Master Classes: Fall Conference 2007
Fall Conference 2007 was held in Winston-Salem, NC, at The Hawthorne Inn.
The conference is over, but we have
left this conference information on the site so that you can refer to it as a model
of what our Fall Conference is like.
Saturday, November 17, 2:30-4:30 pm
Master Classes offer intermediate and advanced writers a chance to
delve more deeply into a particular genre. The Master Classes are a half
hour longer than other Session III classes and limited to 15 students.
Admissions
Participants are admitted on the strength of a writing sample
submitted in advance of the conference. While publication credits are
not required, you should submit a brief cover letter summarizing your
writing background and highlighting publication credits if applicable.
Include a payment of $25 (nonrefundable processing fee).
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 24 (postmarked).
When you register for Master Class, please choose a Session III class as a back-up in case you are not
admitted to the Master Class.
Submission Guidelines for Each Genre
- Fiction.
Submit a cover letter and no more than 10 double-spaced pages of
fiction, 12-point type (short story or novel excerpt). Mail 2 hard
copies to NCWN Fiction Master Class, PO Box 954, Carrboro, NC 27510.
- Nonfiction.
Submit a cover letter and no more than 10 double-spaced pages of
nonfiction, 12-point type (essay or excerpt). Mail 2 hard copies to NCWN
Nonfiction Master Class, PO Box 954, Carrboro, NC 27510.
- Poetry.
Submit a cover letter and no more than 5 single-spaced pages of poetry,
12-point type. Mail 2 hard copies to NCWN Poetry Master Class, PO Box
954, Carrboro, NC 27510.
Two weeks before the conference, you will be notified about your enrollment status.
Available Classes
CREATIVE NONFICTION MASTER CLASS - Real People vs. People on the Page, with Randall Kenan
We will be discussing the bedeviling but exciting problem every
nonfiction writer must face when translating actual people into the
written word. We will talk about techniques (characterization, language,
physicality), limitations, and the ethics of representation. The goal of
the class will be to help give the nonfiction writer tools and ways of
thinking about writing about people in vivid, honest and accurate ways.
FICTION MASTER CLASS - Place in Fiction: Its Problems and Possibilities, with Ron Rash
This class will center on place in fiction. We will discuss landscape as
character, the use of dialect, and the differences between local color
writing and regional writing. Examples of such writers as Bernard
MacLaverty, Alice Walker, and Cormac McCarthy will be used in our
discussion.
POETRY MASTER CLASS - Re-Forming the Line: Rhythm, Sound and Spacing in Free Verse, with Tony Abbott
This class will look at ways we can "reform" our lines of free verse to
make them less like prose. We will look for ways of getting greater
rhythm, sound, and music into the lines without necessarily using rhyme
and meter. After a discussion of these techniques we will, as individual
class members, take one of the poems submitted for the class and
"reform" the lines, using the possibilities discussed in the first part
of the session.
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