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Inprint Summer 2009 Writers Workshops

Presented by Inprint at Inprint House

June 1-June 11, 2009

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Inprint’s Summer 2009 Writers Workshops offer Houstonians a chance to study creative writing with the city’s finest published writers. Eight-week workshops begin in early June.

Courses in fiction, poetry, playwriting, and a special daytime memoir workshop, as well as a tuition-free workshop for Houston-area K-12 teachers, are available. Limited to 12 participants, workshops cost $275. Each workshop meets for three hours once a week. Workshops are held at Inprint House, 1520 W. Main (near The Menil Collection). The workshop for teachers is part of Inprint’s Teachers-as-Writers Workshops (TAWW) program, underwritten by The Kinder Foundation. Most workshops are held on weekday evenings from 6:00 - 9:00 pm; the Daytime Memoir workshop is held during the day.

These workshops are designed for individuals exploring creative writing for the first time as well as those who want to refine their work for publication. The workshops are co-sponsored by the prestigious University of Houston Creative Writing Program (UH CWP) and are led by experienced, published writers, as well as by alumni and students from the UH CWP. The playwriting workshop is co-sponsored by Mildred’s Umbrella Theatre Company.

Each workshop involves in-class writing exercises, assigned readings, discussions, and a time for constructive and supportive feedback of each participant’s work.

About workshop instructors: John Harvey (Playwriting) serves as Resident Playwright for Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company and Artist in Residence at the UH Honors College; Peter 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 Houston 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, Brazil, and Japan, has published short stories here and abroad (MFA, UH CWP); Oindrila Mukherjee (TAWW Fiction), a former journalist and literary editor, received the Inprint Diana P. Hobby Prize in Fiction in 2007 (PhD, UH CWP).