Flash Fiction and Techniques of Fiction

Two workshops coming up: this Sunday at the Writers Center in Bethesda MD, Flash Fiction. Then, on October 18th in Mexico City, Techniques of Fiction via Dancing Chiva. More anon.

Literary Travel Writing Workshops

Both with Yours Truly (C.M. Mayo):
--->January 19th in Mexico City via Dancing Chiva.
--->February 10th in Bethesda MD (near Washington DC) via the Writers Center.

Book Art Surfari

The other day, when I was at the Writers Center to give my Literary Travel Writing Workshop, I happened upon a tiny, brown, hand-stamped and altogether peculiar-looking package that turned out to be an art book by Sally Canzoneri. The title: Repurposed Law. She'd taken her law books, colored them and turned them into book-like origami--- the point being, as she writes in the insert, "About This Book," to "reshape my old law books, just as the Bush administration has reshaped our law to suit its purposes. My law books can have a new purpose now: commenting on what the Bush administration has done to our nation's greatest treasure--- our legal system." Apropos of art books, I went on a little Internet surfari and found quite a few delve-worthy websites. Here's a good place to start your own book art surfari:
Pyramid Atlantic: Contemporary Prints, Paper, and Book Arts.

Travel Writing Workshop at the Writers Center, Bethesda Maryland & Coyoacan, Mexico City

I'm giving a special one afternoon Saturday travel writing workshop on June 16th. For more info and to register, click here. Later, I'll be offering the same in Coyoacan, Mexico City. Stay tuned.

Kenyon Review Today at the Writers Center

Today at 7:30 pm Kenyon Review Editor David Lynn will be at the Bethesda MD Writers Center to talk about "Dizzying Change on the Literary Scene." The talk will be followed by a question/answer session and a reception. Free admission. (The summer 2004 issue has my short story, "The Building of Quality". There's an online Kenyon Review interview about my work here.) This is sure to be a fascinating lecture. If you're interested in publishing literary fiction and poetry and you are anywhere in the Washington DC metropolitan area, you'd find it well worth your while to attend. More anon.