Telling Our Tales
Fallbrook’s Writers Read is pleased to offer Telling Our Tales, creative writing workshops for beginning and seasoned writers.
Upcoming workshop: Spring Into Writing
March 29 through April 26, 2010
A creative writing workshop for people who want to write — poetry or prose, fiction or creative nonfiction — and just need a little encouragement from successful writers who know what it takes to get started — and how to keep writing.
Facilitated by award-winning authors with a gentle touch, the five-session workshop will:
• Guide you through the steps of identifying the key elements of the story you want to tell
• Help you begin the writing as we explore the creative process
• Encourage you through the creation of your piece
Dates: Monday evenings, from 7 to 9, March 29, April 5, 12, 19 and 26.
Cost: $60
To register: Call Kit-Bacon at 760-522-1064 or email her at kbgressitt@aol.com. The class is limit to 10, so register early!
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Craft, Craft and More Craft
February 22 through March 17, 2010
Facilitated by award-winning writers with a gentle touch, our next Telling Our Tells workshop focuses on elements of the creative writing craft, offered in four two-day segments, over four weeks:
Character Development — Feb 22 and 24, 7 to 9 p.m.— $25 for the two-day segment
Plot/Arc — March 1 and 3, 7 to 9 p.m. — $25 for the two-day segment
Dialogue — March 8 and 10, 7 to 9 p.m.— $25 for the two-day segment
Setting and Tone — March 15 and 17, 7 to 9 p.m.— $25 for the two-day segment
Choose the areas you’d like to work on or sign up for all four two-day segments for a 10% discount ($90, instead of $100).
To register: Each two-day segment is limited to 10 participants, so register today by contacting Kit-Bacon at 760-522-1064 or emailing her at kbgressitt@aol.com.
Send payment to: Kit-Bacon Gressitt, 740 W. Fig Street, Fallbrook, CA 92028
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 www.ExcuseMeImWriting.com. She is also founding editor of award-winning magazine IG Living, co-founder 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.
