Nance Van Winckel

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Nance Van Winckel

Patricia Henley

Patricia's first novel, Hummingbird House, was a finalist for the 1999 National Book Award and the New Yorker Fiction Prize (2000). Her second novel is In the River Sweet. She has also published three collections of stories (Friday Night at Silver Star, The Secret of Cartwheels, and Worship of the Common Heart). Her work has been anthologized in The Pushcart Prize Anthology and Best American Short Stories. Patricia has taught in the MFA Program at Purdue University for nineteen years.

Individual Manuscript Critiques


Please e-mail Nance for information about the feedback she offers on book-length poetry, fiction, and nonfiction manuscripts. Her fees are arranged with each author individually for this service.

St. Augustine Advanced Writing Seminars for Women

Mid-March 2007

Sign up for One or Two Sessions This Year!

Session One: March 16-17: Hybrid Forms Workshop/Seminar with Nance

Session Two: March 18-20: Regular Workshop in Poetry with Nance or Fiction with Patricia Henley


Featuring craft talks, workshops, and participant readings, this writers’ workshop is primarily for women writers who’ve already completed MFA’s. Writers who participated last year will have first priority.



SOME OF THE 2006 ST. AUGIE'S GALS
 

The St. Augie’s Women’s Writing Workshops for 2007


The sessions are held in the charming historic district of St. Augustine, Florida and participants stay in B & B's that are close to the workshop site. All workshops will be limited to nine participants. Readings by faculty and participants are held at Flagler College.

March 16-17 Hybrid Forms: a workshop/seminar with Nance Van Winckel
There will be 2 full days of workshop and discussion on hybrid forms: prose poems, flash fictions, short lyric essays, and other “in-betweens.” For this workshop, participants will receive a packet ahead of time. The packet will include examples for our discussions as well as copies of each other’s manuscripts. (Arrive on the 15th for this workshop. We will start the morning of the 16th and end the afternoon of the 17th.)

March 18-20: Regular workshops with Nance (poetry) OR Patricia (fiction).
Please note: we will start with an opening night session on Saturday, March 17 so arrive anytime before 4 p.m. on the 17th. There will be a poetry manuscript exchange that evening. Fiction writers will exchange mss. through the mail in early March. The workshops will begin the morning of the 18th and run through the afternoon of the 20th. Plan to leave anytime after 6 p.m. on March 20.

COSTS
Cost for the March 16-17 Hybrid Forms Workshop is $300.00 (tuition only).

Cost for the March 18-20 Regular Workshop is $400.00 (tuition only).

Cost for both workshops is $650 (tuition only.)

A deposit of $200 to reserve your spot (in one or both workshops) is due by February 1, 07. Please make checks payable to ACES (which stands for Arts & Community Enrichment Services), and mail to: ACES, 10201 E. Fourth Ave., Spokane Valley, WA 99206.



Selected Works

Fiction
Curtain Creek Farm
Inter-connected stories, each told by a resident of a commune in Eastern Washington.
Poetry book
Beside Ourselves
“These poems work, walk, shine, splash, and heal.”
--Tomaz Salamun
Short Story
Black Fields, Black Horses
Originally appeared in AGNI


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