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Writing It Real in Port Townsend
       
Website http://www.writingitreal.com
Year Established 1999
Program Description Lectures, writing instruction, manuscript workshops, writing & publishing consultations, sightseeing.
Number of Programs/Year ~2
Program Length 3 days
Group Size or S:T Ratio 25
Program Focus Autobiography/Memoir, Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Publishing
Faculty Author & poet Sheila Bender, publisher of WritingItReal.com; author & poet Meg Files, creative writing teacher; Jack Heffron, editorial director of Clerisy Press.
Costs Conference tuition $375, $300-$350 early-bird discount
U.S. Locations Washington (Port Towsend)
Wisconsin (Madison)
Months April, October
Sponsor's Calendar Link http://www.writingitreal.com/page.php?p=writers_conference
Contact Sheila Bender
Writing It Real in Port Townsend
Port Townsend, WA 98368
United States
Phone: 360-385-7839
E-Mail:
http://www.writingitreal.com

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Fifth House Lodge Retreat
Fifth House Lodge Retreat
At Maine's Fifth House Lodge expressive writing teacher Joan Lee Hunter offers personalized writing retreats for individuals, group writing workshops and related programs throughout the year.

Travel Writing Workshop
Travel Writing Workshop
Two-day travel writing seminar in New York’s scenic Upper Hudson Valley with Frommers columnist and contributing editor Bob Fisher. June 19-20, 2010. Hudson, NY.

Wesleyan Writers Conference
Wesleyan Writers Conference
54th year - For new writers, established writers, and everyone interested in the writer's craft. Includes seminars, informal workshops, manuscript consultations with faculty, writing time.

Irv Bauer Screenwriting in Spoleto, Italy
Irv Bauer Screenwriting in Spoleto, Italy
Emphasis on craft and process of writing for film. Complete a short screenplay. Small groups, all levels. Summer intensive in NY, and in Spoleto, Italy.

UNF Writers Conference
UNF Writers Conference
Join us for the 2010 UNF Writers Conference at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, August 6-8, 2010. Let your creative spirit soar.

Split Rock Arts Program - University of Minnesota
Split Rock Arts Program - University of Minnesota
Three-day and weeklong workshops and retreats in autobiography, poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, memoir, screenwriting, writing for children; book arts, calligraphy, and picture book illustration.

Lost Art of Personal Writing
Lost Art of Personal Writing
Write for enjoyment, to communicate, or to publish -- it all begins with personal writing. Carondelet Center, St. Paul, Minnesota • 6/25-27/2010.

Writing/Wellness Retreat in Italy
Writing/Wellness Retreat in Italy
Master an empowering routine during this two-week writing, painting, fitness and goal-setting retreat at Casa della Pace, in Italy's Umbria region. 6/13-26/2010.

Sewanee Writers' Conference & Young Writers' Conference
Sewanee Writers' Conference & Young Writers' Conference
The Sewanee Writers' Conference offers a twelve-day opportunity to work with and learn from some of America's best fiction writers, poets, and playwrights. Join us 7/13-25/2010. Sewanee, Tennessee.

Wildacres Writers Workshop
Wildacres Writers Workshop
Week-long residential workshop with top faculty on a mountain top in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains. Beautiful rooms, delicious meals, nighttime programs, manuscript critique. 7/10-17/2010.

Laura Deutsch Writing Retreat in Italy
Laura Deutsch Writing Retreat in Italy
Join us for a week of writing and traveling in Tuscany, Italy. Morning classes, individual feedback, afternoon excursions, writing time. 9/24-10/1/2010

Anhinga Writers' Studio
Anhinga Writers' Studio
Join us in the heart of natural Florida and let your writing soar! Anhinga Writers' Studio Summer Workshops • July 28-31, 2010 • Gainesville

Abroad Writers Conference--Authors without Borders
Abroad Writers Conference--Authors without Borders
Experience the world while you write. Networking opportunities await you while attend lectures, readings and workshops with award-winning authors and agents. Worldwide locations.

ClarityWorks Writing Retreats and Writers Workshops
ClarityWorks Writing Retreats and Writers Workshops
Write on the beach near Charleston SC, spring 2010. Fearless Writing Retreat at Seabrook. Write in a supportive, women-only circle, April 18-25. Peggy Millin facilitates. 828/298-3863.

Indiana University Writers' Conference
Indiana University Writers' Conference
IUWC’s stimulating one-week learning vacation offers poetry, fiction and nonfiction workshops, classes, panel discussions, talks, faculty readings, and social events. June 6-11, 2010 • Bloomington, Indiana.

Curious Excursions
Curious Excursions
Enjoy Amsterdam as a creative explorer. Daily workshops unlock your creative juju in a unique and memorable way. June 13-19, 2010

Grub Street's The Muse & The Marketplace Conference
Grub Street's The Muse & The Marketplace Conference
Two days of curated seminars led by prominent authors; individual agent/editor consultations; panels/networking with industry professionals; breakfast, lunch, keynote Chuck Palahniuk. 5/1-5/2/2010 • Boston, Massachusetts

Manhattanville Summer Writers' Week
Manhattanville Summer Writers' Week
Annual Writers' Week in June features workshops with well-known published authors. On Manhattanville College's beautiful suburban campus, 30 minutes from New York City. 6/28/10-7/2/10

Colgate Writers’ Conference
Colgate Writers’ Conference
The Colgate Writers' Conference offers daily workshops of ten or fewer participants, personal consultations, craft talks, panel discussions, readings, and informal conversations. June 20-26, 2010

PNWA Summer Writers Conference
PNWA Summer Writers Conference
Annual conference featuring concurrent sessions led by industry experts and devoted to many aspects of writing/publishing; agent/editor appointments. 7/22-25, 2010 • Seattle Airport Hilton Conference Center.

Write on the Sound Writers' Conference and Pre-Conference
Write on the Sound Writers' Conference and Pre-Conference
Limited to 200 attendees, the conference provides a wide variety of workshop sessions and the opportunity to network with aspiring and published authors.

Jackson Hole Writers Conference
Jackson Hole Writers Conference
It's inspiring. Fellow writers, editors, agents - revel in the art and craft of writing with critiques, workshops, and Grand Teton National Park to set the scene. Get plotting and poetic for the 2010 conference. June 24-27, 2010.

The Frost Place Poetry Conferences
The Frost Place Poetry Conferences
2010 Programs: 11th Annual Conference on Poetry and Teaching 6/27-7/1; 31st Annual Festival and Conference on Poetry 7/8-14; 12th Annual Advanced Seminar 8/8-13. Franconia, NH.

Orange County Christian Writers Conference
Orange County Christian Writers Conference
Get inspired, instructed, and in touch with your inner writer. 20+ sessions, 3-part fiction and non-fiction workshops, 3 keynoters, private consultations. 5/1/2010 • Irvine, California

National Workshops For Enhancing Your Writing Skills
National Workshops For Enhancing Your Writing Skills
Nationwide and year-round workshops for writing your autobiography, enhancing your writing, spurring creativity and overcoming writers' block. Endorsed by Judy Collins and Donald Spoto.

Pennwriters Conference
Pennwriters Conference
Pitch agents and editors at Pennwriters 23rd Annual Writers Conference. 30-plus workshops, pre-conference seminars, special guest speaker James Rollins. May 14-16, 2010 • Lancaster, PA.

Antioch Writers' Workshop
Antioch Writers' Workshop
Antioch Writers' Workshop, July 10-16, 2010. Fiction, creative nonfiction, memoir, poetry. Accessible faculty, intensive seminars, manuscript critiques, agent meetings. Come join our community of writers.

Bear River Writers' Conference
Bear River Writers' Conference
Defined by its unique geography, situated at the intersection of the natural and creative worlds, populated by an eclectic collection of writers of all levels.

New York Writers Workshop: Pitch Conferences & Workshops
New York Writers Workshop: Pitch Conferences & Workshops
Three-day conferences for writers who pitch their book proposals to editors from major New York publishing houses. February 12-14 and April 9-11, 2010 • New York, NY.

The Writers Studio
The Writers Studio
Benefit from a method developed by Pulitzer Prize winner, Philip Schultz. NYC, San Francisco, Tucson, Online. Alumni: Jennifer Egan, Martha McPhee, Lesley Dormen. Tutorials available.

Free Expressions Seminars
Free Expressions Seminars
Unparalleled instruction, feedback, and inspiration from industry professionals. Our simple goal: to help you achieve artistic and commercial success—now and for your entire writing career.

Unicorn Writers' Conference
Unicorn Writers' Conference
Network with agents, get MS feedback from industry shot-callers and hone your craft. Plus, get practical tutorials from publishing executives on acing book proposals.

Mendocino Coast Writers Conference
Mendocino Coast Writers Conference
3-day annual conference features all-day small group genre intensives, lectures, readings, one-on-one consultations, editor/agent/publisher chat rooms. 7/29-8/1/2010. Fort Bragg, California (10 miles north of Mendocino).

Nightwriters
Nightwriters
Spend five days (October 3-8, 2010) at Bishop's Ranch in Healdsburg, California in Phyllis Theroux's journal writing seminar. Writer's cottage also offered in Virginia - customized schedule.

Tin House Summer Writers Workshop
Tin House Summer Writers Workshop
One-week writing intensive featuring workshops, readings, seminars, panels, mentorships. Prestigious faculty of writers of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Reed College, Portland.

Iowa Summer Writing Festival
Iowa Summer Writing Festival
An opportunity for you to share your work in a community that wishes it well. 140 short-term workshops across the genres for writers of all levels.

The International Artists' and Writers' Workshops in Ghana
The International Artists' and Writers' Workshops in Ghana
Writing workshops, cultural excursions, culinary discoveries, social events, participant readings, urban bustle in the capital city, followed by coastal village beach retreat.

Starwae Workshops
Starwae Workshops
Charming Starwae in California's Sonoma Valley offers weekend workshops in a garden setting that focus on getting your work completed and published.

San Francisco Writers Conference
San Francisco Writers Conference
Cross the bridge from 'writer' to 'author' in 2010! Jacquelyn Mitchard, Steve Berry and Susan Wiggs join the faculty of top authors, agents and editors.

Southampton Writers Conference
Southampton Writers Conference
Stony Brook Southampton's MFA program in Writing and Literature proudly sponsors the acclaimed Southampton Writers Conference, Southampton Playwriting Conference, Southampton Children's Literature Conference, and Southampton Screenwriting Conference.

Anam Cara Writer's and Artist's Retreat
Anam Cara Writer's and Artist's Retreat
One-week workshops at Anam Cara residential retreat feature morning group sessions, afternoon individual conferences and creative time, and evening resident read-arounds, exhibitions, and/or entertainments.

Paris Writers Workshop
Paris Writers Workshop
WICE's internationally renowned summer writers' conference. Writers fine-tune their work under the guidance of distinguished authors with hard practical experience of the craft. 6/27-7/2,2010.

Odyssey: The Summer Fantasy Writing Workshop
Odyssey: The Summer Fantasy Writing Workshop
Six-week summer workshop for serious writers of fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Prestigious faculty of award-winning authors. 6/7-7/16/2010 • Saint Anselm College, Manchester, NH.

Writers Studio at UCLA Extension
Writers Studio at UCLA Extension
Participate in the four-day intensive Writers Studio and attend in-class and online courses at the most comprehensive writing program in the United States.

Southern California Writers' Conference San Diego
Southern California Writers' Conference San Diego
Devoted to writers of all levels, the SCWC has facilitated nearly $4 million in first-time authors’ book and screen deals over the past 24 years. Sept. 24-26, 2010.

American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) Annual Writers Conference
American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) Annual Writers Conference
The Best Working Weekend for Independent Writers. Improve your career in books, articles, Web content, social media, corporate projects and more. New York City, April 23-25, 2010.

Algonkian Writer Conferences and New York Pitch Conference
Algonkian Writer Conferences and New York Pitch Conference
Will your first novel ever be published? Place yourself in the upper .001 who have an actual chance of becoming commercial or literary authors.

Write From the Heart Seminars & Coaching
Write From the Heart Seminars & Coaching
Work with bestselling author, editor, writing coach and publishing expert. Seminars, online workshops, individual coaching for fiction and nonfiction. Positive, creative, informative and supportive.

The New School Summer Writers Colony
The New School Summer Writers Colony
Participate in workshops and literary salons with renowned New School faculty members, visit legendary literary venues, and meet authors, editors, and agents. 6/7-24/2010 • New York, NY.

Gotham Writers' Workshop - WritingClasses.com
Gotham Writers' Workshop - WritingClasses.com
New York professional writers' leading creative writing school offers comprehensive workshops online and in NYC in over a dozen writing genres. "Best of Web" – Forbes

Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference
Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference
Bring your completed manuscript or manuscript-in-process to the decision-makers. The first poetry conference realistically designed to set poets on a path towards book publication.

Squaw Valley Community of Writers
Squaw Valley Community of Writers
The Community of Writers at Squaw Valley brings together poets and prose writers for a week of workshops, individual conferences, panels, and talks on craft.

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