"But bring your notebook" — C.M. Mayo
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 A new series
of one-day writing
workshops with award-winning fiction and literary travel writer
C.M. Mayo. (For more about
her work, visit her website
and read the interview in Inside Mexico.)Flash Fiction A one day workshop in Mexico City 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... READ MORE Techniques of Fiction A one day workshop in Mexico City 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... READ MORE Literary Travel Writing A one day workshop in Mexico City Take your travel writing to another level: the literary, which is to say, giving the reader the novelistic experience of actually traveling there with you. For both beginning and advanced writers... READ MORE More workshops will be announced for the summer and fall 2008. For C.M. Mayo's other events (readings, book signings, writers conferences) visit www.cmmayo.com >>>Join the mailing list for updates about new workshops About C.M. Mayo's One Day Workshops  Uniquely geared toward
both beginning and advanced writers, C.M. Mayo's one-day creative writing workshops emphasize
techniques for tapping into creativity, and specific aspects
of craft. As at the Bethesda, Maryland Writers Center where Mayo has taught
highly popular workshops since 1999, Mayo does not critique manuscripts
but rather offers a series of mini-lectures interspersed with
exercises, readings, and discussion. The goal is that by the
end of the workshop, your writing will be of notably higher quality.About C.M. Mayo   C.M.
Mayo
is the author of the forthcoming novel The
Last Prince of the Mexican Empire; Miraculous Air:
Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other
Mexico
(Milkweed Editions), and Sky Over El Nido (University of Georgia
Press), which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.
Her many other awards include three Lowell Thomas Awards for
travel writing, three Washington Writing Prizes, and numerous
fellowships, among them, to the Bread Loaf Writers Conference,
MacDowell Colony, Virginia
Center for Creative Arts,
and Yaddo. Her work   has appeared in many
outstanding literary journals, among them, Chelsea, Creative
Nonfiction,
Kenyon
Review,
North American Review, Massachusetts
Review,
Paris Review, Southwest Review and Tin House. An avid translator
of contemporary Mexican literature, she is also founding editor
of Tameme and editor of Mexico:
A Traveler's Literary Companion, an anthology of Mexican fiction and
literary prose. She has taught creative writing workshops at
the Writers
Center
since 1999. For more about C.M. Mayo and her work, visit www.cmmayo.com>>>Join the mailing list for updates about new workshops |
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