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SUMMARY:FALL WRITING WORKSHOP WITH PETER MOUNTFORD
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US FOR AN ALL-DAY FALL WRITING WORKSHOP WITH PETER MOUNTFORD\nMAKING MEANING IN YOUR PERSONAL ESSAY\nSunday\, November 2\, 2025 | 10AM to 3PM \nPitkin County Library\n120 N Mill St\, Aspen\, CO 81611 \nREGISTER HERE \nThis all-day workshop with award-winning novelist and essayist Peter Mountford runs 10 AM–3 PM\, with a lunch break from 12–1 PM.\nAttendees will learn the most difficult and important skill in personal essay writing: how to make your personal story relevant to a perfect stranger. Hilary Mantel\, on the difficulty of writing about oneself\, said: “If other people are to care about your life\, art must intervene.”    \n“Aboutness” is fundamental to a successful essay\, yet both literary and general-publication editors frequently complain of receiving writers’ essays that don’t seem to be “about” anything. In this workshop\, attendees will figure out how to select a topic\, then focus and refine an essay to arc toward theme and meaning.     \n In the morning\, the workshop will focus on choosing an essay’s seeds. These ideas should be inherently engaging from a story standpoint but also contain focused opportunities for rich thematic meaning. We will generate new writing for a few topics. Attendees will assess different ideas and talk about what each might offer in terms of story and meaning.    \nIn the afternoon\, the workshop will focus on developing one or two ideas further into a publishable work that appeals to readers. Specifically\, we’ll work toward making meaning—how to write/revise toward your essay’s “aboutness.” Attendees will learn how there are several different approaches for seeking and demonstrating meaning\, as we work through ideas generated in class. We’ll also learn secrets to successful essay structure.   \nCome prepared to brainstorm new essay ideas\, bring ones you’ve been mulling over\, or essays you’ve written that just aren’t working. Attendees will look at examples of how other authors have done this\, including Melissa Febos\, and Leslie Jamison. We will look at the first draft vs the published draft of the instructor’s Modern Love essay.  \nAbout the Instructor: \n \nPeter Mountford is the author of A Young Man’s Guide to Late Capitalism (winner of the Washington State Book Award) and The Dismal Science (a New York Times Editor’s Choice)\, as well as the short story collection Detonator. His essays and fiction have appeared in The New York Times (Modern Love)\, The Paris Review\, The Atlantic\, The Sun\, and more. He teaches at the University of Nevada\, Reno at Lake Tahoe’s MFA program and through Mountford Writing.
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/fall-writing-workshop-with-peter-mountford/
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SUMMARY:AWN November Meeting
DESCRIPTION:November 20 – Lucinda Halpern will be conducting a talk on: Get Signed: Find an Agent\, Land a Book Deal\, and Become a Published Author. \nLucinda Halpern is a literary agent and the founder of Lucinda Literary\, based in New York. She has worked with all major publishers\, including Penguin Random House\, Simon & Schuster\, Macmillan\, Hachette\, and Scholastic\, and currently represents New York Times and internationally best-selling authors in the categories of business\, personal growth\, popular science\, narrative nonfiction\, memoir\, and upmarket fiction. \nHer classes and coaching programs have been taught to hundreds of writers worldwide\, and became the inspiration for her new book Get Signed: Find an Agent\, Land a Book Deal\, and Become a Published Author (Hay House; February 6th\, 2024). \nBECOME A MEMBER 
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/awn-november-meeting/
LOCATION:Colorado
CATEGORIES:Aspen Writers' Network
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