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"I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets" — John Glenn
"Ha, he should have taken my workshop." —C.M. Mayo
 Click here to view C.M. Mayo's workshop schedule SPRING 2012 C.M. Mayo will be giving two workshops, both on May 5th, at the Writer's Center in Bethesda MD, just outside Washington DC.  May
5, 2012Podcasting for Writers (10 am - 12pm) The Writer's Center Bethesda MD (just outside Washington DC) Audio podcasts, on-line digital files, not only serve as an important promotional tool for writers, but they can be storytelling vehicles themselves, whether as stand-alone works or complements to text. This workshop provides an introduction and overview of podcasting for writers, from basic concepts to nuts-and-bolts tips. The goal is that by the end of the workshop, you will be able to go home and use your iPhone or digital recorder and computer to generate and then post a simple podcast on-line. >>Listen to C.M. Mayo's podcasts here. >>REGISTER HERE  May
5, 2012 How (and How Not) to Write Dialogue (1 - 5 pm) One of the most powerfully vivid ways to show character, relationship, conflict, and/or mood is through the use of dialogue. For both beginning and advanced fiction and nonfiction writers, this workshop focuses on the use and misuse of dialogue, with a series of mini-lectures interspersed with brief exercises. The goal is by the end of the workshop, your dialogue will be of notably higher quality. >>Read C.M. Mayo's writing, which has plenty of dialogue, here. >>REGISTER HERE. |
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Mexico
City
Listen in to
C.M. Mayo's podcasts: 
"A man will turn over half a library to make one book" — Samuel Johnson
"Follow your own star" — Dante Alighieri **"But bring your notebook" — C.M. Mayo
 A new series
of one-day
writing workshops with award-winning fiction and literary travel
writer C.M. Mayo. (For more
about her work, visit her www.cmmayo.com.)Techniques of Fiction A one day workshop in Mexico City For both beginning and experienced fiction writers working in English, "Techniques of Fiction" focuses on generating new material with exercises addressing specificity, point of view... READ MORE Flash Fiction A one day workshop in Mexico City Flash, or micro-fictions are stories as short as six and as long as, say, 1,000 words. Though a genre with a distinguished tradition, flash fiction is perfectly suited for blogging and podcasting. For both beginning and advanced writers... READ MORE Literary Travel Writing A one day workshop in Mexico City Take your travel writing to another level: the literary, which is to say, giving the reader the novelistic experience of actually traveling there with you. For both beginning and advanced writers... READ MORE For C.M. Mayo's other events (readings, book signings, writers conferences) visit www.cmmayo.com >>>Join the mailing list for updates about new workshops About C.M. Mayo's One Day Workshops  Uniquely geared toward
both beginning and advanced writers, C.M. Mayo's one-day creative writing workshops emphasize
techniques for tapping into creativity, and specific aspects
of craft. As at the Bethesda, Maryland Writers Center where Mayo has taught
highly popular workshops since 1999, Mayo does not critique manuscripts
but rather offers a series of mini-lectures interspersed with
exercises, readings, and discussion. The goal is that by the
end of the workshop, your writing will be of notably higher quality.About C.M. Mayo   C.M.
Mayo
is the author of the novel The
Last Prince of the Mexican Empire (Unbridled Books, 2009); a travel memoir,
Miraculous
Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the
Other Mexico
(Milkweed Editions), and Sky Over El Nido (University of Georgia
Press), which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.
Her many other awards include three Lowell Thomas Awards for
travel writing, three Washington Writing Prizes, and numerous
fellowships, among them, to the Bread Loaf Writers Conference,
MacDowell Colony, Virginia
Center for Creative Arts,
and Yaddo. Her work   has appeared in many
outstanding literary journals, among them, Chelsea, Creative
Nonfiction,
Kenyon
Review,
North American Review, Massachusetts
Review,
Paris Review, Southwest Review and Tin House. An avid translator
of contemporary Mexican literature, she is also founding editor
of Tameme and editor of Mexico:
A Traveler's Literary Companion, an anthology of Mexican fiction and
literary prose. She has taught creative writing workshops at
the Writers
Center
since 1999. For more about C.M. Mayo and her work, visit www.cmmayo.com>>>Join the mailing list for updates about new workshops |
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