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Summer 2005 Writing CoursesThe 2005 Writing Courses are over, but this course information is on the site so that you can see what courses we have sponsored in the past.
WORKS IN PROGRESS, with Nancy PeacockThere are two separate sessions, each at the same Chapel Hill location: - September 6 to October 25 (8 Tuesdays)
The following details apply to each session:
Having trouble finding a writer’s group? Works in Progress is an on-going roundtable workshop for beginning authors of fiction and memoir. Grow as a writer by learning critical reading skills, critiquing skills and the revision process. This is a friendly, supportive environment in which each writer is expected to produce work to be critiqued and to participate in the critiquing of other’s. Receive kind, gentle but informative critiquing. The growth of each writer supports us all. The workshop will run in consecutive eight-week sessions. Join for one, two or as many as you like. Nancy Peacock has taught writing at The ArtsCenter in Carrboro, The John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, and in bookstores and private homes across the state. She is the author of two novels, Home Across The Road and Life Without Water, which was chosen in 1996 as a New York Times Notable Book. She has published essays and short stories in journals and magazines such as Sojourner, St. Andrews' Review, and Southern Exposure. She has just finished a memoir. Peacock has always had to balance writing with holding down one, and sometimes two, day jobs. Testimonials: Nancy's class was about writing first of all for yourself. No judgments on good or bad, just the encouragement to write, write, write. Nancy's daily prompts were just the nudge I needed to sit in my favorite chair and write (which I had not done in a while). . . .
I loved Nancy's class! It was just the thing I was looking for -- a jump start on bringing discipline to my writing practice. I looked forward to my weekly drive out to the Old White Cross school to congregate around the full table of interesting folks who seemed just as hungry as I was for encouragement and discipline. Her workshop gave me -- finally -- the validation I'd been looking for to call myself a writer, published or not. The combination of writing exercises, reading and discussion was a perfect balance for me. The daily prompts were a wonderful tool. Nancy already had my respect for her writing since I'd read one of her books some time ago, but she now has my added respect for her very humble approach to teaching.
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