PCC Hosts Winter Writers’ Workshop on Saturday
January 10, 2012
Tucson, AZ – Pima Community College is hosting a Winter Writers’ Workshop led by award-winning authors and agents on Saturday, January 14.
Science fiction writer Joan Vinge is one of nine authors who will offer advice on writing and publishing. Vinge’s latest book is the movie novelization for “Cowboys & Aliens.” She is the Hugo Award-winning author of dozens of science fiction novels and collections, including “The Snow Queen”, “World’s End”, and “Catspaw.”
Conference director Meg Files stated that this workshop is “for all writers, beginning and experienced.” Writers can learn how to write tighter, leaner and meaner with mystery writer Elizabeth Gunn. In other sessions, writers will learn how to find the heart of a story, what to do with a great idea that appears out of nowhere, how to build suspense, how to write screenplays and how to use fiction’s techniques to bring nonfiction to life.
Other presenters at the third annual Winter Pima Writers’ Workshop include fiction writer and poet Naomi Benaron, whose novel “Running the Rift” was selected by Barbara Kingsolver as the winner of the 2010 Bellwether Prize. “Rejection is something writers must deal with,” said Benaron. “How do we keep writing when the pile of ‘thanks but no thanks’ letters grow much faster than the pile of ‘we are delighted to accept’ ones?” Workshop participants will take away strategies to keep on writing beyond rejection.
Other presenters are national bestselling author Laura Fitzgerald, mystery series author Elizabeth Gunn, and poet and playwright Victor Lodato, whose debut novel won the PEN USA Literary Award for Fiction.
Also at the workshop will be Susan Lowell, author of many books for adults and children, including “The Three Little Javelinas”; Margaret Regan, author of “The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona-Mexico Borderlands”; film and television writer and producer Shane Riches; and John Vornholt, who has written everything from comic books to “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Star Trek” novels to the play “A Cactus Christmas.”
The workshop will take place from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.at Pima Community College’s West Campus, 2202 W. Anklam Rd. The fee is $75. To register, call (520) 206-6468. For more information, contact Meg Files at (520) 206-6084, email mfiles@pima.edu or visit the Pima Community College website.
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C.J. Karamargin
Vice Chancellor for Public Information and Government Relations
(520) 206-4850