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William Joiner Center Writers' Workshop
       
Website http://www.joinercenter.umb.edu
Year Established 1983
Program Description Writing workshop that includes classes, individual consultations with faculty, readings, seminars & panel discussions. The Center encourages teaching & scholarship on the Vietnam War and social consequences.
Number of Programs/Year 1
Program Length 1 or 2 weeks
Group Size or S:T Ratio 8-14:1
Program Focus Autobiography/Memoir, Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Publishing, Travel
Faculty 2008: Includes Brian Turner, Larry Heinemann, Sam Hamill, Demetria Martínez, Bruce Weigl, Martha Collins, Lady Borton Ho Ch, Doug Anderson, Fred Marchant
Costs $220/1 week, $400/2 weeks.
Months June
Sponsor's Calendar Link http://www.joinercenter.umb.edu/schedule.html
Contact T. Michael Sullivan
Workshop Coordinator
Joiner Center/UMass Boston
100 Morrissey Blvd
Boston, MA 02125
United States
Phone: 617-287-5850
Fax: 617-287-5855
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Progoff Intensive Journal Program
Progoff Intensive Journal Program
Nationwide and year-round writing workshops for self-development. A powerful technique to spur creativity and overcome writers' block, endorsed by Judy Collins and Donald Spoto.

Antioch Writers' Workshop
Antioch Writers' Workshop
Antioch Writers' Workshop, July 12-18, 2008. Fiction, narrative nonfiction, memoir, poetry, mystery. Accessible faculty, intensive seminars, manuscript critiques, agent meetings. Come join our community of writers.

Mendocino Coast Writers Conference
Mendocino Coast Writers Conference
3 plus day annual conference features all-day small group genre intensives, lectures and readings by presenters, one-on-one consultations, editor/agent/publisher chat rooms. July 31-August 3, 2008. Fort Bragg, California.

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 2008 • Bloomington, Indiana.

Aspen Summer Words Writing Retreat & Literary Festival
Aspen Summer Words Writing Retreat & Literary Festival
Aspen Summer Words Writing Retreat & Literary Festival, a five-day celebration of words, stories and ideas. June 22 to 27, 2008 • Aspen, Colorado

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. 6/22-28/2008

Jackson Hole Writers Conference
Jackson Hole Writers Conference
Get inspired, get critiqued, get connected: at the 2008 conference in the Tetons with Elizabeth George, Gail Tsukiyama, Jane Hamilton, Bob Mayer, Kyle Mills. 6/26-29/2008.

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. 7/5-12/2008.

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

Columbus Writers Conference
Columbus Writers Conference
August 24-25, 2007. An exciting range of topics (40+) presented by writers, editors, literary agents; one-to-one consultations; and more.

South Carolina Writers Workshop Conference
South Carolina Writers Workshop Conference
The Method, the Market & the Muse - The 2008 SCWW Conference offers something for everyone, from beginning writers to published authors! 10/24-26/2008 • Myrtle Beach, SC.

Manhattanville Summer Writers' Week
Manhattanville Summer Writers' Week
Annual Writer's Week in June features workshops with well-known published authors. 2008 is the 25th Anniversary year! On Manhattanville College's beautiful suburban campus, 30 minutes from New York City. 6/23-27/2008

Pikes Peak Writers Conference
Pikes Peak Writers Conference
April 25-27, 2008: Join the three-day, jam-packed expedition into the world of fiction writing at PPWC. Includes workshops, interviews with agents/editors, meals, and manuscript consultations.

Whidbey Island Writers Conference
Whidbey Island Writers Conference
Feast on the years of experience offered by presenters specifically selected for their talent, passion for writing, and desire to share their gifts with you.

Writing Programs: Univ. of WI-Madison Continuing Studies
Writing Programs: Univ. of WI-Madison Continuing Studies
Your writing takes center stage in Madison, Wisconsin, with an award-winning spring conference, a June retreat, online workshops, and critique services.

Wesleyan Writers Conference
Wesleyan Writers Conference
52nd year - For new writers, established writers, and everyone interested in the writer's craft. Includes seminars, informal workshops, manuscript consultations with faculty, writing time.

Iowa Summer Writing Festival
Iowa Summer Writing Festival
An opportunity for you to share your work in a community that wishes it well. 130 short-term workshops across the genres for writers of all levels.

The Writers Studio
The Writers Studio
Students publish and win awards. Classes Online, in NYC and Tucson. Alumni include Jennifer Egan, Walter Mosely, Martha McPhee, Lesley Dormen. Tutorials available.

Split Rock Arts Program - University of Minnesota
Split Rock Arts Program - University of Minnesota
The Split Rock Arts Program is a summer series of three-day and weeklong workshops in creative writing, visual art, and design. June 15-August 1, 2008.

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. 7/1-11/2008.

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.

Writers Retreat Workshop (WRW)
Writers Retreat Workshop (WRW)
Internationally acclaimed Writers Retreat Workshop, selected by USA Weekend as a learning "vacation that can change your life". Described as a "writers boot-camp." Limited Registrations.

Santa Barbara Writers Conference
Santa Barbara Writers Conference
30 different craft-based workshops with top authors and agents, speakers, panels, late-night critique sessions, receptions and closing dinner, opportunities to pitch your projects. June 21-26, 2008. This year our Poetry Conference, March 28-30, 2008, welcomes Philip Levine.

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.

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 working writers. Join us 7/15-27/2008. Sewanee, Tennessee.

Nightwriters in California
Nightwriters in California
Five days of relaxing but intensive writing at the legendary Bishop's Ranch, amid vineyards of Healdsburg, in Sonoma wine country north of San Francisco .

Creative Writing in Oaxaca, Mexico
Creative Writing in Oaxaca, Mexico
Donna Hanelin, poet and writer, teaches a Course on Story Writing, fictional and autobiographical and/or Writers' Retreat with private consultation. Oaxaca, Mexico • July 12-26, 2008

Robert Vaughan's Write on the Beach Writers' Retreat
Robert Vaughan's Write on the Beach Writers' Retreat
Week-long workshops, limited to three published and pre-published authors, with award-winning author Robert Vaughan at his beachside home. October, January-March. Gulf Shores, Alabama.

Creativity Workshop: Creative Writing, Drawing, Storytelling and Memoir
Creativity Workshop: Creative Writing, Drawing, Storytelling and Memoir
A workshop for writers, teachers, artists, and performers to explore the processes of their creative expression and to develop and share work-in-progress.

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.

Fifth House Lodge Retreat
Fifth House Lodge Retreat
Fifth House Lodge in Maine is a writers' retreat offering personalized writing retreats for individuals, group writing workshops and other programs of interest to writers.

Write From the Heart Seminars & Coaching
Write From the Heart Seminars & Coaching
Works In Progress: Completing Your Book for Publication. With leading writing coach and author of 30-plus books. Positive, informative, and supportive.

Algonkian Writer Conferences and NYC Pitch and Shop
Algonkian Writer Conferences and NYC Pitch and Shop
A single best way to craft the novel? Pitch it? Become published? Yes. Algonkian and NYC Pitch and Shop provide finest faculty and method.

WordHarvest Writers Workshops & Tony Hillerman Writers Conference
WordHarvest Writers Workshops & Tony Hillerman Writers Conference
Learn to write dialog, add excitement to action scenes, avoid genre cliches, plot your way to success and capture an agent's attention. 11/5-9/2008. Albuquerque, N.M.

Writing the Breakout Novel and High Tension Workshop
Writing the Breakout Novel and High Tension Workshop
Two workshops. One Goal. Your best writing year ever. Writing the Breakout Novel and The High Tension Workshop with New York Literary Agent, Donald Maass.

New York Writers Workshop Non-fiction Pitch Conference
New York Writers Workshop Non-fiction Pitch Conference
Three-day conference for non-fiction writers who pitch their book proposals to three different editors from major New York publishing houses. October 10-12, 2008 • New York, NY.

Aegean Arts Circle Creative Writing Workshops
Aegean Arts Circle Creative Writing Workshops
Summer writing workshops of the Cycladic Island of Andros. 6/23-29/2008 • Award-winning fiction writer Paul Johnston. 7/7-14/2008 • Creative Writing with with award-winning fiction writer Connie May Fowler.

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.

San Francisco Writers Conference
San Francisco Writers Conference
Clive Cussler, Tess Gerritsen, April Sinclair and nearly 100 other presenters. Choose from 50+ sessions. Serious about your writing career? Join us in February 2008!

Yosemite Writers Conference
Yosemite Writers Conference
Learn-Connect-Sell. Writer-friendly, highly rated conference features top editors, agents and magazine and book publishing professionals at one of the world's most beautiful settings.

ClarityWorks Writing Retreats and Writers Workshops
ClarityWorks Writing Retreats and Writers Workshops
Begin summer with fearless writing in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Asheville! June 19-22,Lake Logan, NC. Get away and write with a supportive circle of women for an extended weekend. Peggy Millin facilitates. 828/298-3863.

Patchwork Farm Retreat
Patchwork Farm Retreat
1- to 8-day writing retreats taught by Patricia Lee Lewis, based on the Amherst Writers & Artists method. Massachusetts, Texas, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Ireland, Scotland, Mexico, Wales.

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. 2008: Provence/Cote d'Azur, France and Chiang Mai, Thailand.

San Miguel de Allende Writers' Workshops
San Miguel de Allende Writers' Workshops
Come to the exquisite city of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico for inspiring writing workshops with distinguished instructors. Next program, August 11-15, 2008.

Writing It Real in Port Townsend
Writing It Real in Port Townsend
Receive hands-on, professional guidance in writing and publishing creative non-fiction, fiction and poetry in inspiring, historic, seaport setting. 6/26-30/2008 • Harborside Inn, Port Townsend, Washington.

Backspace Writers Conference
Backspace Writers Conference
2008 Backspace Writers Conference, August 7 & 8, Radisson Martinique, NYC. Two days of panels, workshops, and networking in the heart of the publishing world.

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. 6/2-20/2008 • New York, NY.

Prague Summer Program
Prague Summer Program
Study with some of the finest writers, poets and playwrights from America and Central Europe. Small group workshops for writers of all levels. 6/28-7/25/2008

Clarksville Writers' Conference
Clarksville Writers' Conference
A quality writers conference offering 18 different presentations/workshops with 10 top authors. Our conference is for readers, published and unpublished writers, and writing teachers.

Irv Bauer Screenwriting in Spoleto, Italy
Irv Bauer Screenwriting in Spoleto, Italy
Screenwriting: emphasis on craft. Flush out character and story. Focus on the visual, complete a short screenplay. Up to eight participants. Spoleto, Italy. August 14-27, 2008.

Margaret Irby Writing Workshops
Margaret Irby Writing Workshops
Nurture your creativity with gifted writing teacher Margaret Irby at these one-week workshops in the magical cities of Istanbul, Turkey (8/22-27/08) and Paris, France (10/12-18/08).

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.

Writers' Workshop in Provence
Writers' Workshop in Provence
Provence, France: memoirs, fiction, drama - plus great food, wine, fresh air, gorgeous sunsets. An intensive experience of creativity and camaraderie, June 15-21, 2008.

Limnisa Center Creative Writing Workshops
Limnisa Center Creative Writing Workshops
Six-day workshops with award-winning author Philip Wooderson at Limnisa Centre overlooking the Saronic Gulf on the Greek Island of Methanos. June 15-21 and 22-28, 2008.

Center to Page
Center to Page
Join one of our Yoga As Muse workshops or retreats. Gain expert guidance in all stages of your writing journey - from inspiration & drafting to publication.

Lesley University Writers' Conference
Lesley University Writers' Conference
Extraordinary opportunities to receive feedback from established writers, share ideas, make connections, and take your writing to the next level. Cambridge, MA • 7/27-8/1/2008.

Authorlink Virtual Classroom for Writers
Authorlink Virtual Classroom for Writers
New in 2008! Talk directly to publishing pros about polishing and selling your work. Interactive online writing courses taught by published professionals in state-of-the-art teleconferences.

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.

Writing By Cora
Writing By Cora
Learn the skills to become a publishable magazine writer at this intimate workshop conducted by award-winning veteran journalist/author Cora Daniels. Fire Island, NY • 5/5-10/08 or 5/12-17/08

Writers' Workshops at the Spencer
Writers' Workshops at the Spencer
Inspirational five-day workshops with today’s top writing professionals at The Spencer Hotel & Spa in the unique environment of Chautauqua Institution’s Bestor Plaza. Chautauqua, NY.

California College of the Arts Memoir Writers Studio
California College of the Arts Memoir Writers Studio
Five-day program guided by CCA instructor Marianne Rogoff offers an opportunity to create new writing, get feedback, and work closely with peers. San Francisco • 5/27-31/2008.

Original Impulse Travel Workshops
Original Impulse Travel Workshops
Enjoy Paris as a creative explorer. Daily workshops unlock the magic of Paris’s many secrets in a unique and memorable way. August 18th-25th, 2008.

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