The Maine Writers and Publisher’s Alliance has invited me to teach the fiction workshop at this year’s Harvest Writer’s Retreat. Mornings are spent in workshop, afternoons are meetings with faculty and evenings are readings. The setting is lovely, too! The poetry faculty will be Stuart Kestenbaum, so this weekend should be a treat.

My workshop’s theme will be FRICTION AND RESISTANCE. Description is in the link below.

The 2022 Harvest Writers Retreat is a weekend of workshops, seminars, readings, and writing at the stunning seaside Sebasco Harbor Resort in Phippsburg, one hour from Portland and just over two hours from Bangor. With rocky coast to wander and a workshop faculty of acclaimed authors, the retreat is designed to inspire.

In addition to the intensive morning workshops in a variety of writing genres, the weekend will include two craft and business of writing seminars, as well as faculty and participant readings and one-on-one sessions between faculty and students.

Workshops meet for three-hour sessions on both Saturday and Sunday morning. In our workshops, instructors use a variety of teaching techniques, including: guiding group critiques of works-in-progress; leading exercises for generating new material; and offering strategies and suggestions for revision.