Monday, April 18, 2011
Antioch Writers' Workshop Goes Social
The Antioch Writers' Workshop is now on Twitter and Facebook! To keep up-to-date with all of the exciting events and information, Like us on Facebook or follow @AntiochWritersW on Twitter.
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Writing Tips from AWW 2011 Faculty -- Katrina Kittle
As part of our blog series, Antioch Writers' Workshop 2011 Faculty share their tips for writing. You can read complete bios of AWW 2011 Faculty at antiochwritersworkshop.com. Check back regularly for more helpful writing tips.
Katrina Kittle - Afternoon Young Writers Seminar
Taught high school Advanced Placement British Literature for five years at Centerville High School, and 6th and 7th grade English at the Miami Valley School in Dayton.
Selected Publications: Traveling Light and Two Truths and a Lie, The Kindness of Strangers, (2006) The Blessings of the Animals (2010), Reasons To Be Happy (2011).
Selected Awards: Grants from the Ohio Arts Council and from the Montgomery County Arts and Cultural District, BookSense pick for February, Fiction Book winner for the 2006 Great Lakes Book Awards, Indie Next pick, and Midwest Connections pick.
Quick Tips:
1. Write the book! You can make it better later, but first you have to make it exist!
2. Care about craft. Read every book about writing, take every class about writing, attend every conference about writing that you can find. Try to apply everything you learn to the work in progress (see #1).
3. Do the work. There is no secret or magic to getting published. Much of it simply takes tedious research and patience.
Taught high school Advanced Placement British Literature for five years at Centerville High School, and 6th and 7th grade English at the Miami Valley School in Dayton.
Selected Publications: Traveling Light and Two Truths and a Lie, The Kindness of Strangers, (2006) The Blessings of the Animals (2010), Reasons To Be Happy (2011).
Selected Awards: Grants from the Ohio Arts Council and from the Montgomery County Arts and Cultural District, BookSense pick for February, Fiction Book winner for the 2006 Great Lakes Book Awards, Indie Next pick, and Midwest Connections pick.
Quick Tips:
1. Write the book! You can make it better later, but first you have to make it exist!
2. Care about craft. Read every book about writing, take every class about writing, attend every conference about writing that you can find. Try to apply everything you learn to the work in progress (see #1).
3. Do the work. There is no secret or magic to getting published. Much of it simply takes tedious research and patience.
Monday, April 11, 2011
Writing Tips from AWW 2011 Faculty -- Matthew Goodman
As part of our blog series, Antioch Writers' Workshop 2011 Faculty share their tips for writing. You can read complete bios of AWW 2011 Faculty at antiochwritersworkshop.com. Check back regularly for more helpful writing tips.
Matthew Goodman - Morning Creative Nonfiction
Has taught creative writing and literature at Vermont College, Emerson College, and Tufts University.
Selected Publications: The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York (Basic Books, 2008), Ahead of Time: The Story of Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World (forthcoming, Random House)
Selected Awards: 2008 Best Book of the Year by The Economist magazine, selected as an Original Voices book by Borders bookstores nationwide, received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Blue Mountain Center.
Quick Tips:
1. Figure out the time of day when you do your best writing. Then do whatever you can to be writing every day at that time.
2. Don't consider a page finished until you have read it out loud.
3. The best way to get published is to become the best writer you can possibly be.
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