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Friday, March 5 – Sunday, March 7, 2010 Howard University, Washington, DC
If you want to work with a master teacher who has been where you are and knows first hand the challenges you face, this workshop is for you! Each class is instructed by a professional who not only knows about writing, but how to teach writing. Whether published or unpublished you will be provided with peer review, instructor feedback, and a community of writers in which to share ideas and solutions.
Join us at the 3-Day and get a fresh set of unbiased opinions, analytical questions, suggestions, and key insights that you may not receive elsewhere. We will provide you with fast feedback that can help you increase your chances of producing a winning manuscript.
Your workshop leader will use his or her hard-earned knowledge to instruct, guide and gently lead you to develop the story you want to tell. Most importantly your instructor and peers will draw out of you what you already have in your heart, but have not given yourself permission to explore, until now.
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- Friday, March 5 classes meet from 10:00AM – 3:30PM
- Saturday, March 6 classes meet from 10:00AM – 3:30PM
- Sunday, March 7 classes meet from 11:00AM – 2:00PM
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The selection process for the Hurston/Wright 3-Day Writers' Workshop is competitive. In order to provide the highest quality instruction possible, class sizes are kept small. Therefore, we cannot accommodate ALL qualified writers.
HOW TO APPLY
- Email your writing sample along with a cover page to info@hurstonwright.org . Cover page should include:
- Your first and last name
- Address
- Phone Number (day and evening)
- Email Address
- Name of workshop you are applying for
- You may apply to only one workshop.
- Submissions must be received by February 5, 2010. Submissions received after February 5 will be considered only if space is
still available.
- Include with your submission a $15 nonrefundable submission fee
Letters of notification will be emailed to you by February 8.
All manuscripts must be double spaced in 12 pt. font.
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Requirements |
Nonfiction |
Up to 25 pages of a nonfiction essay, history, social commentary, or biographical narrative |
Poetry |
5-10 poems, not to exceed 20 pages |
Building the Novel (Fiction) |
Up to 25 pages of a fiction narrative |
Howard University will be the host site for Hurston/Wright 3-Day Writers’ Workshop. The university is located in Northwest, Washington, D.C. There are numerous monuments and museums, free concerts, and international dining, as well as many important African American cultural institutions close.
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Tuition: $389
3-Day Writers’ Workshop Alumni Tuition: $359 (upon acceptance alumni will be sent an invoice via PayPal)
The full amount of the fees due must be paid by February 19, 2010.
Cancellation Policy: Tuition payments are non-refundable. If an applicant is unable to attend the workshop, a course credit will be issued to be used towards a future workshop.
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- Michele Andrea Bowen: Second Sunday and Church Folk, Walk Worthy Press
- Carol Parrott Blue: The Dawn at My Back, University of Texas Press
- Anita Doreen Diggs: The Other Side of the Game, Dafina Books; A Mighty Love and A Meeting in the Ladies Room, Kensington Books
- Patricia Elam: Breathing Room, Simon and Schuster
- Dwight Fryer: E. Landon Hobgood: Songs of the Zodiac: In Doo-Wop America, Harlem Writers Guild
- E. Landon Hobgood: Songs of the Zodiac: In Doo-Wop America, Harlem Writers Guild
- A. Van Jordan: Macnolia, W.W. Norton & Company; Rise, Tia Church Press/The Guild
- Crystal E. Wilkinson: Water Streetand Blackberry, Blackberry, Toby Press
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Nonfiction
This workshop focuses on memoir, biography and family stories with an emphasis on research, oral history, story arc, vivid
description and creating historical context. We also will discuss book proposals and book publicity and promotion.
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Workshop Leader A’Lelia Bundles’ On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker, a biography of her great-great-grandmother, was named a 2001 New York Times Notable Book and received a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. A former executive and producer with ABC News, she is at work on Joy Goddess, the first major biography of her great-grandmother, A’Lelia Walker, a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance. |
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Poetry
This workshop will focus on poetic structure as cinematic movement and will approach the poem as a visual art form. We will discussions will include the metric, rhythmic, and tonal architecture of the poem as it relates to the movement of imagery within the poem, which will establish a working vocabulary to discuss the poetry of the participants in the workshop. The sessions will be split between discussions of the participant's work and discussions of poetic structure.
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Workshop Leader A. Van Jordan is the author of Rise, published in 2001, which won the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award. His second book, M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A, published in 2004, was awarded an Anisfield-Wolf Award. Jordan was also awarded a Whiting Writers’ Award in 2004 and a Pushcart Prize in 2006, 30th Edition. Quantum Lyrics was published July 2007. He is a recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 2007, and a United States Artist Williams Fellowship, 2008. He is a Professor in the Dept. of English at the University of Michigan.
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Building the Novel (Fiction)
A workshop designed for writers who have completed 75-100 pages of a novel, and who are familiar with the technical aspects of fiction writing. The course will be conducted as a workshop with in-depth critique and analysis of a selected portion of the manuscript, as well as discussion of the broader issues and challenges inherent in writing book-length fiction.
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Workshop Leader Mat Johnson
is the author of Incognegro, The Great Negro Plot, Hunting in Harlem, and Drop. He has also written for a variety of publications, including a stint as a columnist for Time Out-NY. He won the 2004 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Fiction. Mat Johnson received his MFA from Columbia University and currently teaches at the University of Houston’s Creative Writing Program. |
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- What does the workshop cost?
Tuition $389
Alumni Tuition: $359
- Where is the workshop going to be held?
Howard University, Washington, D.C.
- How many people are in each course?
Up to 12 students.
- How many pages of my work am I supposed to submit?
Requirements for manuscripts are controlled by the genre in which you are applying. See Manuscript Requirements.
- When is the submission deadline?
February 5, 2010
- What is the registration fee?
$15, paid via PayPal.
- When is full tuition due?
The full amount of the fees due must be paid by February 19, 2010.
- When will I be notified of the status of my application?
Letters of notifications will be emailed to you by February 8
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