Telling Our Tales
Fallbrook’s Writers Read is pleased to offer creative writing workshops for beginning and seasoned writers, because writing is not for sissies — it’s for everyone.
And we are happy to announce our collaboration with Fallbrook School of the Arts, which is hosting several of our 2010 workshops.
Autumn 2010 Workshops
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Writing Erotic:
An Evening of Lust, Love and Literature
at Fallbrook School of the Arts
Discover words your mother never taught you — and play with them in poetry or prose. This workshop is for folks who don’t write and folks who do, for couples, for singles, for the adventurous, for homebodies.
With a series of fun exercises, we will explore the ways of writing the things our senses tell us, as we engage them in the literature of lust and love — with things sweet and savory, soft and hard, light and dark, funny and sad, lilting and raucous. …
Our last erotica workshop was great fun, and this time we’re trying some new things, so join us for a memorable and entertaining experience!
Offered monthly:
Friday 10 September, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. — $25
Friday 08 October, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. — $25
Friday 12 November, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. — $25
Dress comfortably and come prepared to indulge your senses. Bring writing materials or a laptop. All other materials and yummy things to eat and drink are included in the fee.
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Craft, Craft and More Craft 101
This fiction workshop is for people who want to learn the basics of the creative writing craft. It is taught in a small group setting by award-winning authors with a gentle touch. We will explore the following elements of craft:
• plot arc • character development • dialogue • action • setting • tone •
Entertaining lessons, challenging writing prompts and facilitated feedback provide weekly opportunities to practice each element of the craft you are learning, share your writing with the group, and receive encouraging, constructive feedback.
Meets eight Tuesdays, 7 to 9 p.m., 31 August through 19 October 2010 — $80
Bring writing materials or a laptop. All other materials are provided.
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Telling Our Tales
at Fallbrook School of the Arts
A four-week creative writing workshop for people who want to write — poetry or prose, fiction or nonfiction — and just need a little encouragement from successful writers who know what it takes to get started — and how to keep writing. Telling Our Tales is taught through a series of writing prompts, sharing and encouraging feedback.
Facilitated by award-winning authors with a gentle touch, the four-session workshop will:
1. Guide you through the steps of identifying the key elements of the story you want to tell
2. Help you begin the writing as we explore the creative process and writing craft
3. Encourage you through the creation of your piece
This four-evening course meets Wednesdays from 7 to 9 p.m.:
27 Oct and 03, 10 and 17 Nov — $60
Bring writing materials or a laptop.
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Writing and Walking Fallbrook
at Fallbrook School of the Arts
This writing and walking tour of downtown Fallbrook explores the beauty and contrast — the art — in everyday things, things you might drive by for years and never notice: a mailbox made of mufflers, hollyhocks blooming in plastic tubs, a hidden oasis behind Main Street, a stream trickling its way past graffiti and handmade bridges.
We will introduce you to the colorful scenes and characters, the eccentric and the nostalgic, the aesthetic and the mundane of our quirky town — as we practice the art of descriptive writing.
The walk is relaxed, the writing fodder is plentiful, and we’ll stop someplace fun for a midday break, so bring a packed lunch.
Saturday 16 October 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. — $60 (includes entry to exhibits)
We recommend comfortable clothing and walking shoes — we will be popping indoors and out throughout the day. Also bring writing materials or a laptop, water, and a hat or umbrella if you are sensitive to the sun.
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For more information and to register: Call Kit-Bacon at 760-522-1064 or email her at kbgressitt@aol.com.
Please mail payment to:
Kit-Bacon Gressitt
740 W. Fig Street
Fallbrook, CA 92028
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Telling Our Tales Facilitators
Kate Harding is a Pushcart Prize nominee in both poetry and prose. Her work has appeared in many journals including Poetry International, California Quarterly, By Line, and Redbook. She is co-author of a chapbook, Maiden, Mother, Crone, and her chapbook What Women Do was a finalist in the Earth’s Daughter’s Chapbook competition. Kate is a winner of the Lucidity prize in poetry and the Julian Poetry Slam. Her movie, A Berkeley Christmas, was produced and aired by PBS.
Kit-Bacon Gressitt is a former political columnist for the North County Times, and recently returned to the paper as a freelance book reviewer. She received first place awards for her columns from the California Newspaper Publishers Association and the San Diego Society of Professional Journalists, and she was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Kit-Bacon’s political fiction and commentary are posted at The Progressive Post and at www.ExcuseMeImWriting.com. She is also founding editor of award-winning magazine IG Living, co-founder and editor of The Bridge, a literary journal, a second place winner of the Chiron Review annual poetry contest, and she has been published in the San Diego Poetry Annual.
