You want writing to be a priority in your life, but you keep getting side-tracked?
You wish you could focus on your writing, but you keep self-sabotaging?
You want to move from writing-as-hobby to writing-as-profession, but you don’t know how?
Lauren Kessler (www.laurenkessler.com <http://www.laurenkessler.com> ) and Thomas Hager (www.thomashager.net <http://www.thomashager.net> ) – who between them have written 18 books – will help you get serious about your writing life, from daily inspiration to annual budgeting. This one-day, high-energy workshop – with exercises and expert tips – will inspire you to up your game, whether it’s fiction, nonfiction or poetry. Learn from two writers in the trenches who have weathered the storms…and crafted successful writing lives for themselves as they raised three children.
Lauren Kessler, Author and Professor at the University of Oregon
Lauren Kessler is the author of 12 books, including 6 works of narrative nonfiction. Her newest book, just released, is My Teenage Werewolf: A Mother, A Daughter, A journey through the Thickets of Adolescence. She is also the author of Pacific Northwest Book Award and Oregon Book Award winner Dancing with Rose; Washington Post bestseller Clever Girl; Los Angeles Times bestseller The Happy Bottom Riding Club and Oregon Book Award-winner Stubborn Twig, which was chosen to be the book for all Oregonians to read on the occasion of the sesquecentennial last year.
Tom Hager is the author of six nonfiction books and the former publisher of the University of Oregon
Tom Hager, Author
Press. His most recent book, The Alchemy of Air, was named a “Best Book of 2008″ by Kirkus Reviews, and is a national finalist in Border’s “Original Voices” award program.
Saturday, August 21st from 10-3 Cost: $50.
Download and complete the Crafting Workshop Registration Form, and mail it in with your check to register.