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WORKSHOPS PAST
Saturday May 27
and Sunday May 28, 2017 Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas
Pine Springs Visitor Center
9 am - 10 am (Mountain Time)
As the park's artist-in-residence C.M. Mayo will offer a free writing workshop: Travel and Nature Writing for the Vivid Dreamer Whether writing for your personal journal, your blog, or
for publication in a book or magazine, take it to another level:
giving the reader the sense of the "vivid dream" of
traveling there with you into these mountains, under these skies.
For writers young and old, this workshop covers little known
but powerful techniques from fiction and poetry than you can
apply to your writing for delicious effects.
May 15-30, 2017
Guadalupe
Mountains National Park, Texas As artist-in-residence
I will be offering a writing workshop, probably Memorial Day
weekend. Details to be announced.
October 15, 2016Santa
Fe, New Mexico
Saturday, 9:40 -10:40 am Women
Writing the West Conference Podcasting for Writers Audio
podcasts, on-line digital files, not only serve as an important
promotional tool for writers, but they can
be storytelling vehicles themselves, whether as stand-alone works
or complements to text. This workshop provides an introduction
and overview of podcasting for writers, from basic concepts to
nuts-and-bolts tips. The goal is that by the end of the workshop,
you will be able to go home and use your iPhone or digital recorder
and computer to generate and then post a simple podcast on-line.
Listen to C.M. Mayo's
podcasts here. View the handout for this workshop: "Podcasting for Writers:
To Commit or Not (or Vaguely?)"
April 16, 2016 Bethesda MD
(Saturday, one day only) The
Writer's Center 10 am - 1 pm
Literary Travel Writing Take your travel writing
to another level: the literary, which is to say, giving the reader
the novelistic experience of actually traveling there with you.
For both beginning and advanced writers, this workshop covers
the techniques from fiction and poetry that you can apply to
this specialized form of creative nonfiction for deliciously
vivid effects.
Feb 11
@ 11 AM - 12:30 PM Taller de "Podcasting para escritores"
(en español)
Feb 13
@ 11 AM - 12:30 PM
C.M. Mayo to moderate panel on "Global Migration: People
and Their Stories" With Juan Villoro, Luis
Alberto Urrea, Elizabeth Hay and Lisa See.
April 18, 2015 (Saturday,
one day only)
Bethesda
MD (Near Washington DC) The
Writer's Center 10 am - 1 pm
Literary Travel Writing Take your travel writing
to another level: the literary, which is to say, giving the reader
the novelistic experience of actually traveling there with you.
For both beginning and advanced writers, this workshop covers
the techniques from fiction and poetry that you can apply to
this specialized form of creative nonfiction for deliciously
vivid effects. Questions about this
workshop? Email
me here.
October 11, 2014Bethesda
MD (Near Washington DC) The
Writer's Center 10 am - 1 pm
Literary Travel Writing Take your travel writing
to another level: the literary, which is to say, giving the reader
the novelistic experience of actually traveling there with you.
For both beginning and advanced writers, this workshop covers
the techniques from fiction and poetry that you can apply to
this specialized form of creative nonfiction for deliciously
vivid effects.
February 27, 2014
Seattle WA Panel Discussion "Homesteading
on the Digital Frontier: Writers Blogs"
Associated Writing Programs Conference
Room 615/616/617 Washington State Convention Center, Level 6
4:30 pm - 5:45 pm
Writers present strategies on
how to start a blog, where to get material, how to publicize
a blog and add readers and followers, and how to sustain it over
time. Other topics: Is blogging a new genre of literature? Why
do blogs matter? To monetize, or not to monetize? What are SEO
and tagging, and how do you use them? How do analytics help increase
readership? How can blogging improve book sales and reading attendance?
Should you react to events or pick your own blog topics?
Zack
Rogow, Moderator
Zack Rogow is the author, editor, or translator of nineteen books
or plays. His seventh book of poems, My Mother and the Ceiling
Dancers, was published by Kattywompus Press. Currently he
teaches in the low-residency MFA in writing program at the University
of Alaska Anchorage.
Mark Doty
Mark Doty's eight books of poems have received the National Book
Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He's also the
author of four books of nonfiction prose and a handbook for writers.
A new book of poems, Deep Lane, is forthcoming. He teaches
at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
C.M. Mayo
C.M. Mayo's books include the novel The Last Prince of the
Mexican Empire; Miraculous Air: Journey of 1000 Miles through
Baja California, the Other Mexico; and Sky Over El Nido,
which won the Flannery O'Connor Award. One of the pioneers of
lit-blogging, her blog is "Madam
Mayo." www.cmmayo.com
October
26, 2013Bethesda MD The Writer's Center's second-annual Publish Now!,
a seminar on publishing a book or eBook in the new digital age
in Bethesda MD (just outside Washington DC). Whether still working
on your manuscript or ready to publish, this "how-to"
program is designed to give you the information you need to take
control of your publishing experience.
9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Early Registration (by Oct. 1): $100; $85 Writer's Center members;
$50 students (with valid ID)
To register, visit www.writer.org/publishnow/enroll
The Writer's Center | 4508 Walsh Street | Bethesda, MD 20815
| p 301.654.8664
>I'll be talking about Kindles and
interactive iBookstore ebooks.
September 8, 2012Bethesda
MD (Near Washington DC) The
Writer's Center 1 - 5 pm
Literary Travel Writing Take your travel writing
to another level: the literary, which is to say, giving the reader
the novelistic experience of actually traveling there with you.
For both beginning and advanced writers, this workshop covers
the techniques from fiction and poetry that you can apply to
this specialized form of creative nonfiction for deliciously
vivid effects. >>Register
on-line here. >>If the website shopping cart isn't working,
no worries, call the Writer's Center at 301-654-8664
May 5, 2012,
Bethesda
MD Podcasting
(Audio) for Writers Writer's
Center
One day only. 10
am - 12 pm Audio podcasts, on-line
digital files, not only serve as an important promotional tool
for writers, but they can be storytelling vehicles themselves,
whether as stand-alone works or complements to text. This workshop
provides an introduction and overview of podcasting for writers,
from basic concepts to nuts-and-bolts tips. The goal is that
by the end of the workshop, you will be able to go home and use
your iPhone or digital recorder and computer to generate and
then post a simple podcast on-line. >>Listen to C.M. Mayo's
podcasts here. >>REGISTER
ON-LINE
May 5, 2012,
Bethesda
MD How
(and How Not to) Write Dialogue
Writer's Center
One day only. 1
pm- 5 pm
One of the most powerfully vivid ways to show character, relationship,
conflict, and/or mood is through the use of dialogue. For both
beginning and advanced fiction and nonfiction writers, this workshop
focuses on the use and misuse of dialogue, with a series of mini-lectures
interspersed with brief exercises. The goal is by the end of
the workshop, your dialogue will be of notably higher quality.
>>Read C.M. Mayo's writing,
which has plenty of dialogue, here. >>REGISTER
ON-LINE
February 20 and 21, 2012
San Miguel
de Allende
San Miguel
Writing Intensive
"Techniques of Fiction" For both
beginning and experienced fiction writers, "Techniques of
Fiction" focuses on generating new material with exercises
addressing specificity, point of view, synesthesia, imagery,
image patterning, plot, rhythm, and the use and misuse of dialogue.
The goal is that by the end of the workshop, your writing will
be of notably higher quality.
>>See a
profile
on the San Miguel Writers Conference website.
For C.M. Mayo events
in San Miguel de Allende, please also visit the events page.
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Praise for
C.M. Mayo's "Techniques
of Fiction" workshop
at the Writers Center, Bethesda MD, 6/ 2009:
"I
found this workshop extremely helpful to kickstart my
writing. It gave me useful tools and exercises to use
in a very short space of time."
"Great workshop. Loved the exercises, toolkit approach and
focus on technique and structure. Open to questions. Came
prepared with many resources. Very accessible, matter-of-fact
approach to writing. Ms. Mayo takes the mystery out of writing
and makes it real."
Praise
for C.M. Mayo's "Dialogue
Intensive" workshop
at the Writers Center, Bethesda MD, 9/ 2009:
"C.M.
Mayo is a fabulous, informative, empathetic, skilled, talented
(highly talented) writer and workshop leader"
"Great workshop. Wanted more!"
"Great instructor. Excellent tips re: dialogue and writing
in general. Very helpful."
"She has a delightful spirit and offers warm encouragement."
Praise
for C.M. Mayo's "Techniques
of Fiction"
workshop in San Miguel de Allende, 2/ 2009:
"This
workshop was jam-packed with practical techniques! I feel
I suddenly have the inside secrets that distinguish extraordinary
writing— and even I can do them! Imagine. Great writing
can be learned.
—
Susan Page
Wonderful nuts
and bolts workshop.
Writers of all levels should not miss it!
—Sterling Bennett
Recent (and to
be repeated in 2011):
April 18, 2009 "Literary Travel Writing" The
Writers Center
Bethesda MD A special
one day only workshop with C.M. Mayo, 1-5 pm. Take your travel writing
to another level: the literary, which is to say, giving the reader
the novelistic experience of actually traveling there with you.
For both beginning and advanced writers, this workshop covers
the techniques from fiction and poetry that you can apply to
this specialized form of creative nonfiction for deliciously
vivid effects. >>Read an article about this workshop from
The Writer's Carousel reprinted on my blog, Madam Mayo.
Mexico
City:
For the one-day workshops in Mexico City, please visit Dancing
Chiva.
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