Creativity Workshop, LLC

Announcing New Poetry Writing Workshop in Dublin

We are now offering 3 Summer Writing Workshops in Florence, Barcelona,
and Dublin The workshops are taught by award winning authors, Patricia
Foster and Kirpal Singh.

Fiction Writing Workshop in Florence: July 13 - 22, 2007
Memoir Writing Workshop in Barcelona: July 21 - 30, 2007
Poetry Writing Workshop in Dublin: July 29 - August 7, 2007
Our Writing Workshops in Fiction, Memoir, and Poetry share in common a
focus on the importance of the writer's journey and how to keep it vital
and growing. We delve into our deepest emotions and insights and explore
transformation, metaphor, and the innate structures of our writings. We
learn from each other's writing and ideas in a supportive environment.
We encourage risk-taking and experimentation. We examine how to listen
to and distill our instinctive ideas, images and inspirations into
language that is true to the core, into words that sing. All levels of
writing experience are welcome. Workshops focus on writing exercises
with some readings of master writers as a way to examine issues of
craft. The atmosphere is non-competitive with a focus on freeing up your
writing. We help make this possible through bringing down the walls of
fear and anxiety that inhibit our imagination and tapping into the
intelligent heart, the compass of our being. Our instructors are award
winning writers who are also accomplished teachers in their disciplines.

Poetry in Dublin: Our newly added Writing Workshop
Instructor: K. Singh
The Poetry Writing Workshop will take place in the most lyrical of
cities, Dublin, a vibrant center of renowned museums and universities,
lush green parks, and traditional Irish music. Ireland is famous for its
writers, such as W. B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, James Joyce, and Samuel
Beckett. Here, poetry is literally the stuff of daily life! The workshop
will explore techniques by which our poetic imaginations can be more
fully made alive to the intense emotions, thoughts and dreams that lie
within and without. We will stretch our creative musings with various
exercises in imagery, sense perception, tone, and musicality. Each day
there will be a theme which we will use to loosely focus our writing,
such as nature, solitude, 'the moment', and Dublin, itself. At the end
of the workshop we will each go away with a portfolio of at least 6
poems and a myriad of ways to bring forth your Muse!

Fiction Writing Workshop in Florence
Instructor: P. Foster
The Fiction Writing Workshop will take place within the walls of the old
city, home of Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and Botticelli. Florence
is also the setting of Bruneleschi's Duomo which revolutionized
architecture and the Uffizi Gallery which contains masterpieces of
Renaissance art. In this class we will look at how to create characters
whose desires compel us. We will do writing exercises that will stretch
our literary muscles, helping us create characters who emerge from the
particularity of our experience as well as characters who emerge solely
from our imagination.

Memoir Writing Workshop in Barcelona
Instructor: P. Foster
The Memoir Writing Workshop will take place near Paseo de Gracia, a
tree-lined street with some of the finest modernist architecture in this
fascinating city, which inspired Gaudi, Picasso, Dali, and Miro.
Barcelona also has a beautiful beach/restaurant area in which to walk,
sunbathe, or swim. Seaside resorts are only a 30 minute train ride away.
What we'll try to do in this workshop is find that deeper story, engage
that secret self. Getting to that place of inner clarity will not be the
same for everyone, but for everyone, exploration is the point. We will
do exercises to jump-start our memories, to discover vivid detail in
ordinary moments, and to create a narrative "I." Most importantly, we
will do writing exercises designed to find the emblematic moments in our
lives.

Class size is limited. Reserve your space in advance.
Classes meets 3.5 hours per day.
You can obtain 3 University credits for taking any of these workshops.
Contact us for details.

Pricing:
Fiction Writing Workshop in Florence: From $1,750 (including tuition and
9 night accommodations).
Memoir Writing Workshop in Barcelona: From $1,850 (including tuition and
9 night accommodations).
Poetry Writing Workshop in Dublin: From $2,200 (including tuition and
9 night accommodations).
SPECIAL OFFER
$100 off Early Registration (offer good until 1/15/2007)

Patricia Foster (Fiction and Memoir) is the author of All the Lost Girls
(memoir), Just Beneath My Skin (personal essays; starred review from
Kirkus Reviews) and the editor of Minding the Body and Sister to Sister.
She won the PEN/Jerard Fund Award, the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award, the
Hoepfner Award, and the Dean's Scholar Award for nonfiction, received a
Florida Arts Council Award, the Lake Effect Fiction Award, and a Yaddo
Fellowship for fiction as well as four Alabama Arts & Humanities grants.
Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times Book Review, Atlanta
Journal & Constitution, Vogue, Chronicle for Higher Education, Glamour,
Ploughshares as well as other newspapers and journals.

Kirpal Singh (Poetry) is a poet whose work is featured in the
forthcoming Norton Anthology of Asian Verse. Singh is the Editor of the
forthcoming Penguin Book of Southeast Asian Verse and numerous other
writing collections. He is the author of 4 books of poetry, his latest,
Nestled Dreams: Poems of Love is due out in Spring 2007.

For more information:
http://creativeseminars.net/writing
1-866-217-1980 (Toll-Free)
1-212-922-1555
[email protected]

To cancel these communications, please send an email to:
[email protected] with "Cancel" in the subject.

Please mail all inquiries to:
Vivian Glusman
245 E 40th St. 25th Floor
New York, NY 10016

Allow 2 weeks for cancellation.

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