VETERANS MIDWEST WRITING WORKSHOP

Emma Rainy (MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop) is gathering several writers, poets and play writes to put on a workshop for emerging writers over the winter break at Iowa. We want to spread the word that this course is free and hope to supplement the food and accommodations of the students over the weekend.
Any assistance you can provide in getting the word out to veterans who want to write would be great! We are on a very short timeline

Registration is online at the site below

VETERANS MIDWEST WRITING WORKSHOP

@ The University of IOWA

January 15-17, 2010

Open to all current and former military personal

Midwest writing workshop

We each have a story to tell. And this free weekend writing workshop will help you learn how to tell it well. By using writing exercises to explore wartime experiences-the fear, the boredom, anxieties, thrills, brutality and tears-we learn how to write a story and make it compelling. Workshop participants will explore the many approaches one can take to writing about the self and will produce personnel stories by the end of the weekend. Opportunities to read each other's work (both as a class "workshop" and one-on-one with professional writers) as well as a two-week online follow up, will help continue the writing and revising process. No writing experience is needed to attend this workshop.

Where: University of Iowa campus, Iowa City, Iowa

When: Friday, Saturday and Sunday, January 15-17

starting at 7:00pm
This workshop is FREE! (Free lunches will be provided Saturday and Sunday)


What you'll need: A pen, pad of paper (or laptop)


Contact information:

Emma Rainey, MFA Nonfiction Writing Program
641-919-2654

John D. Mikelson, Veterans Advisor
University of Iowa Veterans Center