Hot Fun in the Summertime

Writers from workshops past are already asking about our summer offerings at Hazen Manor (www.hazenmanor.com) this July. For starters, and so you can save the dates, our kickoff reading will take place Sunday July 19th at Megan Collins-Hed’s bookstore, The Last Wordsmith Shoppe (www.lastwordsmith.com), in North East, PA. Our Findley Lake classes will begin Monday, July 20th and continue each day that week through Friday the 24th.

Liz, Sara, and I will conduct one class apiece, and the last two days of our week we’ll teach together. (We pretty much always do, anyway.) Those two collaborative classes will be called “Wooing the Muse,” and explore different tricks you can use to prod yourself into writing when you don’t have us to do it for you.

My class, “Feast of the Forgotten Senses,” was conceived in bewilderment a couple years ago during the holiday season—it seemed crazy to me that the only mode of celebration was food and drink. And more food and drink. And then more. But of course, there I was, gluttonizing with the rest of them. I did, however, resolve to create an antidote, and the result was the class I’ll give this summer.

Sara and Liz will follow shortly with posts about their classes. Check again soon.