TENTATIVE DATE FOR 2011:  AUGUST 1-4
AGAIN AT CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO

The summer workshops are offered to CCYW members who want to improve their writing.  The workshops will take place over the course of a week.  Various classes will be offered to students  including fiction, non-fiction, screenplay, poetry, broadcast radio, journalism, technical writing, etc.  Each year, the classes offered will vary and change according to the needs and desires of the students and availablility of authors. The main focus of the workshop will be in developing the art and craft of writing.  Key concepts for success will be stressed such as the necessity for good grammar, editing and revising – skills necessary in any field.  Instructors will be professionals in the industry, educators and published authors. 

AUGUST 2-5, 2010

8am-Noon

at
Capital Public Radio

Sacramento, CA

Cost:  $100

Registration:  Open until the 20 spaces are filled.  First come, first serve. Open to members in junior high and high school (or high school seniors who graduated this year in 2010).  
 

 ** Brenda Novak was originally scheduled to speak on Thursday, August 5th, but is unable to attend due to a book tour. JT Long will take her place and discuss journalism. Brenda hopes to attend CCYW's 2nd Annual N CA Writers Conference on July 16th, 2011. 

Monday, August 2, 8:00am-9:45am
Linda Joy Myers
Topic:  Memoir and Fiction Writing

Linda Joy Myers, Ph.D. is a practicing therapist of thirty years in Berkeley, California.  She has taught writing as a healing courses to her clients and has trained therapists in this method.  She is President and Founder of the National Association of Memoir Writers and author of The Power of Memoir: Writing Your Healing Story.  Linda’s writing has appeared in various literary journals and earned numerous awards.  An excerpt of her novel-in-progress, Secret Music, was a finalist in the 2006 San Francisco Writing Conference contest.   She is past-president of The California Writers Club, Marin branch, past vice-president of the Women’s National Book Association, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Story Circle Network. She offers ongoing memoir-writing workshops in the San Francisco Bay Area, and manages her business as the president of the National Association of Memoir Writers, highlighting writing as healing as one of the important aspects of her teaching and presentations. Visit Linda’s website at. www.namw.org.

Monday, August 2, 10:00am-12:00pm
Becky Levine
Topic: Critique Groups

Becky is the author of The Writing & Critique Group Survival Guide: How to Give and Receive Feedback, Self-Edit, and Make Revisions (Writer’s Digest, 2010). Becky also writes fiction and nonfiction for children, as well as nonfiction books for adults. She is a book reviewer and freelance writer for magazines and newspapers. Through her ten years as a freelance manuscript editor and her more than fifteen years participating in critique groups, Becky has learned firsthand the support and motivation that writers can give to each other on their writing paths. She is a passionate advocate of the benefits of critique groups and the value in working to build a strong, productive group.

Tuesday, August 3, 8:00am-10:45am
Indigo Moor
Topic:  Poetry

Indigo is a 2003 recipient of Cave Vanem's Writing fellowship in poetry and the winner of the 2005 Vesle Fenstermaker Poetry Prize for Emerging Writers.  His work has appeared in the Xavier Review, LA Review, Mochila Review, Boston University's The Comment, The Ringing Ear, the NCPA 2006 Anthology, and Gathering Ground.  His collection, Tap Root, was published in 2006 as part of Main Street Rag's Editor's Select Poetry Series.

Tuesday, August 3, 10:00am-12:00pm
Laurie McLean
Topic: The Young Adult Market 

Laurie joined the Larsen-Pomadea Literary Agency in 2005 following a 20-year stint as the CEO of a successful Silicon Valley public relations agency. Laurie was able to switch gears in 2002 to immerse herself in writing. She has penned three manuscripts to date, and if that wasn't enough, she decided that the life of a literary agent would be the perfect complement to her duties as a writer of genre fiction. She earned a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism from the State University of New York and a Master's Degree at Syracuse University's prestigious Newhouse School of Journalism.

Wednesday, August 4, 8:00am-10:45am
Linda Joy Singleton
Topic: Create a one-page synopsis in thirty-minutes!

Linda will teach the Do's & Don't of writing a synopsis that will SELL your novel. Then she'll guide writers through a template for writing a one-page synopsis. This Four-Step template offers writers an easy to follow method for creating synopses that will grab an editor's or agent's attention.

With plots involving twins, cheerleaders, ghosts, psychics and clones, Linda Joy Singleton has published over 25 Middle-grade and Young Adult Books. Her REGENERATION series from Berkley Books was chosen by the ALA as a 2001 Quick Pick Choice for reluctant young adult readers. It was also released in foreign and large-print editions, plus it was optioned by Fox for a year.  And TWIN AGAIN, the first book in the series, MY SISTER THE GHOST, won the Eppie Award for the best children’s book in 2003.

Wednesday, August 4, 10:00am-12:00pm
Tanya Egan Gibson 
Topic: Revision

This workshop will focus on thinking of revision as "deepening" rather than just "changing" or "bettering" your writing.  Learn to make what you love about your stories or essays shine.  Discover why effective writing is composed of many layers of thought, time, and drafting.  And most of all, experience the fun, freedom, and playfulness that re-visioning (seeing again) can bring to your writing process.

Tanya is the author of How to Buy a Love of Reading (May 2009 - Dutton), a novel about nouveau riche parents who try to cure their teenage daughter's hatred of books by commissioning a custom-written novel for her and dubbing themselves the Medicis of Long Island.  Hailed as "a fresh and funny new voice in the world of fiction" by Mark Childress (Crazy in Alabama), Tanya is a former high school English and creative writing teacher who lives in Marin County with her husband and two young children.  She would love you to visit her website, http://www.howtobuyaloveofreading.com, and share a story about how reading changed--or even saved--your life.

Thursday, August 5, 8:00am-10:45am
Bob Yehling and Verna Dreisbach
Topic: Multi-Genre Writing 

How do we weave poetry into fiction? Or art into non-fiction? How do we turn our stories into interactive experiences between print and online? Or write a novel that has elements of journalism, music, art and journaling in it? Cross-genre writing is an increasingly popular form of writing that works well with today’s multi-platform publishing options – and with the demands of readers to see original presentations and greater expositions of the narrator’s or characters’ inner and outer worlds. We will share basic strategies for writers who find it hard to stick with one genre, or want to write books that reach the increasingly multi-dimensional reader. 

Thursday, August 5, 10:00am-12:00pm
JT Long
Topic:  Journalism

JT Long is a freelance editor and reporter for business, political and financial publications. Her work has appeared in Fortune, Engineering News-Record and Comstock's magazines. She started in community newspapers and has launched six magazines in her career for audiences as diverse as school administrators, real estate agents and stay-at-home mothers. As Director of Content for a group of publications, she led the movement to digital content including adoption of social media and variable content creation.

Did you know that you can pitch journalistic story ideas in a multitude of ways?  In this workshop, JT will help you brainstorm magazine story topics and then create different leads for different publications based on an understanding of the audience.  You’ll understand the importance of The hook, The voice, and The spin. We will brainstorm magazine story topics and then students will create different leads for different publications based on an understanding of the audience.