A yearlong workshop in writing the creative nonfiction book.
July 7, 2015 – July 12, 2015
UPDATE: This class is now full. Subscribe to Teresa’s email list to learn about other classes and workshops she is teaching.
In July, 2014, Teresa will join the Fishtrap faculty to work with promising writers over the course of a year on a book-length project in creative nonfiction. Fishtrap is a deeply nurturing writing community that has generated clear thinking and great writing in the American West for a quarter of a century.
This Yearlong Workshop is a 13-month intensive writing program modeled after low-residency MFA programs. Three short, intense group sessions frame a year of long-distance instruction, offered at about half the cost of most low-residency MFAs. If you don’t need a degree, but want high-quality, sustained support and instruction for your writing, this program could be perfect for you. And if you have a book inside you wanting to get out, this could offer the framework in which you can finally release it.
The class is open to all types of narrative nonfiction including memoir, literary journalism, biography and travel or food writing. Limited to twelve students, it will meet three times, beginning and ending with the week-long Summer Fishtrap Gatherings on beautiful Wallowa Lake in northeast Oregon. Midyear, in January, we will meet at Blue Gate Studio in Virgin, Utah, in a very different but equally stunning landscape near Zion National Park. In between, students will submit work once a month for response and support. Participants should have a book underway or clearly in mind and be able to commit to a year of focused work.
Teresa’s goal is to guide each student in the habits of work and imagination that make a writing life sustainable, and to shape the workshop so that it can cohere as a community able to nurture each member’s creative endeavor.
Learn more about Fishtrap in general here.
Applications accepted Dec. 15, 2013 – January 17, 2014
Comments from recent students:
- Teresa is a gentle and generous and immensely effective instructor, bringing her gifts as a both a literary and a visual artist to bear in every minute of every class.
- I loved this class. It made me believe in myself as a writer again. Teresa has a gift for maintaining a high level of discussion and standards, and at the same time embracing the class with her warmth and sincerity.
- I would absolutely recommend the class to a friend. Learning that there is a process and structure is so helpful. The books recommended were perfect. Teresa’s grasp of the writing craft is impressive and her teaching style is very engaging and gentle.
- It was an incredible gift from the universe to be able to be here and feed my artist’s soul. I appreciated Teresa’s humbleness, competence, kindness, compassion and encouragement.
