Redwood Writer’s Academy 2017 finishes with a bang!
Join Rebecca Lawton Saturday, June 3 to learn how to build a successful author platform at the Flamingo Hotel, 2777 4th Street, Santa Rosa, California.The workshop goes from 9:30 am – 12:30 pm.
Creative nonfiction as a genre is both young and misunderstood. Careers have been built on the telling of true-life adventures but lost again when the line was crossed between fact and fiction. What, then, is the definition of this young genre? How can writers come to understand it? Does it include getting creative with writing memoir? In this workshop, we’ll look at breathtaking examples of creative nonfiction, discuss how to approach it, and learn its rules and how to honor them. We’ll write and share, explore how to turn real-life adventures into gripping accounts and dare to tell the truth.
Rebecca Lawton is a writer, geologist, and former Colorado River guide who has published in Aeon, Brevity, Hakai, More, Orion, Shenandoah, Sierra, THEMA, Undark, and many other journals. She is the author and co-author of seven books, including the creative nonfiction collection Reading Water: Lessons from the River, a SanFrancisco Chronicle Bay Area Bestseller and ForeWord Nature Book of the Year finalist. Her writing honors include a Fulbright Scholarship, Ellen Meloy Award for Desert Writers, WILLA for original softcover fiction, Waterston Desert Writing Prize, three Pushcart nominations, Best American Science and Nature Writing nomination, and residencies at Hedgebrook, The Island Institute, and Playa Fellowship Program. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Mills College and a B.S. in Earth Sciences from U.C. Santa Cruz, and she has taught writing workshops at the Mendocino Coast Writer’s Conference, North Coast Redwood.
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“An inspired and inspiring teacher”
– Writing It Down workshop participant, Point Reyes Field Institute.
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