Sunday, November 19, 1:00pm - 2:30pm (EST)
Join us on Zoom TODAY - Sunday, November 19 (1 - 2:30 pm ET) for our annual virtual Manuscript Program Open House!
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The event features short readings from our program instructors (bios below) and some of the talented writers of our 2023 cohort, as well as a brief introduction to each section of the Manuscript Program! The open house is an opportunity to meet the program instructors, current students, and ask any questions you have before (or after) applying! We recommend reading through the Manuscript Program information first (on our website, at www.PioneerValleyWriters.org, under Manuscript Program) and coming with any questions you have, either for a particular instructor, or about the program as a whole.
What: PVWW Manuscript Program Open House!
When: Sunday, November 19 (1 - 2pm ET)
Where: Online via Zoom
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
PVWW's 10-Month Manuscript Program offers small, intensive, virtual workshops for writers working to make significant headway on a book-length project over the course of ten months (March - December). Workshop groups meet monthly (with the exception of two months, when they meet twice) and offer a number of asynchronous ways of support and connection in between meetings, including a virtual Google Classroom space, monthly Accountability Buddies, meetings with the instructor, and more. The program offers rigorous, comprehensive craft instruction and guidance, and seeks to create a vibrant, tight-knit community of support for writers as they complete their manuscripts. You can learn more about the program, including details about all it offers, at www.PioneerValleyWriters.com, under "Manuscript Program."
PROGRAM INSTRUCTORS
BLAIR HURLEY (Novel First Draft Instructor) is the author of THE DEVOTED, which was longlisted for The Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. Her second novel, MINOR PROPHETS which was released earlier this year (2023). Her work is published in New England Review, Electric Literature, The Georgia Review, Guernica, Paris Review Daily, West Branch, and elsewhere. She is a Pushcart Prize winner and an ASME Fiction award finalist. Visit her online and learn about her work at www.BlairHurley.com
LIZ HARMER (Novel Revision Instructor) is the author of the novels The Amateurs (2018) and Strange Loops (2023). Her stories, essays, and poems have been published at the Globe & Mail, The Walrus, Best Canadian Stories, The New Quarterly, Hazlitt, Image Journal, and elsewhere. A recent fellow at the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences, she was also the runner-up for the Mitchell Prize in poetry. She’s the winner of a National Magazine Award for Personal Journalism, a CRAFT Literary Creative Nonfiction Award, and the WAGs-ProQuest Award Distinguished Masters Thesis, among other prizes. She teaches in the MFA program at Chapman University. Visit her online and learn more about her work at www.LizHarmer.com.
KIM ADRIAN (Memoir Instructor) is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir, The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet, Sock (a Bloomsbury's Object Lessons book), and Dear Knausgaard, which James Wood (literary critic for The New Yorker) described as “a delight from start to finish.” She edited The Shell Game: Writers Play with Borrowed Forms, and wrote the libretto for the chamber opera "The Strange Child." Several of her short stories and essays have been listed as Notable or Distinguished in the Best American Essays, Best American Short Stories, and Pushcart Prize anthologies. Her work has garnered many awards and recognitions, including, most recently, a fellowship from the Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus in Bavaria, Germany. Visit her online and learn about her work at www.KimAdrian.com.
CAROLYN ZAIKOWSKI (Poetry/Hybrid and CNF Instructor) is the author of the hybrid novels In Dream, I Dance by Myself, and I Collapse (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016) and A Child Is Being Killed (Aqueous Books, 2013). Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in The Washington Post, Denver Quarterly, The Rumpus, PANK, West Branch, DIAGRAM, Everyday Feminism, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and is currently an English professor and volunteer death doula. Visit her online and learn about her work at www.CarolynZaikowski.com
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