Words that Sing II: Advanced Workshop with Mary Nilsen
Sunday, June 24 - Saturday, June 30, 2012
Mary Nilsen will be challenging participants to learn new skills and practice them in daily exercises. Metaphor will be probed, braided, extended and treasured. Those assembled will encourage and challenge each other, pressing for greater individual excellence.
Class size is limited to 12. The Collegeville Institute will cover travel expenses to and from the event, as well as room and board for the duration of the workshop. Though participants will share Institute apartment space, each will be provided with a private bedroom.
Leading the workshop is Mary Ylvisaker Nilsen (M.A.W., The University of Iowa; M.T.S., Harvard Divinity School). Mary has taught creative writing courses since 1982, first at The University of Iowa and then in the Iowa Summer Writing Festival. She also teaches prose style and metaphor classes in Des Moines, where she lives and owns a small publishing company. She is the author of a number of books, including her most recent-a memoir: Beyond the Dead End: Letters to My Father. Her complete publishing résumé can be found on her website: www.zionpublishing.org