Writers Workshop
11am – 3 pm
Workshop Fee: $65

ritual word art workshop
featuring fiction writer, poet & educator
ANYA ACHTENBERG

Real People: Strengthening Characterization in Fiction & Memoir. How do
writers
gather together the inspiration, the courage, the imaginative power, the
craft
and the grounded knowledge of the world to walk truthfully beside their
characters and tell their stories, share their discoveries? Good writing
probes
the mysteries of human behavior and motivation. Each of us is unique, formed
out
of an endless range of factors: culture, history, economics, region, race,
family, experience, happenstance and mystery do not complete the list. Our
characters deserve no less specificity, no less fullness. Through a series
of
diverse readings and focused writing explorations, we will work to deepen
our
ability to bring the power of developed and authentic beings into our
writing,
and to begin to extend our range to include characters we may dislike or
fear,
characters that puzzle or fascinate us, as well as those with whom we
identify.

Anya Achtenberg’s fiction & poetry have been published in numerous magazines
&
journals, including American Poetry Review, Madison Review, Southern Poetry
Review, & Harvard Review. Her work has won literary prizes from Another
Chicago
Magazine, New Letters, the Asheville Fiction Writers Workshop, the Raymond
Carver Short Story Contest, & others. Her first book of poetry, I Know What
the
Small Girl Knew, was published by Holy Cow! Press. &, The Stone of Language,
finalist in five poetry competitions, is forthcoming from West End Press.
Achtenberg has completed work on Cold Ground, a collection of short stories,
&
is working on her first novel, More Than the Wind.

Workshop fee — $65
A limited number of partial scholarships are available for those who
qualify.

For more information:

Regie O’Hare Gibson — o.gibson2@verizon.net (617) 484-1899
Indigo Moor — IndigoMoor@attbi.com (617) 576-4715