SUNDAY, JULY 20
6:00-8:00  Dinner & Introductions  

MONDAY,  July 21
10:00-12:00 
Writing From the Imaginative Storm with James Navé
By a combination of movement, brainstorming, and improvisation, you’ll  learn to connect more deeply to your imagination which will inspire you to material full of energy, verve, and originality.

12:00-1:30 Lunch

2:00-4:00
Creativity as an Altered State with Gladys Swan 
Through a series of relaxation and drawing exercises this workshop will show you how to explore lucid dreaming as a source for images of place and personal meaning. 

4:15-6:00
The Storm Builds with James Navé & Leslie Ullman 
Movement, brainstorming, and improvisational work generates the rough draft, craft advances it.  In this session, we’ll examine how to revise all that messy material into solid drafts itchy for submission.

6:00-7:00 Dinner           

TUESDAY, JULY 22
10:00-12:00
Telling Your Own Story with Allegra Huston
Write from what you know - one of the best, and most common, pieces of advice.  But how do you make your own story compelling to readers who don't know you?  Should you tell it straight, or make fiction from it?  We'll explore ways of accessing memory and building from it, and discuss the power and the pitfalls of the personal story.

12:00-1:30 Lunch 
3:00-5:30
Turning the World and Our Work Upside Down & Inside Out: Exploring Perspective with Page Lambert
You will explore the shape of story, looking at how energy moves within a story, and at how different types of energy move a story forward. You will enter your own work from a new perspective and discover its hidden nature.

6:00-7:00 Dinner

WEDNESDAY, JULY 23
10:00-12:00
Performing and Presenting Your Work with James Navé and Page Lambert
In this workshop, we’ll touch on the many ways you can present your work and how important it is to claim and develop your  own signature presentation style. 

12:00-1:30 Lunch 

3:00-5:00
Opening Up Inner Perception with Leslie Ullman
This workshop will explore how we can wake our senses and powers of observation, and, in the process fall more in love with language. 

6:00- Free evening in town

THURSDAY JULY 24
10:00-12:00
Character with Allegra Huston
Character is the building block of story.  People in action create plot.  How do you create those people, make them interesting and individual?  How do you make your reader care about them?  We'll play with techniques for getting inside a character, and finding what it is that makes a character

12:00-1:00  Lunch 

1:15-5:00
The Potential of Images with Paul Pascarella -FIELD TRIP TO EL SALTO
You’re invited to join Paul in his studio where you’ll explore how the language of chaos in the natural world informs, instructs, and encourages the imaginative process.  

6:00-7:00 Dinner

7:15-Open mic readings

FRIDAY JULY 25
9:00-11:00
Your Burning Questions, Topics, and Great Literay Ideas