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AEGEAN ARTS CIRCLE JUNE 23RD - JUNE 28TH CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN ANDROS WITH WRITER NATALIE BAKOPOULOS More workshops will be held throughout 2010. Special guests and instructors for 2010 include poet/writer Adrianne Kalfopoulou and writer Elissa Raffa, among others.
Join us at the Andros Holiday Hotel for a 5 day writing workshop on the island of Andros Fiction- short stories or novels, Creative Non-fiction, Memoirs, Poetry All are Welcome! JUNE 23RD - JUNE 28TH CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN ANDROS WITH WRITER NATALIE BAKOPOULOS ******************************* Natalie Bakopoulos: Writing is a solitary process. Yet, as writers, we also need a community of readers, not only to provide support but also to help us gain perspective on our own work and develop the skills necessary to bring work to completion.
The writing workshop not only provides writers with an opportunity to receive feedback on their work, but also-and perhaps more importantly-trains writers to look closely and carefully at the choices other writers make. In this workshop, by discussing and closely examining elements of craft, we will examine the choices a writer faces at each stage of the drafting process. I hope both to focus on participants' work-in-progress and to offer short exercises and prompts that will help the participants generate new work. I hope, at the end of the workshop, participants will not only leave with careful, thoughtful feedback on their own work but will also have gained some new approaches to and insights about the writing process. BIO FOR NATALIE BAKOPOULOS : Natalie Bakopoulos received her MFA in Fiction from the University of Michigan, where she now teaches. She is completing her first novel, set In Athens, Greece, during the military dictatorship of 1967-1974. A portion Of this novel-in-progress won an Avery and Jule Hopwood Award and a Platsis Prize for Work on the Greek Legacy, both administered through the University of Michigan. Her short fiction has recently appeared in Ninth Letter and Tin House and has twice been a finalist in Glimmer Train's Short Story Award For New Writers. She is a regular contributor to Fiction Writers Review (www.fictionwritersreview.com) ******************************* ELISSA RAFFA: SEPT/OCT. CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP Aegean Arts Circle Workshop Leader (dates to be announced) Change, Develop, Transform: Improvisation for Prose Writers Prose writers make hundreds of choices each day: between scene and summary; observation and invention; image and sound; this word and that.
BIO FOR ELISSA RAFFA: Elissa Raffa holds an MFA in Creative and Professional Writing from the University of Minnesota, and has taught writing and theater arts to Young people and adults for many years. Her short stories, essays, and poems have appeared in several anthologies and literary magazines in the U.S., and her writing for the theater produced on several U.S. stages including the Walker Art Center. Her first novel, Freeing Vera, was published by the Permanent Press of Sag Harbor, New York in 2005. As a work-in-progress, Freeing Vera won fellowships from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Astraea Foundation, the University of Minnesota, Hedgebrook, and the Puffin Foundation. Ms. Raffa is also a high school chemistry teacher and Dean of Academic Programming at Minnesota Online High School. She lives most of each year in Greece and the remainder in the Twin Cities. She is currently working on Speech Acts, a new novel.
******************************* ADRIANNE KALFOPOULOU POET/WRITER Aegean Arts Circle Workshop Special Guest Adrianne Kalfopoulou is the author of two books of poetry, Wild Greens (2002) and Passion Maps (2009), from Red Hen Press. She is also the author of a memoir, Broken Greek and two poetry chapbooks, Fig and Cumulus. Her work has appeared in various journals including Prairie Schooner, Hotel Amerika, and the Spoon River Poetry Review, and won the 2009 creative non-fiction prize from ROOM magazine for her essay "April, the Cruelest". Currently she lives in Athens, and teaches at Hellenic American University.
The 5 star hotel, MICRA ANGLIA , in Hora the capitol city of Andros is an alternate location for some of our Workshops or Retreats
For more information please contact: info@aegeanartscircle.com, or (011 30) 6977 464 754.
WORKSHOP SPACES ARE LIMITED.
******************************* Additional workshops planned for Summer 2010 Check back for updates or email us at: info@aegeanartscircle.com
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