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presents

Spring Writing Workshop

Saturday, May 22, 2010
11:00am – 2:00pm

Facilitators: Yael Flusberg and Michelle Sewell

This interactive 3-hour workshop is designed to strengthen your ability to access your original voice, take creative risks, and move your writing to a deeper level. Writing exercises and feedback from your instructors and fellow writers will allow you to expand your powers of observation, imagination, and language. The workshop is perfect for writers at all stages of development.

THE WORKSHOP WILL FOCUS ON

Writing Exercises to Produce Draft Work
(with an emphasis on memoirs and short stories)

Discussion on:
Writing Habits and Tools
Craft Elements
Revision Techniques

EACH WRITER WILL RECEIVE:

• A Workbook
• A copy of Just Like A Girl: A Manifesta!
• After workshop opportunity to submit up to 2 excerpts/pieces to GirlChild Press for a written critique

The final hour of the workshop will allow for discussion and review of existing projects. Writing should take no more than 10 minutes to read aloud.

Class size is limited to allow for maximum feedback and review. Registration will close when the class is full.

(D.C) 2548 University Place, NW
Washington, DC
community room
(use side door)

The $50.00 workshop fee is due no later than the day before the class.  Early registration is  encouraged  due to  limited class size. For more information: girlchildpress@aol.com

Yael Flusberg’s  poetry and essays have been widely published, most recently in America! What's My Name?, Beltway Poetry Journal, Just Like A Girl, and WAMU radio. A member of the Macondo Writers Workshop started by McArthur Genius Saudra Cisneros, she has served as Poet-in-Residence at St. Mary's College of Maryland in 2007 & 2008, and has won awards for her work from the DC Commission on Arts & Humanities. In the Spring of 2008, Yael helped organize the Split This Rock Poetry Festival which brought hundreds of writers together on the the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq. Yael teaches yoga & writing workshops, and is an advisor to social entrepreneurs, nonprofit and philanthropic leaders, and artists through her boutique firm Y Elements: Practices for Transformation.