C. M. MAYO Author of The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire, etc.

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December 10, 2008 Washington DC C.M. Mayo and Francisco Aragon featured on Grace Cavalieri's The Poet and the Poem at the Library of Congress. November 26, 2008 Mexico City Encuentro de escritores: Letras sobre la mesa. C.M. Mayo participará con Rosa Beltrán, Monica Lavín, Ana García Bergua, Eduardo Hurtado, Daniel Sada y otros. October 18, 2008 Mexico City Techniques of Fiction Workshop A special one day workshop in Mexico City 10 am - 2 pm For both beginning and experienced fiction writers working in English, "Techniques of Fiction" focuses on generating new material with exercises addressing specificity, point of view, synesthesia, imagery, image patterning, plot, rhythm, and the use and misuse of dialogue. Via Dancing Chiva. October 5, 2008 Bethesda MD One Day Flash-Fiction Workshop The Writers Center 1 -4 pm. Flash, or micro-fictions are stories as short as six and as long as, say, 1,000 words. Though a genre with a distinguished tradition, flash fiction is perfectly suited for blogging and podcasting. For both beginning and advanced writers, this workshop will focus on improving your fiction-writing craft and generating new material. October 3, 2008 Rockville MD HearArts Reading & Music Series, curated by Philip Wexler. Metropolitan Center for the Visual Arts 7:30-9:30 p.m. C.M. Mayo to read the excerpt from her forthcoming novel. September 4-7, 2008 Wherever YOU are Eric Maisel's amazing "virtual writers conference": the Writers Telesummit, September 4-7, 2008 (I'm giving the session on travel writing), please click here. July 26, 2008 Bethesda MD One Day Flash-Fiction Workshop The Writers Center 1 -4 pm. Flash, or micro-fictions are stories as short as six and as long as, say, 1,000 words. Though a genre with a distinguished tradition, flash fiction is perfectly suited for blogging and podcasting. For both beginning and advanced writers, this workshop will focus on improving your fiction-writing craft and generating new material. Click here for information about how to register. July 2, 2008 San Miguel de Allende, Mexico Reading 6 pm C.M. Mayo to read from new work in the University of New Orleans's Writing Workshops in San Miguel de Allende. May 31, 2008 Mexico City One Day Flash-Fiction Workshop A special one day workshop in Mexico City 10 am- 2 pm. Flash, or micro-fictions are stories as short as six and as long as, say, 1,000 words. Though a genre with a distinguished tradition, flash fiction is perfectly suited for blogging and podcasting. For both beginning and advanced writers, this workshop will focus on improving your fiction-writing craft and generating new material. Via Dancing Chiva. May 3, 2008 Linthicum MD Blogging for Writers: Best (& Worst) Practices for Writers 2:15-3:15 C.M. Mayo (aka blogger "Madam Mayo") to lead a one hour workshop. Maryland Writers Association conference Conference Center at the Maritime Institute of Technology 692 Maritime Boulevard Linthicum Heights, MD 21090-1952 Click here for the full conference schedule (a PDF) and here for registration details. February 23, 2008 San Miguel de Allende, Mexico San Miguel Writers Conference. Hotel Real de Minas. C.M. Mayo leads the break-out session on Creative Nonfiction. 11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. February 10, 2008 Bethesda MD Literary Travel Writing Workshop A special one day workshop at The Writers Center. 1-4 pm. Take your travel writing to another level: the literary, which is to say, giving the reader the novelistic experience of actually traveling there with you. For both beginning and advanced writers, this workshop covers the techniques from fiction and poetry that you can apply to this specialized form of creative nonfiction for deliciously vivid effects. For more information and to register, click here. February 9, 2008 Washington DC Fiction Writing All-Day Seminar: Washington Independent Writers and American University C.M. Mayo chairs panel on writers blogs as a new literary genre with fellow bloggers Leslie Pietrzyk, Deborah Ager, Wendi Kaufman and Shawn Westfall. For more information and to register, click here. To read my blog, visit Madam Mayo. January 30 - February 2, 2008 New York City Associated Writing Programs Conference C.M. Mayo will be at Tameme Chapbooks ~ Cuadernos at the AWP bookfair. January 19, 2008 Mexico City Literary Travel Writing Workshop A special one day workshop in Mexico City 10 am - 2 pm Take your travel writing to another level: the literary, which is to say, giving the reader the novelistic experience of actually traveling there with you. For both beginning and advanced writers, this three hour workshop covers the techniques from fiction and poetry that you can apply to this specialized form of creative nonfiction for deliciously vivid effects. More information about this workshop here.