Short Prose Forms:
a writing weekend with Rebecca Brown

May 11-13, 2012
Cost: $150
(this includes all workshops, materials, and other events)

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As part of our commitment to create opportunities for established and emerging writers, this program will be open to the public and offers a weekend of classes, workshops, and readings to be held on the grounds of Casa Libre. Residents can be housed at The Historic Hotel Congress. Please email casakeepers@casalibre.org for Hotel Congress's discounted rate information. The Group Residency will feature guest faculty member Rebecca Brown.

Workshop Description:

SHORT PROSE FORMS: This workshop will explore short prose and mixed genre forms such as haibun, prose poetry, vignette, collage narrative and utterly unclassifiable things. We will look to work by authors who may include Italo Calvino, Kevin Sampsell, Basho, Kafka, Joan Fiset, Michael Ondaatje and others to inspire our own original work. Come to class with a spirit of openness and a willingness to read, discuss and write a lot. Writers of all genres and all levels are welcome.

Guest Faculty Bio:

Rebecca Brown's l2th book, a collection of essays entitled American Romances, was released by City Lights in June, 2009 and won the Publishing Triangle Award. Brown is also the author of The Last Time I Saw You (City Lights 2006) and Woman in Ill Fitting Wig, a collaboration with painter Nancy Kiefer. Brown’s nonfiction book, Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary, was published by Granta Books (UK), University of Wisconsin Press (USA), and Asahi Shimbun (Japan). Among her other books are The End of Youth, The Dogs: A Modern Bestiary, Annie Oakley's Girl and The Terrible Girls all with City Lights, and The Gifts of the Body, (HarperCollins). She has been awarded numerous prizes including a Stranger Genius Award, a Boston Book Review Award for Fiction, a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, a Lambda Literary Foundation Award, a twice winner of the Washington State Book Award. She has been awarded numerous grants from the Breneman-Jaech Foundation. Her books have been translated into Japanese, German, Danish, Norwegian, etc.
She co-edited, with Robert Corbett of Experimental Theology, (Seattle Research Institute, 2003) an anthology of responses modern views of god and godlessness. In 2009, Looking Together: Writers on Art, which she co-edited with Mary Jane Knecht of the Frye Art Museum, was published by the University of Washington Press.

She has curated reading series for The Richard Hugo House, New City Theater, Red and Black Books and the Frye Art Museum and the Port Townsend Writers Conference, of which she is a former director. Brown has been awarded residencies by The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, The Millay Colony and Hawthornden Castle. For five years she was also a regular speaker with the Seattle Opera for their Dangerous Opposites Lecture series. She has taught in college and university settings in the US and abroad, including Brown University, Northwestern University, Tokyo University, Wellesley, Universities of Florence, Milan and Bologna (Italy), University of Texas, University of Alaska, Naropa, the Cranbrook Academy, UC Davis, etc. and is currently a member of the MFA in writing faculty at Goddard College in Vermont.

Weekend Schedule:

Friday, May 11, 2012
7-9 pm: Meet & Greet at Casa Libre

Saturday, May 12, 2012
9-12: Morning workshop
12-1: Lunch (on your own)
1-5: Afternoon Workshop
5-6: Dinner (on your own)
7-9: Short Prose Forms Reading w/Rebecca Brown and Kate Bernheimer
9-10: Wine and Cheese Reception

Sunday, May 13, 2012
9-12: Morning workshop
12-1: Departure Lunch

Call or email Casa Libre with questions:
casakeepers@casalibre.org
520-325-9145