CALLING ALL RPCV WRITERS!
Fall RPCV Writers Workshop
Are you writing a novel, a memoir, a scholarly essay, poems, and/or short stories? Whether what you’re working on is about the Peace Corps or not, you are invited to the Second Peace Corps Writers Workshop this October on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland.
The Workshop, organized by Peace Corps Worldwide and supported by the Peace Corps Fund, will be led by Mark Brazaitis (Guatemala 1991-93), an English professor at West Virginia University, where he directs the Creative Writing Program and the West Virginia Writers’ Workshop. The author of eight books, including The River of Lost Voices: Stories from Guatemala, Mark wrote the script for the award-winning Peace Corps film How Far Are You Willing to Go to Make a Difference? His stories, poems, and essays have appeared in The Sun, Ploughshares, Witness, Guernica, Michigan Quarterly Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, Glamour, USA Today, and elsewhere. Two other accomplished RPCV writers to be announced will join Mark on the faculty.
For questions about how the Workshop will be run, please email Mark at mbrazait@wvu.edu
The Workshop will include a publishing panel in which participants will learn the do’s and don’ts of the business side of the craft. Bring your questions about agents, editors, literary journals, and anything else related to publishing your work.
The setting is gorgeous, and the company will be lively, supportive, and stimulating. Sign up now!
This sounds amazing. This is probably a good weekend for many. I wish it did not already have another annual family obligation, always on this weekend. Hoping for next year!