Please note: All Workshops take place at
New Life Presbyterian Church
5540 Eubank NE
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Saturday, September 6
1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
$20 for members
$30 for non members
No registration. Pay at the door.

Carolee Dean

SWW Workshop
Unforgettable Characters: Why We Love the People We Love

Examine the interrelatedness between character and plot. Go beyond physical descriptions and personality quirks to explore the deep inner psyche of your hero. Use dialogue and action in place of laborious description. Learn to become an observer of human nature. Find out what makes an enduring character, one your reader will remember for a lifetime.

Carolee Dean holds a Master’s Degree in Communicative Disorders from the University of New Mexico and currently works as a speech-language pathologist in the Albuquerque Public Schools. Her first novel, Comfort, published by Houghton Mifflin, was named the Best Young Adult Novel of 2002 by the Texas Institute of Letters and was nominated as an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. She teaches creative writing for young people at the Sandia Preparatory School Summer Program, has taught Scientific Writing for Teens through the Dream Catcher Science Program sponsored by Sandia Labs and is a frequent guest speaker at schools, workshops and conferences.

Saturday, October 4
1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
$20 for members
$30 for non members
No registration. Pay at the door.

Lynn C. Miller, Ph.D

SWW Workshop
Generative writing Workshop

For writers of all levels, this workshop allows participants to begin new projects. Writing in a community creates a powerful synergy and allows many writers to explore new territory. Through specific exercises, the group will explore various ways of generating new work. This is a place to try out new forms and approaches, not a critique session for already-produced work. In addition to drawing upon my work and research into the performance of autobiography, we will use techniques developed by the Amherst Writers and Artists method which emphasizes positive feedback and honors each writer's privacy and process. In discussion, all work is treated as fiction, releasing each writer’s creative process and keeping the class focus on the writing rather than the writer.

Lynn C. Miller is author of the novels The Fool’s Journey (2002) and Death of a Department Chair (2006) and co-editor of Voices Made Flesh: Performing Women’s Autobiography (2003). Over the past two decades, she has served as a guest artist at dozens of universities, art museums, and festivals, touring performances of Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, and Katherine Anne Porter and conducting writing/performance workshops. In fall of 2007 she left the University of Texas at Austin, where she was a professor in women’s studies and theatre, to found WriteSpace International in Albuquerque, New Mexico where she coaches individuals and groups in writing and developing creative approaches to thinking and life change.

Saturday, December 6
1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
$20 for members
$30 for non members
No registration. Pay at the door.

Sherri Burr

SWW Workshop
Minding Finances for Writers
Copyrights, Contracts, Trademarks and other Financial Matters

Learn when and how to register copyrights and trademarks with the appropriate government organization. Workshop participants will learn to evaluate contract clauses that are beneficial and practice negotiation techniques to change the problematic clauses in article and book contracts. Further, the workshop will teach participants methods of tracking income and expenses for tax purposes. This workshop will combine lecture with small group work so that writers will emerged energized and more williing and able to manage their finances.

Sherri Burr joined the University of New Mexico School of Law faculty in 1988 after having received degrees from Mount Holyoke College, Princeton University, and the Yale Law School. She received tenure and promotion to full professor in 1994. An internationally renowned lecturer, Burr has spoken at universities in Barbados, Canada, Chile, France, Greece, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and South Africa. Burr has written eleven books, numerous scholarly articles, and hundreds of newspaper articles for the general public. She is the recipient of over a dozen awards for her writing, speeches and television show ARTS TALK, which she produces and hosts.