Write On returns to the Association of Writers and Writing Programs’ (AWP) annual conference. Meet Executive Director Al DeGenova and Founding and Artistic Director Jerod Santek in the bookfair at Booth 710. Find out about our writers’ residency programs; fellowship opportunities; writers’ retreats; conferences and workshops and much more!

Great work is often unrecognizable from an author’s first draft. How do you know what to keep and what to discard when approaching revisions? In this session, we will discuss the revision process, share strategies for diagnosing problems in our work, and explore techniques that will bring greater clarity and purpose to the next draft.…

Have you always wanted to invent your own poetic form but don’t know where to start? Featuring the duplex, the golden shovel, the sonnenizio, and the American sentence acrostic — all forms invented by contemporary living poets — this intensive breaks down the process of formal invention and reveals the process behind the product. Beginning…

Narrative medicine is a process by which patients, providers, and caregivers can work through the emotions and experience of a serious or chronic illness. This special workshop is open to all who are interested in chronicling their own health care journeys through essay writing. Jennifer Frank will share examples from her own essays as well…

Many people have stories to tell about illness, whether it’s visible or invisible, chronic or an era in their lives. Jumi Bello will introduce participants to various writers, both living and dead, who write on the notions of illness and the different forms they’ve embodied in expressing their experience. She will then guide participants in…

Some of our most profound experiences are gracefully simple and some are stranger than fiction. How do we make sense of our life experiences and how do we record them? What voice do we use to tell our life story and what format? After we muster the courage and humor to record our memoirs, how…

Join us for a fun and highly interactive program that provides guidance, helpful tips, constructive advice, and a methodology and framework to help you write various types of songs. It is for all levels of musical aptitude including those who sometimes get stuck writing songs or have always wanted to write songs but have never…

Some of our most profound experiences are gracefully simple and some are stranger than fiction. How do we make sense of our life experiences and how do we record them? What voice do we use to tell our life story and what format? After we muster the courage and humor to record our memoirs, how…

Join author Sally Collins for an afternoon of tapping into your own experiences and memories to create compelling, complex, and authentic fiction, no matter the genre. “Write what you know,” the old saying goes — but sometimes it’s a struggle. Over the course of the workshop, you will examine the fiction of authors throughout the…

Telling stories is something that we all do. Storytelling is a wonderful way to think about who you are, what you have done, and what is next for you in your life. Think of it as an organized reflection on your life. Prompts and presentations will stimulate memories and, together, we will write and tell…