2023 Summer Workshops

Dani Shapiro Transforming Chaos into Art: A Workshop In Fiction & Memoir August 14 to August 19, 2022 Tuition: $800.00 Workshop: 9 AM - 12 PM Discipline: Multi-Genre OPEN TO ALL On-site Housing NOT Available - Off-site Housing Options

The most helpful writing workshops are ones in which the group acts as a single organism, its sole purpose being to help the piece of work at hand become its best possible self. Memoir, fiction—it’s all storytelling. Whether you’re bringing in pages of a memoir-in-progress or a work of fiction, we approach the page with an eye towards structure, character, voice, place, detail. Find the tenacity and take-no-prisoners courage to do your finest work.

Send no more than 12 pages of fiction or memoir (12 point font, double spaced) to ssiegel@dev.fawc.org by August 1.

Biography

Dani Shapiro is a bestselling novelist and memoirist and host of the podcast Family Secrets. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Vogue, and Time. She has taught at Columbia and New York University and is the co-founder of the Sirenland Writers Conference. Her new novel, Signal Fires, will be published by Knopf in October.