University of Arizona Poetry Center presents
Tucson Festival of Books 2011 Writing Workshops

At the Tucson Festival of Books, the University of Arizona presents three dynamic writing workshops. Experienced writers and teachers will share writing techniques, discuss their personal experiences of the writing life, and offer you invitations to get in touch with your innate creativity. Our panelists include instructors from the Poetry Center’s community Classes and Workshops program, and faculty of the University of Arizona Creative Writing program.

These events, like all Festival events, are free and open to the public. Questions? Contact Cybele Knowles at knowles@email.arizona.edu, or 520-626-1185.

Idea Intensive: Taking Note
with Laynie Browne, Alison Hawthorne Deming, and Barbara Henning
Sunday, March 13, 2:30 pm, ILC 137

How do writers build their repertoire of ideas? How can we collect our observations in order to work them into our own writing? This workshop will aim to help writers of all levels to generate and capture ideas through what they see on a day-to-day basis, what they remember, or what they can imagine. We’ll build off of these ideas with some writing exercises, and then discuss ways to push the work further.