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Dexter Book Manufacturer Sponsors Writing Workshops
Author Peter Ho Davies will host the writing seminar set for May 21.
Local book manufacturer Thomson-Shore is sponsoring writing workshops and a conference on May 21 hosted by 826michigan, an Ann Arbor nonprofit that encourages children to write creatively.
The series for adults, “How To Write Like I Do,” will kick-off with a workshop, “Writers Behaving Badly,” led by Peter Ho Davies, author of the novel The Welsh Girl, and the story collections The Ugliest House in the World and Equal Love. His work has appeared in Harpers, The Atlantic, Granta and The Paris Review, and has been selected for Prize Stories: The O. Henry Award and Best American Short Stories.
The seminar, set from 1 to 4 p.m. at 826michigan, 115 E. Liberty St. in Ann Arbor, will show writers how to break those old rules drummed into you by grade school teachers, such as “show, don’t tell” and “write what you know.”
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Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 at the door, and proceeds will benefit free creative writing programs for local children.
A summer workshop will be held Aug. 6, led by Hannah Pittard, assistant editor of Narrative Magazine and author of The Fates Will Find Their Way. The fall workshop is set for Sept. 25, with local writer Phillip Stead, author of A Sick Day for Amos McGee, and his wife Erin, who won the 2011 Caldecott Medal for excellence in illustration in children’s literature for her work on the book.
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The “How To Write Like I Do” series is a win-win, said 826michigan executive director Amanda Uhle.
“Here in Ann Arbor we have a wealth of talented writers,” she said. “We’re so proud to offer community members the chance to connect with and learn from them, and to support our work with Ann Arbor’s next generation of writers.”
Thomson-Shore will also sponsor the 826michigan second annual Fiction Writers Conference set for June 3-5. John Drury will teach poetry; Joyce Dyer will instruct in how to write memoirs; Daniel Mueller is the instructor for short stories; and Margo Rabb will teach how to write a novel.
826michigan will also hold “The Storymakers Dinner,” at 6:30 p.m. May 12 at Zingerman’s Roadhouse, 2501 Jackson Ave., in Ann Arbor, with special guest Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and editor of Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar: Stories of Work.
For information on any of the events, call 734-761-3463 or visit www.826michigan.org.
