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Name Genre Upcoming Workshops Short Bio Ackerman, Kenneth - Narrative History and Biography: Works in Progress Ken Ackerman, a writer and attorney in Washington, D.C., is a 25-year veteran of senior positions in Congress, the executive branch, and financial regulation. As a writer, he has written dozens of articles and has authored four published books: The Gold Ring: Jim Fisk, Jay Gould, and Black Friday 1869; Dark Horse: The Surprise Election and Political Murder of James A. Garfield; Boss Tweed: the Corrupt Pol who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York; and Young J. Edgar: Hoover, the Red Scare, and the Assault on Civil Liberties. For more detail, visit his web page at www.KennethAckerman.com ...more Ager, Deborah - Risky Writing: The Short Poem Deborah Ager’s poems and reviews have appeared in, or are forthcoming from, New England Review, Georgia Review, The New England Review, Quarterly West, The Bloomsbury Review, and elsewhere. She was a Tennessee Williams scholar in poetry at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and has been awarded residencies at the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is the founder of 32 Poems Magazine. ...more Alexander Jr, James - Speechwriting James Alexander has been writing professionally for more than 30 years, including eight years in the Clinton-Administration as a Cabinet-level speechwriter and as an outreach specialist. He worked several years on Capitol Hill as a press secretary and op-ed writer. As an op-ed ghostwriter, he has penned more than 50 op-eds for key government and political figures, publishing in such notable newspapers as The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. ...more ALLEN, STEPHANIE T Stephanie Allen's short story collection, A Place between Stations (2003), was a finalist for the AWP Award in Short Fiction and the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award in Debut Fiction. Her fiction has appeared in the Massachusetts Review, the Connecticut Review, Water~Stone, the Crab Orchard Review, and others, including the anthology Enhanced Gravity: More Fiction from Washington Area Women Writers. She has been awarded the Dorothy Norton Clay fellowship from the Mary Anderson Center for the Arts and grants from the Prince George's and Maryland State Arts Councils. She holds an M.F.A. from the University of Maryland, College Park, and has taught fiction there and at Loyola College in Baltimore. ...more AMATO, MARY Fiction Poetry Children & Teens Adults Write for Children Playwriting Songwriting MA, is an award-winning children's book author, playwright, and song writer. Her books have been translated into foreign languages, optioned for television, produced onstage, featured in KidsPost, and nominated for the children's choice awards in many states. See www.maryamato for more info. ...more Ambroggio, Luis Alberto Luis Alberto Ambroggio, an internationally known Hispanic-American poet born in Argentina is the author of eleven collections of poetry. His poetry and essays have appeared in newspapers, magazines (including Passport, Scholastic, International Poetry Review, and Hispanic Culture Review), poetry anthologies (DC Poets Against the War, Cool Salsa), textbooks (Paisajes, Bridges to Literature, Voices: Breaking Down Barriers) and award-winning electronic collections of Latino Literature (Alexander Street Press) ...more Archila, William - Poetry of Place William Archila earned his MFA in poetry from the University of Oregon. His poems have been published in The Georgia Review, AGNl, Poetry International, The Los Angeles Review, Notre Dame Review, Crab Orchard Review, Poet Lore, Poetry Daily, Portland Review and Blue Mesa Review among others. His poems also will be appearing in Eclipse. His first book The Art of Exile is the recent winner of the Emerging Writer Fellowship Award from the Writer’s Center. ...more Ayala, Naomi - First Fire: Generating Fresh Ideas for New and Veteran Poets Naomi Ayala is the author of one book of poetry, Wild Animals on the Moon, which was selected by the New York City Public Library as one of 1999's Books for the Teen Age. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies around the U.S. and beyond, including Callaloo, Village Voice, The Caribbean Writer, The Massachusetts Review, Red River, Potomac Review, Hanging Loose, and Terra Incognita. ...more BAINGANA, DOREEN Fiction Poetry Short story Memoir Radio Novel Nonfiction Publishing - Introduction to Fiction - Introduction to Fiction - Introduction to Fiction Doreen Baingana's short story collection, Tropical Fish: Stories Out of Entebbe, was published in January 2005. She won the Washington Independent Writers Fiction Prize, 2004, the 2003 AWP Award in Short Fiction, and a Commonwealth Prize in 2006. Her stories have twice been finalists for the Caine Prize and she has been a Writer in Residence at the University of Maryland, where she received an MFA. Her fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, Chelsea, African American Review, and other journals. ...more BAUER, MARY Mary Blandin Bauer served on the ALSC/ALA committee that awarded the Newbery medal to Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinnelli. She is a Children’s Librarian who studied with Natalie Goldberg. As a librarian, she specialized in children’s literature and work with children and families. ...more BAUSCH, ROBERT Fiction Short story Novel - Creative Fiction: Internet Second Session - Creative Fiction: Second Session - Creative Fiction - Creative Fiction: Internet Robert Bausch is the author of six novels and one collection of short stories. He has taught at the University of Virginia, The American University, Johns Hopkins University, and George Mason University. His fourth novel, A Hole in the Earth, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Washington Post Favorite Book of the Year. He was awarded the Fellowship of Southern Writer's Award for fiction for his fifth novel, The Gypsy Man. His most recent novel, Out of Season, was published in the fall of 2005. ...more BAXTER, KHRIS Screenwriting Playwriting Speechwriting - Building Dramatic Scenes that Work - The Art and Craft of Screenwriting- Glen Echo - Feature Film Screenwriting - The Art and Craft of Screenplay Adaptation - The Art and Craft of Screenwriting - The Art and Craft of Screenwriting - Story and Structure for Screenwriters and Novelists - Story and Structure for Screenwriters and Novelists - Building Dramatic Scenes that Work - Dramatic Storytelling for Trial Lawyers - How to Pitch to Publishers, Producers, and Agents Khris Baxter is a screenwriter, producer, and script consultant. He teaches screenwriting at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, MD, Gettysburg College, and private workshops throughout the Washington, D.C. Metro area. His body of work includes eight optioned screenplays and one produced film. He is a member of the Virginia Film Office and a judge for the annual Virginia Screenwriting Competition. He lives in Reston, Virginia. ...more Beasley, Sandra - From Heart to Page: Writing About Family - Poets Teaching Poets: Theory & Practice - My Poems: What to do Next Sandra Beasley is the author of I Was the Jukebox, winner of the 2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize, selected by Joy Harjo and published by W. W. Norton. Her first collection, Theories of Falling, won the 2007 New Issues Poetry Prize. Her nonfiction has been featured in the Washington Post Magazine and she is working on Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life, forthcoming from Crown. She lives in Washington, DC, where she received a 2010 DCCAH Individual Artist Fellowship. ...more BECKER, ANNE - Making it Whole: Chapbooks, Suites, and Longer Poems Anne Becker, poet, producer of Watershed Tapes, and Maryland State Arts Council grantee, received her MA from Johns Hopkins. She is author of The Transmutation Notebooks: Poems in the Voices of Charles and Emma Darwin; her work has appeared in Antioch Review, Gargoyle, Washington Review, and Southern Poetry Review. Ms. Becker was recently named Poet Laureate of Takoma Park. ...more Besner, Arthur - Writing the Report - Writing the Information Memorandum - Writing the Decision Memorandum Arthur Besner has more than 30 years experience at the U.S. Department of Education, where, among other things, he served wrote speeches delivered by the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights and the Department Secretary that were given to national education, civil rights, and legal organizations. He also designed and delivered an ongoing training course, “Writing Memoranda and Reports,” for Departmental employees. He teaches at Montgomery College ...more Blair, Margaret Fiction Screenwriting Adults Write for Children Novel Nonfiction Margaret Blair is the author of Brothers at War, House of Spies, and The Sand Castle, 3 Civil War time travel books for young adults; in addition to a nonfiction book, The Roaring 20, published by National Geographic. She has written both historical and contemporary screenplays, is a TV interviewer, former journalist, and has lectured at the Smithsonian on writing historical fiction. ...more Blake, Sarah Sarah Blake has a PhD in Victorian literature and is the author of a book of poetry, Full Turn, and the novels Grange House and The Postmistress. Her essays and reviews have appeared in Good Housekeeping, US News and World Report, and The Chicago Tribune. She has taught seminars and workshops in literature and in fiction at New York University, The University of Maryland, The George Washington University and at The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. ...more BLANK, MARTIN Martin Blank was educated at the University of MD and the Yale School of Drama. His plays include: BIG JOHN (D.C. Arts Center), AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, (Yale Drama School), READ MY LIPS (New Gate Theatre), SCENES FROM LIFE IN AMERICA, (Ensemble Studio Theatre Octoberfest), THE CALIFORNIA KID, (Arizona Jewish Theatre), and THE LAW OF RETURN (Center Stage Theatre Jerusalem) and (Maryland Ensemble Theatre). His first screenplay based on his play, THE LAW OF RETURN, sold to Hollywood. Producing and directing credits include: American Jewish Theater and American Place Theater, New York City, as well as Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Literary Manager, and Theater J, Founding Artistic Director. , ...more BLOCK, HILDIE Fiction Short story Memoir Mixed genre Children & Teens Novel - Writing Fiction: An Online Workshop - New Years Resolution Workshop - Personal Essay Writing for High School Students - Personal Essay Writing for High School Students - The Process of Fiction - Deep Fiction Online Hildie S. Block, MA writing, Johns Hopkins. Writing instructor at American and George Washington Universities. She's the coeditor of *NOT WHAT I EXPECTED: the unpredictable road from womanhood to motherhood* published in 2007. She's published about 50 short stories in literary magazines like Gargoyle, Cortland Review, The First Line, San Francisco Review, LIterary Mama, Motherverse, The Imperfect Parent and elsewhere. Her essays have appeared places like PopMatters, In the Fray, Organic Family and elsewhere. Her blog for writers is http://hildieblog.livejournal.com ...more BORCHELT, RICK Rick Borchelt is communications director for the Genetics and Public Policy Center at The Johns Hopkins University. His work at the Center includes message development, media relations, public engagement, and strategic communications. He also is Lecturer in science policy and politics in the Hopkins Advanced Academic Programs division. He has had a varied career in science and medical communications and science public policy, including stints as media relations director for the National Academy of Sciences; press secretary for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology; special assistant for public affairs in the Executive Office of The President during the Clinton Administration; director of communications for the Department of Energy's Office of Science; and director of communications and public affairs at The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at MIT. He was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2004, and is a past chair of AAAS Section Y (General Interest in Science and Engineering). He is an advisor to the NSF-funded Nanoscale Informal Science Education (NISE) project, and a committee member for the National Academy of Engineering’s study of public communication about engineering. He serves as commentary editor for the peer-reviewed Sage journal Science Communication. ...more Braaf, Ellen Ellen R. Braaf: MS, freelancer, ghostwriter, reviewer, teacher, has published fiction, nonfiction, and humor for children and adults. Author of six science books for PowerKids Press, Ellen has been a columnist and feature writer for ASK magazine (Arts and Sciences for Kids) since it was launched by the Cricket Group and Smithsonian magazine in 2002. She serves as Mid-Atlantic Regional Advisor for the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators and as Co-chair of Northern Virginia Writers. ...more BROWN, PETER Fiction Short story Mixed genre Novel Publishing - Characters are Everything - A Short Story Becomes Cinema Peter Brown's novel RUTHIE BLACK, (Argonne House Press, July/2006) was reviewed favorably in the journal Pleiades in 2007, and was a "Reviewer's Choice" in The Midwest Book Review. It is based upon his short story that won 1st prize in the 2004 O. Henry Festival competition. View Mr. Brown's TV interview on Atlanta Public TV's "Writers In Focus" by logging on to Mr. Brown's website: www.pbrown.us. ...more BURNS, CAROLE Carole Burns's book, Off the Page: Writers Talk About Beginnings, Endings and Everything in Between, is being published in December by W. W. Norton. The book is based on interviews that she conducted for washingtonpost.com, with writers including Martin Amis, A.S. Byatt, Paul Auster, Alice McDermott and others. She has published several short stories and is at work on a novel. ...more CANN, DANA - The Short Story Dana Cann, MA, has stories appearing in The Sun, The Gettysburg Review, Bethesda Magazine, Fifth Wednesday Journal, The Florida Review, and Blackbird, among other journals. He's received a Pushcart nomination and fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. ...more CARLSON, NANCY NAOMI - Getting Published: Hands-on Advice Nancy Naomi Carlson, Ph.D., is an associate editor for Tupelo Press. Nominated five times for a Pushcart Prize, she was the winner of the Texas Review Press' Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize, as well as the winner of the 2005 Tennessee Chapbook Prize. She is also the author of Kings Highway. A contest winner for Literal Latte's Food Verse, her poems have also appeared in such journals as Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, The Southern Review and The Greensboro Review. Her translations of Rene Char have appeared in Denver Quarterly and Colorado Review. ...more CARPENTER, MARY - Transitions Mary Carpenter, MA in journalism with 25 years as a published journalist for Time, the International Herald Tribune, The Washington Post, and women's magazines. Her children's biography of Temple Grandin was published in 2003. ...more CARROLL, KENNETH - Teen Creative Writing - Teen Creative Writing - Teen Creative Writing Kenneth Carroll is the Director of DC WritersCorps, and past president of the African-American Writers Guild and the African American Cultural Arts Center (8Rock). His numerous editorials, articles, reviews, poems, plays, essays, and short stories have appeared in dozens of leading publications. His first book of poetry is So What: For The White Dude Who Said This Ain't Poetry. , ...more Casamassima, Christophe - The Myth of Writers Block: Experiments in Reading, Writing, and Thinking Christophe Casamassima is a founder of Towson ARTS Collective, where he is Director of Literary Arts and editor of Furniture Press. He also teaches in the English department at Towson University. He has recently completed the Proteus Cycle, which includes The Proteus (Moria Books, 2008), Joys: A Catalogue of Disappointments (BlazeVOX, 2008), and Ore (twentythreebooks, 2009). His new books, UNTILTED and Time/Being, will be published by Moria Books and Xerolage, respectively, in late 2009. ...more CASSIDY, ANNE Nonfiction Essay Anne Cassidy, MSJ (Columbia Graduate School of Journalism), is a writer, editor and the author of Parents Who Think Too Much (Dell). Her essays and features have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, Family Circle, Ladies Home Journal, Parents and many more magazines. ...more Clark, Carolyn Poetry Mixed genre Translation - Classical Mythology Carolyn Clark is a teacher-scholar-poet with a passion for Classics and Archaeology. Her formal training is from Cornell, Brown and Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D, Classics). Since the 1980’s, while teaching at university, college, and high school, her work appeared primarily as scholarly articles, book reviews and a long dissertation; now she is working on her “slender” (lyric) poetry - and a smaller book. ...more CLOUGH, BRENDA - Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy - Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy Brenda Clough has written seven novels, including her most recent, Doors of Death and Life. Her short stories have been published in numerous magazines, including Analog SF Magazine and the anthology Starlight 3. Other work has appeared in SF Age, Aboriginal, Marion Zimmer Bradley Magazine, and many anthologies. She was a finalist for both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award in 2002., ...more COLE, ELLEN Ellen Cole is an actress, poet, puppeteer, and teaching artist who has performed in theatres throughout the Washington area. Ellen teaches creative writing and drama in local elementary schools and is on the faculty at Round House Theatre, Passion for Learning’s Young Writer’s Institute, and Interact Story Theatre. She is one of the directors of Round House Theatre’s touring troupe for seniors, the Heyday Players. Ellen is particularly interested in developing programs for children that bring together drama and creative writing to support language arts literacy. She has received a number of grants from the Montgomery County Arts Council to support her work with young people. Her poems have been published in The Potomac Review, The Innisfree Poetry Journal, Ladybug and Babybug magazines, and she has work that is forthcoming in Bogg Literary Journal and Ares Poetica.com. She has a M.A. in drama from Catholic University. ...more COLL, SUSAN Susan Coll's third novel, Acceptance, was published in March, 2007. She is also the author of the novels Rockville Pike and karlmarx.com. Her articles, reviews, and short fiction have appeared in publications including the International Herald Tribune, the Asian Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post Book World. Her short work of fiction, “Fire Safety Week,” was broadcast on BBC World Service Radio., ...more Cooley, Nicole - Poetry Workshop: How to Fasten to the Page with Voice Nicole Cooley's first book of poems, Resurrection, won the 1995 Walt Whitman Award and was published by LSU Press in 1996. Her second book of poems, The Afflicted Girls, was chosen as one of the best poetry books of the year by Library Journal. Other books are Judy Garland, Ginger Love, and Breach, a collection of poems about Hurricane Katrina (LSU Press). ...more Costello, Paul Paul Andrew Costello is an international educator, speaker and writer who, as director of the Center for Narrative Studies (CNS at www.storywise.com), is a leading innovator in the field of narrative practice. He has applied his Storywise techniques to guide corporations through mergers, to support communities undergoing conflict or change, and his CNS graduates form a dynamic community of local story practitioners in the DC area. He has an MFA in Writing from American University. ...more COUTURE, DENISE Denise Couture, M.S., Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, has worked as a reporter, editor, and scriptwriter. Her articles have been published in The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, The International Herald-Tribune, Newsweek Japan, Modern Maturity, and elsewhere., ...more COUTURIER, LISA Memoir Nonfiction Lisa Couturier is the author of The Hopes of Snakes & Other Tales from the Urban Landscape (Beacon, 2006), a collection of essays that explores the relationship between the human and the nonhuman. She holds a master’s degree in Literary Ecology from New York University and has worked as an environmental writer, a travel writer, and as articles editor for national magazines. Her articles and essays have appeared in Orion, Isotope, Tiferet, and other national magazines, anthologies, and literary journals. In 2006 she was listed as a notable essayist in Best American Essays. She is currently at work on a memoir about motherhood and horses. Couturier lives with her family in the Agricultural Reserve of Montgomery County, Maryland. Visit her website at www.lisacouturier.com ...more Crandall, Linda DAWN POTTER is associate director of the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching. She is author of Tracing Paradise: Two Years in Harmony with John Milton, her memoir about copying out all of Paradise Lost while living in the Main Woods. Her most recent collection of poems is How the Crimes Happened. Recent poems and essays have appeared in The Sewanee Review, The Threepenny Review, Prairie Schooner and other journals. ...more Currey, Richard Richard Currey is a Vietnam Era Navy veteran and author of the classic collection Crossing Over: The Vietnam Stories, first published in 1980. That book was a Library Journal Best Title of the Year, has been produced on radio and as a stage play, and has remained in continuous print for nearly 30 years. His 1988 Vietnam novel, Fatal Light, was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, received the Special Citation of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation as well as the Enoch Pratt Library Book Award, and was published in 11 languages. Currey was a workshop leader for the National Endowment for the Arts project Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, an editorial panelist for the resulting book, and appears in the Oscar-nominated documentary film based on the book. He has authored two other books, published numerous short stories and essays, and has received many awards and prizes, including the D. H. Lawrence Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships (in both fiction and nonfiction), and the Vietnam Veterans of America's Award for Excellence in the Arts. ...more D, RAMOLA Fiction Poetry Short story Memoir Novel Nonfiction - Writing Connected Stories - Writing Documentary in Poetry - Writing the Lyric Personal Essay Ramola D's short fiction, poetry, writer-interviews, and essays have appeared in various journals including Green Mountains Review, Prairie Schooner, Agni, The Asian Pacific Journal, and others. Her work also appears in Best American Fantasy 2007, Enhanced Gravity: More Fiction by Washington Area Women, and Best American Poetry 1994. Her book of poetry Invisible Season co-won the Washington Writer's Publishing House award in 1998. She was awarded an NEA in poetry in 2005 and was a Discovery/The Nation finalist; her poetry and fiction have been thrice nominated for the Pushcart prize. She received an MFA from George Mason University, and teaches creative writing at George Washington University. ...more DAVIS, KATIE Katie Davis is a 25-year veteran of public radio. She has been the host of NPR's Weekend All Things Considered, on which she is now a regular contributor, a Morning Edition reporter and and a regular contributor PRI's This American Life.,, ...more DELEO, BERNIE Screenwriting Bernie DeLeo has written for TV, stage and screen. He was a staff writer for the ABC-Disney sitcom "Life’s Work." For seven years, he was VP, Creative Affairs for Filbert Steps Productions in New York City, and co-produced "Forever Fabulous" (a Lifetime TV premiere), "Two Family House" (winner of the Sundance Film Festival 2000 Audience Award) and "Runaway" (winner, Austin Film Festival Audience Award 2005). In addition, Bernie wrote & co-produced the Australian romantic comedy "Love In The First Degree" which enjoyed a limited theatrical run Down Under in the Spring of 2006; it is currently available on Netflix & Amazon.com. His horror-comedy script "Stay Dead" is in development with Sydney-based Ghastly Fun Films. Bernie has been a Nicholl Fellowship quarter & semifinalist, and winner of the Final Draft and Philadelphia Film Office screenwriting prizes. ...more Dembicki, Matt Matt Dembicki writes and draws a variety of comics, including the recently published nature-based allegory Mr. Big, which garnered an honorable mention at the 2007 New York Book Festival. Dembicki's comic Attic Wit was twice named a finalist for the Gene Day Award, and his work has appeared in many noted international and domestic publications, including Stripburger and the Small Press Expo Anthology. He is currently working with two dozen Native American storytellers on a comics anthology called Trickster, which will be published in 2008. ...more DISKIN, TRAYCE Trayce Diskin, MFA Columbia University, has published poetry in journals including New Orleans Review, Brooklyn Review, Washington Square, and Poet Lore. She has won a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship to China, a Raymond Ford Poetry Scholarship, and was twice awarded the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Poetry Prize. She has been teaching literature and writing in high schools for more than 10 years., ...more DOWNS, KEVIN E. ...more DRABELLE, DENNIS Dennis Drabelle has been an editor with the Washington Post Book World since 1984. His reviews have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, The Nation, Outside, and Salon.com. In 1996 he won the National Book Critics Circle's award for excellence in reviewing. ...more Dunstan, Graham - Strengthening Your Prose: Getting Started in Fiction and Nonfiction Graham Dunstan is a fiction and memoir writer who has won numerous awards for his writing including a Larry Neal Fiction Award for the District of Columbia, and fiction awards from Lullwater Review and The Anchorage Daily News. He earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Alaska Anchorage where he also taught composition. Graham has been published in The Signal, The Phoenix, Lullwater Review, We Alaskans, Creative Loafing, Anchorage Weekly, and on PlanetOut. ...more Eggerz, Solveig Solveig Eggerz’ novel, Seal Woman, won first prize from the Maryland Writers Association and is a 2009 Eric Hoffer finalist. Her second novel, historical fiction set in World War II, is nearing completion. She has taught at Catholic University and now conducts storytelling and writing workshops to women’s groups. She holds a Phd from Catholic University in Comparative Literature, with a focus on medieval tales. ...more EHRENBERG, PAMELA Fiction Mixed genre Adults Write for Children Novel Internet - Lunchtime Writing Retreats - How to Make Time to Write in an Impossibly Busy Life - How to Make Time to Write in an Impossibly Busy Life Pamela Ehrenberg is the author of two novels for young people, Tillmon County Fire (2009) and Ethan, Suspended (2007). A former junior high teacher and AmeriCorps alumna, she is currently a higher education consultant and mom to a four-year-old and not-quite-one-year-old. For an introvert, she can be found on a surprising number of social networking sites, including twitter.com/pamelaehrenberg, Facebook, and MySpace, as well as on her own website (www.pamelaehrenberg.com). ...more EIG, JONATHAN - Introduction to Screenwriting - Feature Film Screenwriting Jonathan Eig: MA, teacher, 1995 Austin Heart of Film Festival Winner, Nicholl Fellowship Semi-finalist, CINE Golden Eagle recipient, and 2001 Recipient of Artists Fellowship from the Montgomery County Arts & Humanities Council. ...more ELAM, PATRICIA - You Should Be Writing: Memoir Workshop Patricia Elam is an award-winning writer and commentator who has been widely published in The Washington Post, Essence, Crisis, numerous journals and anthologies. She has also provided commentary for National Public Radio, CNN and the BBC. Elam is the author of the critically acclaimed novel, Breathing Room, and currently teaches at Howard University and Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, DC ...more ENRIGHT, SEAN Fiction Poetry Short story Novel Playwriting Speechwriting Internet Sean Enright has taught fiction workshops at the University of Maryland. Poems, reviews and translations have appeared in TriQuarterly, Threepenny Review, The Sewanee Review, The Kenyon Review and Verse, among others. In 2001 he published a novel, Goof and Other Stories (Creative Arts Books) – it was an Editor's Choice in The Baltimore Sun that summer. In 2006 he he completed work on a second novel, How To Disappear Completely, and in 2007 he finished his third novel, titled The New Playboy of Hoboken. Enright has also written for theatre, most recently completing a full-length black comedy about a dysfunctional suburban family and a mysterious bioterrorist plot, titled Home for the Holocaust. In 2007 he was named a semi-finalist in the National Playwright’s Contest at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center for his play about the Lincoln assassination, The Third Walking Gentleman. In 2008 the play won Third Prize in the OneActOne National Playwriting Contest at the Arts Club of Washington, D.C. Enright has an M.F.A in Poetry from the University of Maryland, and a B.A. from Northwestern University. ...more Esstman, Barbara Fiction Short story Memoir Mixed genre Novel Nonfiction - Advanced Novel and Memoir - Advanced Novel and Memoir Barbara Esstman, MFA, is a National Endowment for the Arts, VCCA and Virginia Commission for the Arts fellow and a Redbook fiction award winner, among other distinctions. Her two novels, The Other Anna and Night Ride Home, were published by Harcourt Brace and HarperCollins and are in numerous foreign editions. Both books were adapted for television by Hallmark Productions. She co-edited an anthology, A More Perfect Union, published by St. Martin's Press, and has taught extensively in universities., ...more Eversz, Robert Robert Eversz is the author of six novels that have been translated into 15 languages. In 2007, he served as the final judge for the Association of Writers and Writing Programs' (AWP) Award Series In the Novel, and helped found the Prague Summer Program at Charles University, where he teaches a workshop in the novel every summer. His work has been cited on best of year lists around the world, from Oslo's Aftenposten to the Washington Post Book World. ...more FARGAS, LAURA - Getting Started: Creative Writing Laura Fargas, JD, MFA (Iowa) Yaddo Fellow. After practicing law for 25 years, she is now on the faculty of Goddard College's low-residency MFA program. She has published two books of poetry and one novel, and her poems have appeared in such journals as Paris Review, Poetry, and the Atlantic. ...more FELLNER, STEPHEN Steve Fellner is author of a poetry collection, Blind Date with Cavafy (Marsh Hawk Press). and a memoir, All Screwed Up (Benu Press). He teaches at SUNY-Brockport. ...more Fink and Marcy Marxer, Cathy Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer are prolific songwriters with two Grammy Awards, 11 Grammy nominations and 50 awards from the Washington Area Music Association in bluegrass, folk and children’s music. Their catalogue includes over 40 recordings, books and videos. They maintain an active tour schedule as children’s/faily performers and folk/roots/country/swing artists. Cathy’s song “Names” about the AIDS Memorial Quilt was recorded by over 20 artists in several countries. They have won the John Lennon Songwriting Contest and International Songwriting Contest. They write songs in many styles for listeners of all ages. ...more FINK, CATHY - Songwriting: Digging Deeper Cathy Fink is a prolific songwriter with 2 GRAMMY Awards, 11 GRAMMY nominations and 50 awards from the Washington Area Music Association in bluegrass, folk and children’s music. She shares all her awards and recordings with Marcy Marxer. Cathy & Marcy maintain an active tour schedule as children’s/family performers and folk/roots/country/swing artists. Cathy’s song “Names” about the Aids Memorial Quilt was recorded by over 20 artists in several countries. She has won the John Lennon Songwriting Contest and International Songwriting Contest. She writes songs in many styles for listeners of all ages. Cathy's skill as in instructor has been honed in 25 years of teaching at various music camps and workshops, including The Kennedy Center, Strathmore Music Center, Puget Sound Guitar Workshop and Carnegie Hall (Lewisburg, WV). www.cathymarcy.com ...more FLEMING, LEE Fiction Short story Radio Screenwriting Novel Nonfiction Speechwriting - Creating the Feature Article - Creating the Feature Article Lee Fleming has been writing, editing and teaching fiction and nonfiction for more than two decades. She is a writer and speechwriter specializing in cultural trends and financial policy, In addition to writing the Washington Post Fixes column for more than a decade, she has had articles appear in newspapers and magazines nationally and internationally. An art critic whose work appeared regularly in the Washington Post, ARTnews and Washington City Paper, she was also the on-air arts commentator for NPR’s Performance Today. Her essays and short stories have appeared in small press magazines and anthologies; Ballantine Books published her first novel (she is currently working on a second). A former senior editor at Museum & Arts and Garden Design magazines, and managing editor/editor in chief of Landscape Architecture, Fleming has received the Larry Neal Writer’s Award, UCross Foundation fellowship/residency in creative writing, AAUW award for excellence in local reporting, Mid-Atlantic States critic’s fellowship and two D.C. Commission on the Arts’ fellowships for fiction and essays, respectively. ...more Freeman, Sunil K Author of two books of poems, That Would Explain the Violinist (Gut Punch Press, 1993) and Surreal Freedom Blues (Argonne Hotel Press, 1999). ...more Fry, Nan - Sources and Origins of Poetry - Making it New: Modern Poetry Nan Fry, M.A., Ph.D. (Yale), is the author of a full-length book of poetry, Relearning the Dark, and a chapbook of translations. She is the recipient of a work-in-progress grant and an Individual Artist’s Award from the Maryland State Arts Council and an EDPRESS Award for excellence in educational journalism. Her poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines such as Plainsong, Poet Lore, and The Wallace Stevens Journal; in anthologies such as Poetry in Motion from Coast to Coast (W.W. Norton), The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm (Viking / Penguin), and The Best of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet (Del Rey); and in textbooks such as The Creative Process (St. Martin’s) and Discovering Literature: Stories, Poems, Plays (Prentice Hall). She taught in the Maryland Poets-in-the-Schools Program, and for more than twenty years, in the Academic Studies Department at the Corcoran College of Art + Design. ...more GALVIN, MARTIN Martin Galvin has led workshops at the Writer’s Center regularly since 1975. Over a period of 30 years, Galvin has had almost 400 poems in publications throughout the country, including Poetry, The New Republic, Commonweal, Argestes, Sub-Tropics, Innisfree Poetry Journal,, Texas Review, Notre Dame Review, Maryland Poetry Review, JAMA, and The Broadkill Review. He admires hard work and believes in surprises. ...more GOLDBERG, BARBARA Barbara Goldberg is an award-winning poet and translator with five books to her name and publications in Poetry, Gettysburg Review and the Paris Review. Her day-job is as a senior speechwriter for a large non-profit organization. , ...more GRAY, PATRICIA - Strengthening Your Poetic Voice ...more Greenwood-Stewart, Tammy Fiction Short story Novel - Revising the Novel Tammy Greenwood, MA, MFA, is the author of four novels: Two Rivers, Breathing Water, Nearer Than the Sky, and Undressing the Moon. She has received grants from the Sherwood Anderson Foundation, the Christopher Isherwood Foundation and, most recently, the National Endowment for the Arts. Two of her novels have been BookSense76 picks, and her short stories have been published in Quarterly West and Western Humanities Review. She is also a photographer. ...more GUTKIND, LEE Nonfiction - Nonfiction Master Workshop with Lee Gutkind - Writing the Future Lee Gutkind is the editor of Creative Nonfction, and the author of Almost Human: Making Robots Think. ...more GUTSTEIN, DAN Fiction Poetry Short story Memoir Mixed genre Novel Nonfiction Publishing Essay - Poetry 101 - Problems and Plots in Short Fiction Daniel Gutstein has published more than 125 poems and stories in more than 60 publications, including Ploughshares, American Scholar, Prairie Schooner, Seneca Review, TriQuarterly, New Orleans Review, River City, Third Coast, Fiction, Bellevue Literary Review, Other Voices, The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, and Best American Poetry (2006). His first collection, non/fiction, is forthcoming from Edge Books in early 2010. He has received grants and awards from the Maryland State Arts Council, Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, Md., Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, University of Michigan, and other organizations. He has taught for more than ten years: dozens of college courses in creative writing and composition, including poetry and fiction workshops, mostly at George Washington University, where he has been Visiting Assistant Professor, as well as at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), the Smithsonian Institution and other community settings. A former farm hand, tae kwon do instructor, editor, Capitol Hill reporter, international economist, and disabilities specialist, he now works at MICA, in Baltimore, where he runs the Writing Studio and Learning Resource Center. He was, for four years, associate editor of StoryQuarterly magazine. ...more Hagler, Gina Gina Hagler writes nonfiction and fiction for children and adults. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications. She works with reluctant writers and leads after school workshop for writers. Her Wildfire! feature for Odyssey magazine received a Letter of Merit from the SCBWI in 2006. She’s enrolled in the MA in Writing/Science Medical Writing program at Johns Hopkins University, and has recently completed her biography of Rear Admiral David Watson Taylor. ...more HARRIS, JUDITH - Signifying Pain: The Poetry of Transformation Judith Harris, PhD, is the author of two books of poetry from LSU Press, Atonement and The Bad Secret, and a critical book from SUNY Press, Signifying Pain: Constructing and Healing the Self through Writing, a study of psychoanalytic processes underlying literary perception. Her poetry has appeared most recently in The New Republic, Slate, Ploughshares, American Life in Poetry and is forthcoming in The Atlantic Monthly. ...more Hartman, Virginia Virginia Hartman is the editor, with Barbara Esstman, of A More Perfect Union: Poems and Stories about the Modern Wedding (St. Martin’s 1998). Her stories have appeared in The Hudson Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Iowa Woman, and she has recently completed a novel. She has had two fellowships at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writer’s Conference. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from American University. , ...more Heckscher, Zahara - Poetry Games for Teens - Illness and Transformation: Writing for Survivors an Their Loved Ones - Writing Staycation Zahara Heckscher, MA, is the co-author of the book How to Live Your Dream of Volunteering Overseas (Penguin, 2002). She has also written numerous articles that have appeared in books and the online travel magazine TransitionsAbroad.com, where she serves as Contributing Editor. Heckscher teaches professional writing at the University of Maryland at College Park. She is a breast cancer survivor who prefers to be known as a "cancer thriver." She blogs at cancerthriver.blogspot.com . ...more HEMANS, DONNA Fiction Short story Donna Hemans was the 2007-2008 Black Mountain Institute (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) International Women's Forum Fellow. Donna twice served as the Lannan Visiting Creative Writer in Residence at Georgetown University and has taught fiction writing at the University of the West Indies campus in Kingston, Jamaica. She is the author of River Woman and has published short stories in numerous literary journals, including Witness, Crab Orchard Review, and Caribbean Writer. ...more HERBERT, ELLEN Fiction Memoir Mixed genre Nonfiction Blogging Ellen Herbert’s personal narrative essays have been published in The Washington Post’s “Style” section, The Sonora Review, The Rambler, Alimentum, and other journals. One of her personal essays, “Orphaned Alligators” won The 2006 Flint Hills Review Creative Nonfiction Prize. As of 3/8/09 I am guest editor # 2 at www.onthepremises.com, where my short story, "Krakow 1947" is published. I love the stories at this site! Check them out. ...more HOUSLEY, DAVE Fiction Short story Publishing Internet - Short Fiction Workshop: An Online Workshop - Online Short Fiction Workshop - Online Short Fiction Workshop Dave Housley’s collection of short fiction, “Ryan Seacrest is Famous,” was published in 2007 by Impetus Press, and was called "hilarious" a few times, and "skin-aching funny, but also built on lean, smart sentences, with ideas just as witty as they are funny" (Bookslut) and also "consistently engrossing, entertaining, and exciting" (PopMatters), and some other nice stuff, sometimes. His work has appeared in the Beloit Fiction Journal, the Collagist, Columbia, Hobart, Nerve, Pindeldyboz, Quarterly West, Sycamore Review, Wigleaf, and several other print and online journals. He’s one of the founding editors of Barrelhouse, a literary magazine that bridges the gap between serious art and pop culture. ...more HUERGO, ELIZABETH ...more JACKSON, REUBEN - A World Bold as Love Reuben Jackson is an archivist with the Smithsonian Institution's Duke Ellington Collection, and the author of a volume of poems titled fingering the keys. His poems are also featured in nine anthologies, including Rhino Records' Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like The Rivers: Black Poets Read Their Work. He is also contributed to National Public Radio's All Things Considered and Jazz Riffs programs, and is currently contributing commentary to WAMU's "Metro Connection." ...more JACOBS, GARY Gary Jacobs is artistic director and founder of Precipice, a 10-year old theater company dedicated to improvising full-length comic plays (see precipiceimprov.comn). He has been producing, directing, and acting in improvisational theater since 1979, and since 1985, he has taught over 60 classes in all forms of improvisation. In 1988, he began investigating how to train writers and actors to improvise high quality, full-length plays that are as good as the best-scripted plays being written today. The techniques he continues to develop are also useful in producing short stories, novels, screenplays, and teleplays. He is also writing a book about this subject. ...more Jensen, Charles Fiction Poetry Mixed genre Blogging Directed Reading Internet - Reading Essays on Poetry: 1900-1965 - Poetry for High Schoolers - Reading Essays on Poetry: 1965-Present - The F Word: Poetic forms Charles Jensen is the author of three chapbooks, including Living Things, which won the 2006 Frank O’Hara Chapbook Award, and The Strange Case of Maribel Dixon (New Michigan Press, 2007). A full-length collection The First Risk, will be published in 2009. A past recipient of an Artist’s Project Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, his poetry has appeared in Bloom, Columbia Poetry Review, Copper Nickel, The Journal, New England Review, spork, and West Branch. ...more Johnson, Kathryn Fiction Short story Memoir Mixed genre Adults Write for Children Novel Publishing - The Extreme Novelist - The Extreme Novelist - The Extreme Novelist (Second Session) Kathryn Johnson has published more than 40 novels under several pen names, including Kathryn Jensen (www.kathrynjensen.com) , K.M. Kimball, and Nicole Davidson,. Her most recent titles include The Secret of the Red Flame (Simon & Schuster; 2004 Agatha Award finalist) and Hot Pursuit (Silhouette, finalist in the 2006 Best Mainstream Novel category for the Book Buyer's Best Award). She teaches for both Long Ridge Writers' Group and The Institute of Children's Literature, and has designed workshops for many conferences as well as for Johns Hopkins University Continuing Education. She also works as a private creative writing mentor, helping both new and experienced writers move closer to their publication goals: www.writebyyou.com. ...more KANTER, BETH - Moms and Dads Write - How to Improve Your Writing on the Job - Writing Cover Letters - Moms and Dads Write - Moms and Dads Write Beth Kanter is a freelance feature writer who specializes in parenting and travel pieces. Her stories have appeared in a variety of publications including Wondertime, Parents, American Baby, Working Mother, Shape, the Chicago Tribune and Pages. She also writes the “Where to Stay” chapter for the popular Fodor's Washington, DC, guidebook series and recently updated a new Michelin guide. Beth has also worked as a writer for several non-profit organizations. Beth earned her MSJ from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism. ...more KIM, EUGENIA Fiction Short story Memoir Novel Nonfiction Experienced writing teacher/coach in memoir, fiction, personal essay for writers of any experience. One-time manuscript consultations or scheduled tutoring, online or in person. References and teaching reviews avaiable. ...more KINGHORN, MICHAEL - Playwriting from Scratch Michael Kinghorn has spent much of his thirty-year career developing new plays. He has led the literary departments of three major regional theaters: the Guthrie Theater, Arena Stage and the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta and has served as script consultant on dozens of new plays by distinguished and emerging playwrights. He has developed and produced his own plays at theaters around the country and has taught acting and playwriting for studio, conservatory and university programs. ...more KLINGER, LINDA Poetry Nonfiction Linda Klinger is an award-winning freelance writer, editor, and journalist with almost 25 years of experience in business-to-business and business-to-consumer markets. She has taught editing and writing classes at the Smithsonian Institute, George Washington University, and NOVA Community College; written 800+ articles and essays for publications including the Washington Post, Washington Times, HOW Magazine, and Washington Business Journal; and authored a dozen books, mostly on graphic design., ...more Laden, Nina Nina Laden has written and illustrated several books for children, including The Night I Followed the Dog (Chronicle Books), winner of the 1994 Parent's Choice Gold Aware. Other titles include Grow Up, Peek-A-Who, Romeow and Drooliet, and Ready, Set, Go., ...more LAND, SUSAN - Essay Writing for High School Students - Getting Started: Creative Writing Susan Land MA (Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars), Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction (Stanford University), has received three Maryland Council on the Arts Fellowships, and published fiction in many journals, including The Washington Review, Other Voices, the Florida Review, West Branch, and Missouri Review. So To Speak nominated her story "Amenities" for a 2006 Pushcart Prize. She had written and recorded a personal essay for NPR's All Things Considered, has a short story in Enhanced Gravity: More Fiction By Washington Area Women, and a chapter on teenagers and games in Like Whatever, the Insider's Guide to Raising Teens. Her short story "Woman With Birds of Paradise" won second place in the Bethesda Magazine short story contest. You can read it at: http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/july08/4.php ...more Lemann, Nancy - Inspired by Literature - Inspired by Literature - Inspired by Literature Nancy Lemann, MFA, Columbia University. She is the author of 4 novels, The Lives of Saints, Sportsman's Paradise, The Fiery Pantheon, and Malaise. and her work has appeared in The Paris Review, Esquire, Slate, Vogue, Elle and The Oxford American. ,, ...more Linsley , Clyde Fiction Short story Radio Novel Nonfiction Speechwriting Publishing Internet Clyde Linsley has been a full-time novelist and freelance writer since 1986. He has taught magazine publishing at George Washington University and worked for the Smithsonian Institution’s resident associate program. His mystery novels include Death Spiral, Death of a Mill Girl, Saving Louisa, and Die Like a Hero. ...more Livingston, Reb Reb Livingston is the author of Your Ten Favorite Words (Coconut Books), Pterodactyls Soar Again (Whole Coconut Chapbook Series), co- author of Wanton Textiles (No Tell Books) and co-editor of The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel anthology series. Her poems appear in Best American Poetry 2006, American Poetry Review among other publications. She's also the editor of No Tell Motel and publisher of No Tell Books. ...more LOVELAND, ELAINA Nonfiction Elaina Loveland (MA) is the author of Creative Colleges: A Guide for Student Actors, Artists, Dancers, Musicians, and Writers and Creative Careers: Paths for Aspiring Actors, Artists, Dancers, Musicians, and Writers . A professional writer and editor for nearly a decade, she is currently managing editor of International Educator, and former editor of the Journal of College Admission, the quarterly publication of the National Association for College Admission Counseling. She earned a master's degree in English at George Mason University and has taught college journalism, writing, and literature courses at several institutions in the Washington, D.C. area. She has a background in dance and has also taught ballet. She has written for numerous publications, including Adjunct Advocate, American Careers, Dance Teacher, Dance Spirit , Hispanic Outlook on Higher Education, International Educator, Military Officer, Pointe, and U.S. News and World Report's annual college guide. For more information about her books and her work, visit www.elainaloveland.com. ...more MacLennan, Alex Fiction Novel ...more MAINES, LINDSAY Lindsay Reed Maines’ work has appeared in the Washington Post, and she writes regularly for several medical trade publications. She has been teaching yoga for five years. , ...more MATHEWS, JAMES Fiction Short story - Building a Page Turner James Mathews is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University Masters in Writing program. He is the author of Last Known Position, a short story collection and winner of the 2008 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction. His fiction has appeared in many literary journals, including the Northwest Review, Carolina Quarterly, The Wisconsin Review and the Florida Review. He is also the recipient of a number of fiction awards, including the 2000 F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Award, the 1999 Carolina Quarterly Charles B. Wood Award for Distinguished Fiction and two Maryland fiction grants from the Maryland State Arts Council (1999 and 2006). His website is www.jamesmathewsonline.com ...more MAURO, BUZZ - Reading Your Work: Public Speaking Buzz Mauro is a writer and a professional actor who has appeared at Signature, Woolly Mammoth, Studio, Ford’s and other area theatres. He is Co-Director of The Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts, where he teaches a variety of acting classes, and has co-authored three books on applied acting, all published by Penguin Putnam. His stories and poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poet Lore, Tampa Review, River Styx and other magazines. ...more MAYO, CM - Dialogue Intensive Techniques C.M. Mayo is the author of the novel The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire (Unbridled Books); 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, 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. For more about C.M. Mayo and her work, visit www.cmmayo.com. ...more MCCANN, RICHARD ...more MCCOMBS, JUDITH - Slanting, Scattering, Squeezing Rhymes Judith McCombs: M.A. (Univ. of Chicago), has three books of poetry, Against Nature: Wilderness Poems, Sisters and Other Selves, and The Habit of Fire: Poems Selected & New. Two chapbooks, one of visual/verbal art; essays on nature writing. McCombs has received Neruda-Nimrod, Potomac Review, and Maryland State Arts Council poetry awards; published poems in Calyx, Grrrrr: A Collection of Poems About Bears, Poet Lore, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, and short fictions in Kansas Quarterly, Nimrod, Sun Dog (World's Best Finalist), and elsewhere. She was the poetry editor for Potomac Review‘s 2005-06 Hilary Tham tribute issue, and arranges a reading series at the Kensington Row Bookshop., ...more MCLAUGHLIN, ANN - Your Novel: Settling in to Write - Journals and Journal Writing Ann McLaughlin has published five novels: The House on Q Street, Maiden Voyage, Sunset at Rosalie, The Balancing Pole and Lightning in July. Lightning in July appeared in The Reader’s Digest Condensed Book Series and was translated into three languages. Maiden Voyage and The House on Q Street were nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Ann has held fellowships at Yaddo, Laverny, Switzerland and VCCA, where she served on the Fellows Council. She has taught at American University and is a Board member at the Writer’s Center. ...more McNees, Pat Memoir Mixed genre Nonfiction Speechwriting - Life Stories and Legacy Writing Pat McNees was a book editor (Harper & Row, Fawcett) and a freelance journalist (samples at www.patmcnees.com) before she began writing life stories — first the biography of a midwestern industrialist, then other people’s memoirs and the histories of several organizations, including the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda. Anthologies she has edited include My Words Are Gonna Linger: The Art of Personal History and Dying: A Book of Comfort. ...more Meyer, Adam - Reads Like a Movie: Screenwriting Techniques For Novelists ADAM MEYER is a novelist, filmmaker, and television writer. His novel The Last Domino (Putnam 2005) was an ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, and he recently finished his second novel, When She's Gone. He is also writer/director of the feature film Two Fireflies (www.twofirefliesthemovie.com), which is currently on the festival circuit, and has written documentaries and TV series for Fox, CBS, Discovery and National Geographic Television. ...more MOORE, MILES DAVID Miles Moore is author of three books of Poetry, Rollercoaster, and The Bears of Paris, both published by The Word Works, and Buddha Isn't Laughing (Arognne Hotel Press). He co-edited, with Karren LaLonde Alenier and Hilary Tham, Winners: A Retrospective of the Washington Prize, published by The Word Works in 1999. He has won prizes from Poet Lore, The Potomac Review, and WordWrights!, and has been been nominated for Pushcart Prizes three times, and was twice a semi-finalist in the "Discovery"/The Nation contest. He runs the the popular Iota Poetry Reading series in Arlington, which is now in its 12th year. ...more MORRIS, JOHN Fiction Poetry Short story Songwriting - Writing Short Stories - Writing Short Stories John Morris has published fiction and poetry in many literary journals in the U.S. and Great Britain, including The Southern Review, The Missouri Review, Five Points, Subtropics, and The Christian Science Monitor. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and reprinted in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. A chapbook, The Musician, Approaching Sleep, was published by Dos Madres Press in 2006. His band, Mulberry Coach, has just released their fourth CD, Splendid Insincerity, available at cdbaby.com and at the Writer's Center. ...more NADEN, MARY Mary Naden (M.F.A., Acting) teaches voice to speakers from all walks of life. She studied voice with Kristin Linklater and several Linklater Master Teachers. She has held faculty appointments at Duke Ellington School of the Arts and the University of Maryland Theatre Department, and also teaches many workshops regionally. She maintains a private vocal coaching practice in Takoma Park. , ...more NEISSER MORENO, YVETTE Poetry Mixed genre Translation - Inspired by Spring: Writing Nature Poetry - Poetry Translation Yvette Neisser Moreno is a poet and translator whose work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including The International Poetry Review, The Potomac Review, Tar River Poetry, and Virginia Quarterly Review. Her translation (from Spanish) of Argentinian poet Luis Alberto Ambroggio’s Difficult Beauty: Selected Poems will be published by Cross-Cultural Communications in May 2009. In addition to working as a professional writer/editor, Moreno teaches poetry and translation at the Writer’s Center and has taught poetry in public schools in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. ...more Nicholson, Terence Patrick Terence Nicholson a multi faceted artist/musician whose influences are as diverse as his work. He is a graduate of the Corcoran School of Art and a native Washingtonian. He has toured extensively with saxophonist, Steve Coleman and pianist Omar Sosa and trumpeter Nils Peter Movlaer. He was the Grand Prize winner of the 2006 Mid Atlantic Song Writing Contest (with Carl Walker). Terence is currently writing and composing for his band Opus Akoben and Alternative project, Thaylobleu. www.5ringsarts.com ...more NOBLE, RANDON Memoir Essay - From Private Diaries to Public Writing - Crash Course in Short Memoir - Writing the Spiritual Journey Randon Billings Noble earned her MFA in creative writing from New York University and has taught a variety of writing classes at American University for the last eight years. She has been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and a resident at Wildacres and the Vermont Studio Center. Her work has been published in or is forthcoming from The Massachusetts Review, the Modern Love column of The New York Times, Passages North and Emrys Journal, and she has recently completed a collection of essays called The Summer before Marriage. ...more NORDHAUS, JEAN Poetry Jean Nordhaus’s books of poetry include Innocence (Ohio State University Press), The Porcelain Apes of Moses Mendelssohn, My Life in Hiding, and A Bracelet of Lies. Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, The New Republic, Poetry, Best American Poetry 2000, and many other journals and anthologies. She has served as coordinator of the Folger Shakespeare Library's poetry programs and as President of Washington Writers' Publishing House. ...more ONeill, Shannon - Madman, Architect, Carpenter, Judge: A Workshop with a Literary Agent Shannon O'Neill is an agent with the Sagalyn Literary Agency, which has represented journalists, academics, business writers, and novelists for over 20 years. Based in Bethesda, the Agency works primarily with the large New York houses and focuses on upmarket nonfiction, business books, and commercial fiction. Shannon has a Master's degree in Writing from Johns Hopkins University and graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College. She is also an associate editor for the Potomac Review. ...more OShaughnessy, Susan - Weekend Grammar Crash Course Susan O’Shaughnessy has over 20 years of experience in business writing and professional training. She has taught writing courses at Georgetown University, the World Bank, and the Smithsonian Institution. She has designed and written course curricula for federal government agencies and private companies. She has served as a report writer for a variety of local companies, including RIVA Market Research in Bethesda. , ...more OSULLIVAN, WILLIAM - Advanced Personal Essay - Personal Essay William O'Sullivan, MFA, essayist, editor, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts fellow. His personal essays have appeared in The New York Times, Newsday, National Geographic Traveler, The Washingtonian, and The North American Review, among others. He has received two Artist Fellowships from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and his work has been listed three times among the notable essays of the year in The Best American Essays., ...more Pekarske, Nicole Nicole Pekarske's poems have appeared in, or are forthcoming from, Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Maryland Poetry Review, Smartish Pace, New York Quarterly, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Oberon, Gulf Coast, Midlands, and several other journals. She is author of Intermissa, Venus, a collection of poems published by Cherry Grove Editions in 2004. She has a Ph.D. in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Missouri, and she teaches at the University of Maryland Baltimore County Campus. ...more Perl, Erica Fiction Short story Children & Teens Adults Write for Children Novel Blogging Instructor Bio Erica S. Perl, JD, is a children’s book writer and freelance writer/editor who has written for every age group from pre-schoolers through high schoolers. Her picture book, Ninety-Three In My Family won the Reuben Award for Best Illustrated Book and was named a Slate Best Book of 2006. Erica’s first middle grade novel and her first young adult novel will be published by Harcourt in 2009 and 2010. She also has two picture books scheduled for publication with Abrams: Dotty and You Know What? Chicken Butt! Her website is www.ericaperl.com and she blogs about children’s books for www.offsprung.com/pajamazon. . ...more PIERCE, NORA ...more Piers, Chris Chris Piers copyedits several monthly Image Comics titles. He has written, drawn and published comic books in the small press and self-published arena for the last several years. He studied screenwriting and illustration in college. ...more Pietrzyk, Leslie Fiction Short story Memoir Novel - The First Pages: What Makes a Good Beginning - How to Talk the Talk: Focus on Dialogue Leslie Pietrzyk, MFA, is the author of the novels Pears on a Willow Tree (Avon) and A Year and a Day (William Morrow), which was selected for the Book-of-the-Month Club and the Borders “Original Voices” series. Her short fiction has appeared in many publications, including Washingtonian, TriQuarterly, Gettysburg Review, The Sun, Iowa Review, New England Review, and Confrontation. She has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences. ...more Plumly, Stanley - Poetry Master Class Stanley Plumly is a Distinguished University Professor and Professor of English at the University of Maryland. His work has been honored with the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award. Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2000 received an Academy Award for the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2001. , ...more POLINER, LIZ Fiction Poetry Short story Mixed genre Novel - Advanced Fiction - Creative Writing: Getting Started Liz Poliner, MFA and JD, writes poetry and fiction, and is the author of Mutual Life & Casualty, a novel-in-stories. Her stories have appeared in Kenyon Review, Other Voices, Ascent, Pleiades, and others; her poems have appeared in Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, Seneca Review, and others. A recipient of numerous grants from the DC Arts Commission, she has also been a Yaddo and VCCA fellow. She's also received scholarships in fiction to the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers' Conferences. ...more Potter, Dawn - Transcription Dawn Potter is associate director of the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching. She is author of Tracing Paradise: Two Years in Harmony with John Milton, her memoir about copying out all of Paradise Lost while living in the Main Woods. Her most recent collection of poems is How the Crimes Happened. Recent poems and essays have appeared in The Sewanee Review, The Threepenny Review, Prairie Schooner and other journals. ...more POWER, NANI Nani Power's first novel, Crawling at Night was a New York Times Notable Book of The Year and a finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Award as well as the British Orange Award. It has been translated into six languages and optioned for film. The Good Remains (Grove/Atlantic Monthly) was also a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for the Virginia Library Award. Her most recent novel, The Sea of Tears, was published by Counterpoint in 2005. , ...more QUATTLEBAUM, MARY - Writing for Younger Children Mary Quattlebaum, MA, teacher, reviewer, is the author of fifteen award-winning children's books, including Jackson Jones and the Puddle of Thorns (Random House) and Sparks Fly High (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux). Her work has appeared in anthologies and magazines such as Cricket, Spider, Ladybug, and Boys' Life. Mary reviews children's books for the Washington Post and Washington Parent, edits educational materials for museums and small publishers, and presents frequently at schools. Her website is www.maryquattlebaum.com ...more REES, ELIZABETH - Creative Writing: Getting Started - Creative Writing: Getting Started - The Force of Poetry Elizabeth Rees: MA, DC Commission for the Arts and Montgomery County Council for the Arts grant winner. She has taught at the US Naval Academy, Howard University, and Johns Hopkins part time graduate program. She is a Maryland Poet in the Schools Program poet Her poetry has appeared in The Partisan Review, Kenyon Review, Agni, Seneca Review, and Mid American Review, among others. Her chapbook Balancing China won the Sow’s Ear Press contest. ...more Render, Angela Fiction Nonfiction Blogging - Advanced Marketing - Blogging Tips and Tricks - Introduction to Marketing Platforms - Introduction to Blogging - Introduction to Blogging - Introduction to Marketing Platforms - Blogging Tips and Tricks - Social Networking for Writers Angela Render has been designing and maintaining web sites for over a decade. She was the Web Editorial Assistant and then the Web Developer for Smithsonian/ Magazine for four years. Her first novel, Forged ByLightning: A Novel of Hannibal and Scipio, was published in April of 2006. She currently has a column in Writers' Journal called Computer Business. www.angelarender.com ...more Rocke, Sid Sidney Rocke, J.D. has been practicing law for 25 years and is a former federal and state prosecutor. He has handled numerous trials and court appearances nationwide, and regularly testified before Congress and state legislatures. Mr. Rocke has written for a number of publications including the Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, and Legal Times of Washington. He received his law degree from George Washington University, and a B.A. in Communication Studies from the University of Massachusetts. ...more Rodriguez, Jason Jason Rodriguez has been editing and writing comics for the past five years. Most recently he edited the full-color thriller Elk's Run (Villard/Random House) and edited, produced and wrote for the anthology Postcards: True Stories That Never Happened (Villard/Random House 2007). His new comics projects including the sequel to Postcards and a Sam Cooke biography. ...more Rough, Jenny Jenny Rough is a lawyer-turned-writer. She’s written articles and essays for Self, The Washington Post, Yoga Journal, USA Weekend, Los Angeles Times, and Writer’s Digest, among other publications. She blogs about books for LIME.com and is a regular contributor to Whole Life Times. Her work has also appeared in the form of radio essays on WAMU here in Washington, D.C. ...more RUBIN, JEFFREY Jeffrey Rubin, M.A., is a Virginia-based screenwriter/producer who has sold or optioned three screenplays, one of which was produced by Showtime. His screenplays have won top prizes at Worldfest Houston and the Vail Film Festival, among others, and been nominated for a Writer’s Guild of American Award. ...more Ryan, Ellen - Getting Your Nonfiction Articles Into Print Ellen Ryan was managing editor ofThe Washingtonian for more than 12 years. Since writing for the Cavalier Dailyat the University of Virginia, she has been an editor in Washington for two decades. Her freelance articles have appeared inGood Housekeeping, Outside, AARP, theWashington Post, Forbes Life Executive Woman,and dozens more. Ryan is author ofInnkeeping Unlimited: Practical, Low-Cost Ways to Improve Your B&B and Win Repeat Business. ...more SALNER, DAVID David Salner worked as an iron ore miner, furnace tender, machinist, and garment worker. A longtime activist in social struggles, he has an MFA from the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop. His fourth collection, John Henry’s Partner Speaks, was published in 2008, and his poems have appeared in The Iowa Review North American Review, Threepenny Review, Poetry Daily, Prairie Schooner, and many other journals. He has received grants from the Maryland State Arts Council and the Puffin Foundation. ...more SCHEER, LAURIE - The Writers Journey Laurie Scheer has worked as an assistant, d-girl, producer, and network vice president for large media companies and has taught media studies at several universities. She is the author of Creative Careers In Hollywood: From Extra Girls to Errand Boys and a DVD about pitching your projects to Hollywood. , ...more SEITCHEK, CARA Fiction Short story Nonfiction - How to Write a Grant Proposal - How to Write a Grant Proposal Cara Seitchek has written grant proposals for local, state, and national non-profit organizations. In addition, she evaluates proposals for the Institute of Museum and Library Services, American Association of Museums, and the Maryland State Arts Council. She has an M.A. in writing from Johns Hopkins.,,, ...more Shamas, Laura Laura Shamas has written 30 plays, and is produced in the U.S., the U.K., Canada and Australia. In the past year, she’s had four plays published: Moliere in Love, Lincoln Vacation, Pistachio Stories, and Re-Sourcing. Recently, her play Chasing Honey was workshopped and performed at The Public Theater in New York as part of the Native Theater Festival 2008. Her playwriting awards include the 2008 Five Civilized Tribes Garrard Best Play Award and a Drama-Logue Award. ...more SOLARI, ROSE Fiction Poetry Memoir Novel Nonfiction Playwriting - A Sense of the Whole Rose Solari is the author of two full-length collections of poetry, Orpheus in the Park, and Difficult Weather, and two chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in many journals here and in the U.K., including Parnassus, Gargoyle, Poet Lore, The Mississippi Review, The Potomac Review, and Nth Position, and her poetry and prose have appeared in several anthologies, including American Poetry: The Next Generation; Enhanced Gravity: More Fiction by Washington Area Women; and Women: Images and Realities, A Multicultural Reader. Her other honors and awards include the Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize (selected by Philip Levine) and, in 2007, her third Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist’s Grant. She has taught at the Writer's Center for fifteen years, and joined the board of directors there in 2006. ...more STEARNS, LYNN Fiction Short story Memoir Mixed genre Novel Nonfiction - Memoir: Understanding Story Construction - Memoir: Understanding Story Construction Work has appeared in the Bitter Oleander, descant, Haight-Ashbury Review, Troika, Wascana Review, and other publications. She has received awards for short stories, narratives and poetry from Mentor, the National League of American Pen Women, Random House, and others, and is currently serving as an associate fiction editor for the Potomac Review. ...more STEINER, ADELE Fiction Poetry Children & Teens - Kids Write for Kids (for 8-11 year-olds) - Kids Write for Kids (For 8-11 Year Olds) - Kids Write for Kids (for 8-11 Year Olds) - Kids Write for Kids (For 8-11 Olds) - Prose, Poetry & Narrative Verse for Middle Schoolers - Prose, Poetry, & Narrative Verse for Middle Schoolers Adele Steiner: B.A. & M.F.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing (University of Maryland); Instructor, Montgomery College, Poet-in-the-Schools, Maryland State Arts Council; host of Cafe Muse; Veteran Artist in Residence, Georgetown University Hospital; and author of Freshwater Pearls, The Moon Lighting, and Look Ma, "Hands" on Poetry. Her work has appeared in Wordwrights, Maryland Poetry Review, Gargoyle, Smartish Pace, Promise, and So To Speak. , ...more STEVEN, DANIEL N Daniel Steven is a publishing attorney and writer. His suspense novels have over 150,000 copies in print; he has published magazine articles, prize-winning short fiction, and nonfiction books, including The Street Smart Writer (Nomad, 2006). He also has worked as an editor, counsel, and executive at a major publishing house. He teaches novel workshops at the Writer's Center, and is the Chairman of the Contracts and Grievances Committee of the Mystery Writers of America, Inc. ...more STEWART, DAVID O ...more Svoboda, Terese Terese Svoboda is author of several novels and collections of poetry, including The Tin God, All Aberration, Laughing Africa, and Treason. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Slate.com, Bomb, Lit, Columbia, Yale Review and The Paris Review. Her honors include an O. Henry for the short story, a nonfiction Pushcart Prize, a translation National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, and a PEN/Columbia Fellowship. ...more TABER, SARA - The Writer Toolbox - Personal Essay in a Day - Personal Essay in a Day - Personal Essay in a Day - The Writers Toolbox - The Writers Toolbox Sara Mansfield Taber received a Bergeron Fellowship to teach writing in London, and was a William B. Sloane Fellow in Nonfiction at the Breadloaf Writer's Conference. She is the author of Dusk on the Campo: A Journey in Patagonia; Of Many Lands: Journal of a Traveling Childhood; and Bread of Three Rivers: The Story of a French Loaf. Her short pieces have appeared in anthologies, such as Unrooted Childhoods, and in literary magazines and on public radio.Visit her website at www.sarataber.com ...more Tabler, Judith Fiction Children & Teens Adults Write for Children Nonfiction - Writing for the Middle Grade Reader - Writing for the Middle Grade Reader Judith Tabler writes fiction and nonfiction for magazines such as Appleseeds, Calliope, Cobblestone and is the author of several books, one of which was awarded best children’s book by the Dog Writer’s Association of America. She also wrote for the National Geographic Society education department. She holds an MFA in creative writing for young people and teaches writing at a local university. She is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. ...more Taylor, David Fiction Screenwriting Nonfiction Essay - Science Writing - Starting a Documentary Film Project - Starting a Documentary Film Project David Taylor is an award-winning writer and documentary maker whose work deals with science, history and culture. He's the author of Ginseng, The Divine Root (Algonquin, 2006), a social history of the medicinal plant, and Soul of a People (Wiley, 2009), about the Federal Writers' Project of the 1930s. The t.v. documentary he wrote and co-produced, also titled Soul of a People, was broadcast on the Smithsonian Channel in Fall 2009 and nominated for a 2010 Writers' Guild of America award for documentary. His articles have appeared in Smithsonian, The Washington Post, Outside, and The Christian Science Monitor. He has also written for the National Science Foundation, NIH, and the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. His collection Success: Stories won the 2008 fiction award from Washington Writers' Publishing House and was a finalist in the 2009 Library of Virginia Literary Awards. ...more Thompson, Sue Ellen Poetry - Syntax as Strategy Sue Ellen Thompson is the author of four books of poetry, most recently THE GOLDEN HOUR (2006), and the editor of THE AUTUMN HOUSE ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY. Twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, she taught at Middlebury College, Wesleyan University, SUNY Binghamton, and Central Connecticut State University before moving in 2007 to the Eastern Shore. She has been resident poet at The Frost Place in Franconia, NH, and the recipient of the Pablo Neruda Prize in Poetry and two Individual Artist's Grants from the State of CT. Her poems have been read by Garrison Keillor on NPR and featured in Ted Kooser's natioinally syndicated newspaper column, "American Life in Poetry." She was involved in the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference for many years, as a National Arts Club Scholar, Robert Frost Fellow, and administrative staff member. ...more Tiberghien, Susan - Memoir: A Window Into Your Life Susan M. Tiberghien has published three memoirs—Looking for Gold, A Year in Jungian Analysis; Circling to the Center, Encounter with Silent Prayer; and Footsteps, A European Album—along with numerous narrative essays in journals and anthologies. Her fourth book, One Year to A Writing Life, Twelve Lessons to Deepen Every Writer’s Art and Craft, was published by Da Capo (Perseus Books) in 2007. She teaches at graduate programs, at C.G. Jung Centers, at writers’ conferences, and at the monthly Geneva Writers’ Workshops. Her website is www.susantiberghien.com ...more TODD, DAVID Y - PR 101 for Solo Practioners and Small Organizations - PR 101 for Solo Practitioners and Small Organizations - PR 101 for Solo Practitioners and Small Organizations David Y. Todd is a public relations consultant and writer. After working as a trial lawyer then as a journalist, he taught at universities before turning to public relations full time in 1998. He has directed publications and aided media relations for individuals, government, nonprofits, and universities, and has spoken and written for himself and others online and in the Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post, Yale Review, on local TV, and elsewhere. Find him on the web at www.davidytodd.com. ...more TOUTANT, PAMELA - Writing the Personal Essay Pamela Toutant, is a personal essayist and occasional feature writer. Her work has appeared in Salon, Redbook, Ms. Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, Washingtonian Magazine, and Bethesda Magazine among others. She was selected as a 2004 finalist for the Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award, was a 2006 Pushcart Prize nominee, and is a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellow. ...more Valdes, Marcela Marcela Valdes is a freelance writer and a contributing editor at Publishers Weekly. She writes features, profiles, essays and reviews for The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Believer, The Nation, Bookforum, and other publications. Valdes specializes in writing about literary fiction and Latin American culture. Since 2006 she has served on the board of the National Book Critics Circle. ...more Vap, Sarah - Confessional Poetry SARAH VAP received her MFA degree in poetry at Arizona State University in 2005. She is an editor of poetry at the journal 42Opus. She is author of American Spikenard, winner of the 2006 Iowa Poetry Prize, and Dummy Fire. Her work has been recently published or is forthcoming in FIELD, Diner, Barrow Street, Denver Quarterly, Court Green, and Natural Bridge. ...more Vaus, Lyn - From Book to Screenplay: The Art of Adaptation - From Book to Screenplay: The Art of Adaptation - Writing the Romantic Comedy Script - Writing the Romantic Comedy Script LYN VAUS, a longtime screenwriter and industry professional, is best known for his award-winning Miramax romantic comedy Next Stop Wonderland. He began his career as a story editor for L2 productions in Hollywood where his duties included overseeing the script for New Line’s sci-fi hit The Lawnmower Man, starring Pierce Brosnan. He has had numerous screenplays of his own optioned, put into development, and in some cases produced, by, IMAX, Fine Line, Jersey Shore, SenArt, and Miramax. ...more VILLANUEVA, MARIANNE - Using Memory in Memoir and Fiction Marianne Villanueva is the author of two published collections of short fiction, Ginseng and Other Tales from Manila (Calyx Press) and Mayor of the Roses: Stories (the inaugural publication of the Miami University Press Fiction Series). A third collection, The Lost Language, is forthcoming from Anvil Press of the Philippines. She has been nominated for the Pushcart as well as short-listed for the O. Henry Literature Prize. ...more Vitori, Ami ...more WALTER, RICK Fiction Short story Screenwriting Mixed genre Novel Nonfiction Songwriting Blogging Rick Walter is the communications director at the Writer's Center. He has been an editor and book critic for major newspapers and magazines for more than 20 years. He is a former news editor and staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, Newsday and The Hartford Courant. He is the former publisher of Proudfoot Publishing, a publisher of travel newsletters His short fiction and essays have been published in numerous magazines. ...more WASHER, RICHARD Poetry Mixed genre Playwriting Songwriting Richard Washer, MFA, playwright, director and educator, currently serves as Company Dramaturge at Charter Theater, where he has worked as a playwright, director and dramaturge since the company started in 1998. His most recent play, "The Fetish," was produced at The National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in December, 2008. His play "Quartet" was performed at the Hamner Theatre in Nelson County, Virginia in April of 2009. Richard has led Playwriting and Mixed Genre workshops at the Writer’s Center since 1995. ...more Weil, Josh JOSH WEIL is the author of The New Valley, a New York Times Editors Choice that won the New Writers Award from the GLCA and was selected by the National Book Foundation for a “5 Under 35” Award. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Granta, Poets & Writers, and Narrative. The recipient of an MFA from Columbia University and a Fulbright grant, he is currently the writer-in-residence at Gilman School in Baltimore. ...more WELLS, TIM Tim Wells: Teacher and freelance writer/editor, author of 444 Days: The Hostages Remember (Harcourt), Drug Wars (Morrow), and Bearing the Burden (in progress, Viking), his articles have appeared in Playboy, The Washington Post Magazine, and Washington Lawyer Magazine. , ...more WEXLER, NATALIE Fiction Memoir Nonfiction Natalie Wexler’s personal essays have appeared in The American Scholar, The Gettysburg Review, The Washington Post Magazine, and other publications. Her essay "Perfect" was listed as a notable essay in the The Best American Essays 2006. A former journalist and freelance feature writer, she has also published two short stories. Her novel, "A More Obedient Wife," won a bronze medal in the historical fiction category of the 2007 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Awards. ...more White, Basil Fiction Poetry Short story Memoir Radio Screenwriting Mixed genre Children & Teens Adults Write for Children Novel Nonfiction Playwriting Speechwriting Blogging - Applying Standup Comedy Techniques to Your Writing - Applying Standup Comedy Techniques for Your Writing Basil White is mighty, and has a glow you cannot see. He radiates charm and bonhomie in his wake. Basil is a speechwriter, a published joke writer (Judy Brown's "Squeaky Clean Comedy", "The Comedy Thesaurus" and Larry Getlen's "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Jokes"), public speaker and business humor consultant. He has taught normal people how to wield their own sense of humor in challenging circumstances. Basil helps people add funny to presentations, advertising, movie scripts and user manuals. He also writes articles and online courses on creative technology writing, usability and information design. Basil has an MA in Science Writing from Johns Hopkins University. Know all at basilwhite.com. ...more WOLF, MICHELE Fiction Poetry Short story Memoir Mixed genre Novel Nonfiction Michele Wolf is the author of Conversations During Sleep, winner of the Anhinga Prize for Poetry, and The Keeper of Light, which won the Painted Bride Quarterly Poetry Chapbook award. She has published poems in Poetry, The Hudson Review, North American Review, Poet Lore and numerous other literary journals and anthologies, including the best-selling When I Am An Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple. She serves as a contributing editor for Poet Lore. She is also a former editor for Scribner, Simon & Schuster, and Harper’s Bazaar, and has been a freelance editor for Vanity Fair, Audubon, Travel & Leisure and Kirkus Reviews. She has received fellowships from Yaddo, the Edward F. Albee Foundation and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. ...more WOODWORTH, ANNE HARDING Anne Harding Woodworth is the author of three books of poetry and two chapbooks. Her most recent book is SPARE PARTS: A Novella in Verse (Turning Point Books). Her essays and poetry are widely published in U.S. and Canadian journals. She has an MFA in poetry from Fairleigh Dickinson University and is a member of the Poetry Board at the Folger Shakespeare Library. ...more YOUNG, YOLANDA ...more

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