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INSTRUCTOR: Laura Pritchett

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Want to write and submit a personal essay to a magazines or journals? This one-afternoon workshop is designed to focus on the essentials of turning personal experience into compelling narrative – and readying it for submission. We’ll be concentrating on how to 1) tell through the use of story and 2) make that story have “universality” (as in, how to make it matter to others). We will also be discussing nonfiction fundamentals: the central dramatic questions and themes, how to craft scenes, ways to build tension, and the ever-tricky business of pacing through the balanced use of showing and telling.
All levels of nonfiction writers welcome. Bring an idea and/or a work in progress.

The instructor, Laura Pritchett, has published over fifty personal essays in various magazines, including The Sun, Orion, High Country News, High Desert Journal, Natural Resources Journal, Matter Journal, Colorado Review, 5280 (Denver's Magazine), and a bunch of books. This is how she makes her living. She is the author/editor of five books.

Pritchett received her B.A. and M.A. in English at Colorado State University and her Ph.D. in Contemporary American Literature/Creative Writing at Purdue University. She teaches writing around the country and is a member of the faculty at Denver’s Lighthouse Writers Workshop. She is a board member of the Rocky Mountain Land Library and an advisory board member to the Colorado Art Ranch.  Pritchett has served as the judge for several literary contests, including the 2005 PEN USA Award for Fiction and the Colorado Book Awards.