EVENTS
Readings, book
signings,
lectures, panels, workshops
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.
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.
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.
Direct link for registration to be posted asap.
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 from and sign copies of From
Mexico to Miramar or, Aross the Lake of Oblivion a nonfiction
novela about a fairytale, in a special bilingual edition translated
by Mexican novelist Araceli Ardon. For full description and location,
click here.
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.
February 20-22, 2009 San
Miguel de Allende, Mexico
San
Miguel Writers Conference
Details to be announced.
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