a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial (Engine Books, 2012). His short stories for Short Fiction, the PEN-USA Award for Foundation fellowship in nonfiction. have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Nonfiction, and the 2011 Thomas Wolfe The New England Review, Glimmer Train Prize for lifetime achievement. He is cur- MICHAEL PIETSCH is Executive Vice Stories, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. rently the visiting writer at California President and Publisher of Little, Brown and He is a 2012 NEA Fellow, and the recipient College of the Arts, San Francisco. Company. Before joining Little, Brown in of a Washington State Book Award. He www.alyoung.org 1991 he worked as an editor at Scribner and teaches in and directs the MFA program at Harmony Books. He has worked with the

-7- Writers Workshops Staff continued on Page 8 WORKSHOPS CONTINUED novelists Martin Amis, Michael Connelly, John Hough, Jr., Eduardo Santiago, Craig Tony Earley, Janet Fitch, Chad Harbach, LITERARY AGENTS Ferguson, Kathryn Jordan, Renee Swindle, Mark Leyner, Rick Moody, Walter Mosley, Laura Catherine Brown, and nonfiction James Patterson, George Pelecanos, Alice MICHAEL V. CARLISLE, a founder of InkWell writers J. Maarten Troost, James Donovan, Sebold, Anita Shreve, Nick Tosches, David Management, has been involved with the Tim Madigan, Chris Erskine, and Mel Foster Wallace, and Stephen Wright, the Community of Writers for many years. His Watkins. nonfiction writers Peter Guralnick, Stacy fiction and nonfiction client list includes Schiff, and David Sedaris, and the cartoon- prize-winning as well debut authors. A ist R. Crumb. Career highlights include former director of the AAR, a not-for-profit SPECIAL GUESTS editing Ernest Hemingway’s posthumous organization of independent literary and memoir, The Dangerous Summer , in 1985, dramatic agents, Michael is an active CHARMAINE CRAIG's first novel, The Good David Wallace's posthumous novel The member of PEN. Men, was a national bestseller. Her second Pale King in 2011, and the autobiogra - novel, nearing completion, is inspired by phies of Chuck Berry, Phil Lesh, and Keith MARY EVANS is a New York Literary Agent. the life of her mother, once Miss Burma Richards. Recent acquisitions include new Her first job in publishing was at Farrar, and leader of an insurgent army brigade. novels by Nick Tosches, Donna Tartt and Straus & Giroux and then The Viking Press. She is visiting faculty in Creative Writing at David James Duncan. For over thirty years she has been a literary the University of California, Riverside. agent who specializes in upmarket fiction www.charmainecraig.com ALAN RINZLER has edited and published and nonfiction. She has operated her own Toni Morrison, Hunter S. Thompson, literary agency, Mary Evans Inc., out of SUSAN GOLOMB founded the Susan Tom Robbins, Shirley MacLaine, Lorraine an East Village Greek Revival brownstone Golomb Literary Agency in 1990 and for Hansberry, Clive Cussler, Andy Warhol, since 1994. She is privileged to work with over twenty years has been known for Robert Ludlum, Jerzy Kosinski, Bob Dylan, such talents as Michael Chabon, Ayelet finding bestselling and award winning and others. He began at Simon and Schuster Waldman, Abraham Verghese and Vendela fiction and nonfiction. Her authors include in 1962, and then went to Macmillan and Vida (to name only a few). David Breashears, Sarah Shun–lien Bynum, Holt as Senior Editor. He was Director of Harry S. Dent Jr., Glen David Gold, Jonathan Trade Book Publishing at Bantam Books, JEFF KLEINMAN is a literary agent, intel - Franzen, Rachel Kushner, Krys Lee, Tom Associate Publisher and Vice President of lectual property attorney, and founding Mullen, Marisha Pessl, Tom Rachman, Gwyn Rolling Stone Magazine , and President of partner of Folio Literary Management, LLC, Hyman Rubio, Brando Skyhorse, William T. the Rolling Stone book division Straight a New York literary agency which works Vollmann. Prior to founding her agency, Arrow Books. He was West Coast Editor with all of the major U.S. publishers (and, Susan worked for Sydney Pollack’s film for the Grove Press, Editor of The Berkeley through subagents, with most internation- company, Mirage, Hearst Entertainment, Monthly, and for 19 years Executive Editor al publishers). His authors include Garth and PBS’ Great Performances . She is a of Jossey-Bass, the San Francisco imprint of Stein, Robert Hicks, Charles Shields, Bruce member of the Association of Authors’ John Wiley & Sons. Watson, Neil White, and Philip Gerard. Representatives, the Women's Media Group and PEN International. ANIKA STREITFELD is an independent edi - CHRIS PARRIS-LAMB is an agent at The tor specializing in fiction and narrative Gernert Company, where he started as RHODA HUFFEY is the author of the novel nonfiction. She has worked as an in-house an assistant in 2005. He began his career The Hallelujah Side. She has published sto- editor at Random House and MacAdam/ at Burnes & Clegg, Inc. He specializes in ries in Tin House, Ploughshares, and Green Cage. She has worked with the writers literary fiction and in a wide variety of Mountains Review, and has a story upcom- Audrey Niffenegger, Dan Chaon, and nonfiction. New York Times Bestselling ing in Santa Monica Review (Spring, 2012). Amanda Eyre Ward. writers on his list include the novelists Chad Harbach and Hillary Jordan, as well MICHELLE LATIOLAIS is a Professor of ANDREW TONKOVICH is the editor of the as Sports Illustrated 's Grant Wahl, the English at the University of California at Santa Monica Review . His short stories, game designer Jane McGonigal, and UNC Irvine. She is the author of the novel Even essays and commentaries have appeared Men's Basketball Coach Roy Williams. Now, which received the Gold Medal for in Green Mountains Review , The Rattling Other clients have appeared in The New Fiction from the Commonwealth Club. Her Wall, Faultline, OC Weekly, The Los Angeles Yorker, Harper's, The Paris Review, The New second novel, A Proper Knowledge , was Times and an anthology, Geography of Republic, GQ, Outside and n+1, among published in 2008 by Bellevue Literary Fear. He has taught at UC Irvine, UC Irvine many others. Press. She has published writing in three Extension, Santa Monica College, Irvine anthologies, Absolute Disaster, Women Valley College and University of Redlands. BJ ROBBINS opened her Los Angeles-based On The Edge: Writing From Los Angeles He hosts “Bibliocracy,” a weekly book literary agency in 1992 after a multifac - and Woof! Writers on Dogs . Her stories culture program on Pacifica Radio affili - eted book publishing career in New York and essays have appeared in Zyzzyva, ate KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles, which at Simon & Schuster and Harcourt. Her The Antioch Review , Western Humanities focuses on literary fiction, nonfiction and clients include award-winning novelists Review and the Santa Monica Review. Most poetry. bibliocracyradio.blogspot.com James D. Houston, Max Byrd, Nafisa Haji, recently she had work in issues of theIowa -8- Writers Workshops Staff continued on Page 9 WORKSHOPS CONTINUED Review and the Northwest Review. Widow, ALUMNI READING SERIES a collection of stories, involutions and ach summer, recently published alumni are invited to return to Squaw Valley to read from ( essays, was published in 2011 by Bellevue Etheir books and talk about their journey from unpublished writers to published authors. Literary Press. The Community of Writers is delighted to celebrate the success of these writers and to present them to the participants, staff, and the public. ALISON OWINGS is the author of Indian Recent alumni who have been part of this reading series include Anita Amirrezvani, David Voices: Listening to Native Americans Bajo, Aimee Bender, David Corbett, Charmaine Craig, Frances Dinkelspiel, Cai Emmons, Alex (Rutgers, 2011). Her other books include Espinoza, Joshua Ferris, Jamie Ford, Vicki, Forman, Tanya Egan Gibson, Glen David Gold, Judith Hey, Waitress! The USA from the Other Side Hendricks, Sara J. Henry, Rhoda Huffey, Michael Jaime-Becerra, Alma Katsu, Regina Louise, of the Tray and Frauen: German Women Michael David Lukas, Marisa Matarazzo, Christina Meldrum, Janis Cooke Newman, Jessica Recall the Third Reich, a New York Times O'Dwyer, Victoria Patterson, Frederick Reiken, Robin Romm, Elizabeth Rosner, Adrienne Sharp, Notable Book of the Year. Alison is also a Alice Sebold, Julia Flynn Siler, Jordan Fisher Smith, Ellen Sussman, Lisa Tucker, Brenda Rickman public speaker and freelance editor. www. Vantrease, Dora Calott Wang, M.D., Andrew Winer, and Alia Yunis among others. alisonowings.com

AMY TAN's novels are The Joy Luck Club, 2012 Alumni Readers The Kitchen God’s Wife, The Hundred Secret RAMONA AUSUBEL ('07) is the author of the Granta online, California Quarterly, Asia Senses, The Bonesetter’s Daughter, and novel No One is Here Except All of Us and Weekly, the Guardian, the New Statesman, Saving Fish from Drowning, all New York the collection of stories A Guide to Being and Condé Nast Traveller, UK (forthcom- Times bestsellers. She was co-writer and Born, both forthcoming from Riverhead ing). She lives in Seoul with intervals in San co-producer of the film The Joy Luck Club, Books. Her work has appeared in The New Francisco. www.kryslee.com and was the librettist for an opera based Yorker, One Story, Best American Fantasy on The Bonesetter's Daughter, which pre- and elsewhere. Her stories have received ISMET PRCIC ('07) is a Bosnian American miered in San Francisco in 2008. She has special mentions in the Best American writer who is the recipient of a 2010 National Endowment for the Arts Literature also published a memoir, The Opposite Short Stories, Best American Nonrequired Fellowship for fiction. His work has appeared of Fate; two children’s books, The Moon Reading and the Pushcart Prize Anthology. in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Bat Lady and Sagwa; and numerous articles She received her MFA from UC Irvine. for magazines including The New Yorker, www.ramonaausubel.com City Review, Wazee Literary Journal, Prague Harper’s Bazaar, and National Geographic. Literary Review and IdentityTheory.com. Tan's work has been widely anthologized HEATHER DONAHUE ('08): At 24, she Ismet is also a writer of dramatic works and translated into 35 languages. She also was one of the filmmakers of the Blair and has worked extensively as an actor and director both in the U.S. and abroad. He was serves on the Board of Directors of the Witch Project. Her memoir Growgirl: The a 2011 Sundance Screenwriting Lab fellow. Community of Writers. www.amytan.net Blossoming of an Unlikely Outlaw was His first novel, Shards -- which is nomi- recently published by Gotham/Penguin. nated for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel MIKE LEVINE has been an Acquisitions www.heatherdonahue.com Editor at Northwestern University Press Prize -- was published by Black Cat (Grove, Atlantic) in 2011. www.ismetprcic.com since 2007. Among the authors with whom SUSAN HENDERSON ('09) is a two-time he has worked are Kathleen Hill, A. E. Pushcart Prize nominee and the recipient SCOTT SPARLING ('86/'92) grew up in of an Academy of American Poets award. Stallings, Katherine Karlin, Michael Griffith, Michigan and now lives outside Portland, Her debut novel, Up From The Blue, was Horton Foote, and Mary Zimmerman. Oregon. Wire to Wire, his first novel, was published by HarperCollins in 2010 and has He teaches continuing-education litera- published by Tin House Books in 2011. He been selected by many print and online ture seminars at the Newberry Library in is a graduate of Antioch College. Since editors as a top pick of the year, including Chicago. 1997, he has written and maintained as a favorite reads feature on The Rosie Segerfile.com, one of the oldest and larg- O'Donnell Show. Now in its fourth printing, OSCAR VILLALON is the managing editor est music sites of its kind on the Internet. of ZYZZYVA and the former book editor Up From The Blue will soon be available www.scottsparling.net in Norwegian and Dutch. Susan blogs at at the San Francisco Chronicle. His reviews and essays have appeared in Black Clock, LitPark.com and The Nervous Breakdown. MARY VOLMER’s ('03/'04) first novel, Crown www.litpark.com The Los Angeles Times, VQR, LA Weekly, The of Dust, first by published HarperCollins Believer, and on NPR.org. He also serves as UK, was released in the US by Soho Press KRYS LEE ('10) is the author of Drifting House a book critic for KQED-FM's “The California in 2010. Her short story “Canyon” was a published by Viking/Penguin in February Report." www.zyzzyva.org o finalist for the 2010 Orlando Prize and fea- 2012. Viking/Penguin will also publish her tured on Sacramento’s “Stories on Stage.” novel-in-progress in 2013. She was born Her nonfiction has appeared in NPR’s in Seoul, South Korea, raised in California “This I Believe” series, Women’s Basketball and Washington. She was a finalist for Best COMMUNITY Magazine and Fullcourt Press. She was OFWRITERS New American Voices in 2006, received a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar to Wales a special mention in the 2012 Pushcart in 2001 and earned an MFA in Creative Prize XXXVI, and her work has appeared in Writing at Saint Mary’s College in 2005. o the Kenyon Review, Narrative magazine, SCREENWRITING JULY 7-14 he Screenwriting Program is an intensive week-long program which focuses on individual attention and work-in-progress, by our award-winning writers and writer/directors. Daily private sessions with a previously assigned mentor, will help you make the choices which will crystallize the story and Texcise extraneous elements. Film clips, lectures and writing exercises are incorporated into daily 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 $800, which includes 6 evening meals; financial aid is available for particular circumstances. Admissions are based on submissions. See Application Guidelines, page 13.

SCREENWRITING STAFF DAILY SCHEDULE (Production commitments will determine the availability of staff members and guests.) EUGENE CORR is a writer/director of films and Searchlight in Fall 2010, and voted Best Picture Morning workshops stress television whose credits include the Academy by the Boston Film Festival. It starred Hilary the language and grammar of Award-nominated Desert Bloom, Waldo Salt: Swank, who received a nomination for a SAG film. Topics include finding the A Screenwriter’s Journey, (co-written/directed award for best actress. She is currently writing story, character analysis, script with Robert Hillmann), Prefontaine for Disney a comedy feature for Paramount, and develop- development, narrative point Pictures, and Mike Hammer: Too Legit for ing a Broadway musical about the Woodstock of view, plotting, subplots and VH1, and The Joe Louis Story for Hallmark Festival. She is also a published poet. dialogue. In-class exercises and Entertainment. His television credits include group projects are assigned. Against the Law (Fox), Shannon’s Deal (NBC) PATRICIA K. MEYER is a screenwriter/produc- The afternoons are devoted and I’ll Fly Away (NBC). Currently he is produc- er who has written screenplays for Martin to individual conferences, ing a documentary feature, From Ghost Town Scorsese, Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions, which take precedence over to Havana, shot in Oakland, CA and Havana, as well as all the major studios and networks. all activities. Time permitting, with Roberto Chile as cinematographer and Her many producing credits include the ABC participant scenes can be read co-producer, in Havana. miniseries, The Women of Brewster Place, star- by professional actors, taped ring Oprah Winfrey, which earned an Emmy and critiqued. JACOB FORMAN is a screenwriter whose cred- nomination for Outstanding Miniseries. She its include All the Boys Love Mandy Lane which executive-produced Nora Ephron’s directo- Special screenings and dis- screened at the 2006 Toronto International rial debut motion picture, This Is My Life, and cussions in the late afternoons Film Festival and was acquired there by The numerous movies for television. Her com- and evenings are scheduled. Weinstein Company for worldwide distribu- edy, The Ex-Boy, will be in production in 2012. tion. Jacob currently has two features in devel- Packaging for her historically-based thriller, opment at Paramount Pictures, as well as Waikiki, is also in process. She is a Senior projects with Davis Entertainment, the Mark Lecturer in Screenwriting at American Film Gordon Company, Strike Entertainment and Institute. INDIVIDUAL CONFERENCES Paradox Entertainment. He has developed hour-long dramas for CBS Television and ABC CHRISTOPHER MONGER is a writer/director On arrival, each participant is Touchstone. He is a Lecturer in Screenwriting whose feature credits include The Englishman assigned a mentor who will and Conservatory Studies at the American Film Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down A already be familiar with the Institute. Mountain; Girl From Rio; Waiting for the script. The screenplay or rough Light; and Crime Pays. His television credits cut submitted is the one to PAMELA GRAY is a screenwriter whose credits as writer include Seeing Red, for which he be treated unless changed include Walk on the Moon (aka The Blouse received a Christopher Award, and Temple by a prearranged agreement. Man), which received a Golden Satellite nomi- Grandin for which he received the Humanitas Conferences take place during nation, Music of the Heart, and Dirty Dancing Prize and a Peabody. The film received 7 the afternoons. Rewrites and 2: Havana Nights. Variety named her one of Emmys and won both the Monte Carlo and revisions will be assigned. the “Ten Screenwriters to Watch.” She wrote Banff TV Festivals. Recently he has adapted the screenplay for Conviction, released by Fox Maggie O'Farrell's novel, The Vanishing Act

-10- Screenwriting Staff continued on Page 11 SCREENWRITING WORKSHOPS CONTINUED of Esme Lennox, for CrossDay Films; Liz She recently completed her adaptation Century Fox, Sony Pictures, Good Humor TV, & Dick, the story of Elizabeth Taylor and of Edie Meidav’s award-winning novel, Warner Brothers Television, ABC Television, Richard Burton for Lifetime; My Husband Crawl Space which is being considered for Lionsgate and HBO. He is currently devel- Rock Hudson for HBO; and is current- European production. Currently she is writ- oping a one-hour series with the producers ly completing his original pilot for NBC/ ing an American historical drama and a of Saved! for cable television and a feature Working Title, Madam Zena's Psychic Tea column on storytelling for SF360, the S.F. film, Hurry Home (co-written with Camille Room. Next he is scheduled to write four Film Society’s website. Thomasson). episodes for HBO about the young Teddy Roosevelt. He has also directed the docu- TOM SCHLESINGER is a screenwriter and mentaries Special Thanks To Roy London story consultant whose collaborations SPECIAL GUESTS WILL INCLUDE and A Sense Of Wonder. include Nowhere in Africa, with Caroline (Production commitments Link, which won the Academy Award in will determine availability.) JUDITH RASCOE’s screenwriting credits 2003 for Best Foreign Film, and Beyond include Eat a Bowl of Tea, Havana, Endless Silence, nominated for the Academy Award SARAH RYAN BLACK is a producer and Love, Who’ll Stop the Rain, the screen adap- in 1998. In 1996 he collaborated with writ- partner with Grand Illusions Productions tation of Robert Stone’s novel Dog Soldiers, er-director Doris Dorrie on Nobody Loves in Los Angeles. and Patricia Highsmith’s novel, Ripley Me, which won the German Film Prize, Underground. She was the story consultant and The Fisherman and His Wife. Tom is LINDA BLACKABY is an international on Roger Spottiswood's Shake Hands With currently co-producing the feature film, media arts programmer in the U.S. and the Devil, released in 2010, and for The Bang Playground with Robert Cort Productions abroad. She is a specialist in community Bang Club, a feature about young conflict in Los Angeles. He has just completed an engagement in the media arts, and has photographers in South Africa, released adaptation of Sergio Bambaren’s book, served as consultant to film festival, film- 2011. She is currently working with German Dolphin, Story of a Dreamer, for an ani- makers and other organizations. scriptwriter Jørn Precht on a feature about mated feature. Rochus Misch, the SS bodyguard who is the DEBBIE BRUBAKER is a producer with over last living witness to Adolph Hitler's death CAMILLE THOMASSON’s recent television 25 years of experience in motion picture in 1945. credits include Beyond The Blackboard, and video production. She lives and works with Emily VanCamp; When Love Is Not in San Francisco. TOM RICKMAN is a screenwriter/director Enough: The Lois Wilson Story, for which whose many credits include Coal Miner’s Wynona Ryder received a SAG nomination; VIVIAN KLEIMAN is Executive Producer, Daughter, for which he was nominated The Pictures of Hollis Woods, for which she Producer, Director, and writer at Vivian for an Academy Award; Everybody’s All- received a WGA Humanitas nomination Kleiman Productions. A Peabody Award- American; and The River Rat (which he and a Christopher Award in 2008; The Valley winning filmmaker, she has a distinctive also directed). His television credits include of Light, winner of the Templeton Prize in portfolio of creative video, and film pro- Truman, nominated for an Emmy Award; 2008; The Magic of Ordinary Days; and The duction specializing in documentary pro- Tuesdays With Morrie, for which he received Brooke Ellison Story, directed by the late ductions for diverse venues. both the Humanitas Award and the Writers Christopher Reeve, for which Thomasson Guild Award; and The Reagans, nominated received a 2004 Christopher Award. Her SCOTT ROSENFELT is an independent pro- for an Emmy. He adapted Front of the feature work includes Ave Maria, which ducer who founded I.E. Productions with Class from the book by the same name, for debuted in the Latin American Film Festival producer and writing partner, Billie Grief. Hallmark Hall of Fame, (2008). Currently he in 2000; and Luther, starring Joseph Fiennes, He is also a partner in Picture Play Films. has completed the Miles Davis story enti- which won the Golden Screen Award in tled, Miles and Me, for the producer Rudy Germany, 2004. The Hadleys, written for GEORGE RUSH is a fourth-generation San Langrich (Hotel Rwanda) and A Smile As Hallmark Hall of Fame, is slated for produc- Franciscan whose law practice special- Big As the Moon for Hallmark Hall of Fame, tion in 2012. She is currently producing the izes in the entertainment industry with which is scheduled to air in Spring 2012. independent feature, Hurry Home, written emphasis on the San Francisco Bay Area with Michael Urban. Film Community. LISA ROSENBERG is a screenwriter whose credits include independent features The MICHAEL URBAN is a screenwriter and GAIL SILVA is an advisor and curator for Riddle and Savage Dawn, the dramatic instructor at the American Film Institute. arts organizations, individual artists and short Friends, KCET’s The Oddest Couple His first feature film Saved! (co-written filmmakers, with nearly 30 years of service documentary series, the internet-based with Brian Dannelly) was produced by to the independent media field. political series Reinventing America and MGM/UA in 2004. He has since complet- the Emmy Award-winning public TV series, ed writing assignments for several major RON YERXA is a producer and partner of Psychology: The Study of Human Behavior. film and television studios including: 20th Bona Fide Productions in Los Angeles. o -11- FINANCIAL SUPPORT The Community of Writers gratefully acknowledges the financial support that makes its Summer Workshops & Scholarship Program and other activities possible.

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PATRONS Lucinda Watson Anonymous • Michael Carlisle • Amy Tan & Lou DeMattei • Lucinda Watson for her major contribution to the Community of Writers Many thanks to the 2011 Poetry Workshop Staff for their part in making the Benefit Poetry Reading a success. And special thanks to Moira Magneson who coordinated the event along with her band of volunteers: chief among them Shawn Pittard, Theresa McCourt and Molly Fisk. Thanks also to University of Georgia Press and W. W. Norton for donations of books. APPLICATION GUIDELINES here is no application form. Admission is based on submitted manuscript. Please indicate if you are applying to more than one program. To be considered, submissions must be mailed to the appropriate address below, and received by the deadline. If email address is included, applicants will receive a confirmation of receipt of the sub- Tmission. For answers to frequently asked questions visit www.squawvalleywriters/org/FAQS.htm. POETRY SCREENWRITING WRITERS WORKSHOPS o (Past Poetry participants: If you wish to o Past Writers Workshop participants: If you o Please submit 2 copies of your script. attend this year, contact us for information attended the last two years do not apply o Applicants should submit complete about the lottery procedure: (530)470-8440 this year. (I.e. attendance is allowed for 2 screenplays for narrative features or or [email protected]. ) out of every 3 years.) Once you have taken for documentaries a roughcut limited to o Send two complete copies of submission: 160 minutes or less plus a synopsis. a year off, you are welcome to apply again. 4 or 5 pages of recent poems, typed, o o Applications on-line will not be accepted. 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(See page 6) San Francisco, CA 94114 o Notification of acceptance by May 1. o If you have attended before, it is important o Notification of acceptance by May 10. to indicate the year, and name(s) of the staff members who worked with your ms. o Please indicate if applying in Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, or Memoir/Personal Narrative. If applying in more than one category, please send separate submissions. o Enclose a $30 reading fee, payable to SVCW-Writers Workshops. o Manuscripts will not be returned; they will be recycled instead. o Deadline for receipt of application/ submission: April 2, 2012 o Send submissions to: Brett Hall Jones S.V. Community of Writers - WW 16191 Indian Flat Rd. Nevada City, CA 95959 o Notification of acceptance by May 10. -13-