WRITING RETREAT WORKSHOPS 2012 - SOLD OUT Laura Fraser | Writing from Experience | June 18 – 20 | Registration Opens Jan 1 Three-day non-juried workshop, first-come first-served, no writing sample required
Limited to 12 students
Course Description: How do you take the travel stories, journal entries, funny moments, and meaningful life experiences you’ve been writing about and turn them into publishable essays or a memoir? This three-day workshop will help you free up your personal writing, find the universal themes and epiphanies in your stories, and structure your writing into compelling pieces, with an aim to seeing them in print.
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Laura Fraser has taught at the University of California-Berkeley in the Graduate School of Journalism, in addition to other universities in northern California. She is an award-winning essayist and journalist and the author of All Over the Map, a travel memoir and sequel to her New York Times bestselling memoir, An Italian Affair. Her essays and articles have been published in The New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, More, Vogue, Gourmet, Good Housekeeping, Mother Jones, Afar, Tricycle: the Buddhist Review, and numerous other magazines and anthologies. Fraser resides in the Bay Area and currently teaches workshops at San Francisco Writers’ Grotto, where she has been a long-time member.
