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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Inprint Summer 2009 Writers Workshops\nEvent Url: h
 ttp://www.artshound.com/event/detail/23993/Inprint_Summer_2009_Writers_Wor
 kshops\nEvent Date Begin: 2009-06-01\nEvent Date End: 2009-06-11\n\nInprin
 t's Summer 2009 Writers Workshops offer Houstonians a chance to study crea
 tive writing with the city's finest published writers. Eight-week workshop
 s begin in early June.\nCourses in fiction\, poetry\, playwriting\, and a 
 special daytime memoir workshop\, as well as a tuition-free workshop for H
 ouston-area K-12 teachers\, are available. Limited to 12 participants\, wo
 rkshops cost $275. Each workshop meets for three hours once a week. Worksh
 ops are held at Inprint House\, 1520 W. Main (near The Menil Collection). 
 The workshop for teachers is part of Inprint's Teachers-as-Writers Worksho
 ps (TAWW) program\, underwritten by The Kinder Foundation. Most workshops 
 are held on weekday evenings from 6:00 - 9:00 pm\; the Daytime Memoir work
 shop is held during the day.\nThese workshops are designed for individuals
  exploring creative writing for the first time as well as those who want t
 o refine their work for publication. The workshops are co-sponsored by the
  prestigious University of Houston Creative Writing Program (UH CWP) and a
 re led by experienced\, published writers\, as well as by alumni and stude
 nts from the UH CWP. The playwriting workshop is co-sponsored by Mildred's
  Umbrella Theatre Company.\nEach workshop involves in-class writing exerci
 ses\, assigned readings\, discussions\, and a time for constructive and su
 pportive feedback of each participant's work.\nAbout workshop instructors:
  John Harvey (Playwriting) serves as Resident Playwright for Mildred's Umb
 rella Theater Company and Artist in Residence at the UH Honors College\; P
 eter Hyland (Poetry)\, author of the chapbook Elegy to the Idea of a Child
 \, has also had poems in American Literary Review\, Ecotone\, New South\, 
 and other journals (MFA\, UH CWP)\; Leah Lax (Memoir)\, librettist for Hou
 ston Grand Opera's The Refuge\, which was also broadcast nationally on NPR
 \, just completed her memoir What Was She Thinking? A Hassidic Love Story 
 (MFA\, UH CWP)\; Gabriela Maya (Fiction)\, who has lived in Sweden\, Brazi
 l\, and Japan\, has published short stories here and abroad (MFA\, UH CWP)
 \; Oindrila Mukherjee (TAWW Fiction)\, a former journalist and literary ed
 itor\, received the Inprint Diana P. Hobby Prize in Fiction in 2007 (PhD\,
  UH CWP).\n\nStart time: Most workshops run from 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm\; the D
 aytime Memoir workshops takes place during the day.
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SUMMARY:Inprint Summer 2009 Writers Workshops
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