Write On 4 Corners Author Holds Writing Class

ABQ Writers Co-op Presents
Find Your Story: Writing the Memoir


Dates: Six Wednesday sessions, June 9th to July 14th Time: 4:00-6:00 pm
Location: Conference room, 2811 Indian School NE (NE corner Indian School & Girard, north on Girard, next to Tijeras Hair Salon)

Do you have a story but don’t know how to tell it? This is the class for you. Here’s what we’ll cover:

Session 1: From idea to the page: “It begins here because it’s about this.”
Session 2: Building a narrative: nuts, bolts, & other tools of the trade
Session 3: What’s your story? Storytelling techniques (incl’g pacing, voice, & style)
Session 4: Real people are characters, & characters are real people
Session 5: Painting the picture for readers: setting, detail, & imagery
Session 6: Workshop

Class includes weekly topic lectures, weekly writing assignments critiqued by instructors & classmates (outside of class), & weekly reading assignments.

Cost: $300 for six sessions ($30 deposit due by May 22nd)

Class is limited to eight participants. To reserve your place, please email lisalenardcook@gmail.com or millerlc18@comcast.net.

Instructors: Even before they joined forces to form ABQ Writers Co-op, Lynn C. Miller and Lisa Lenard-Cook had made names for themselves as both writers & teachers. Lynn’s illustrious career at the University of Texas at Austin included two major teaching awards; she received the Coger Award for Distinguished Performance for her solo performances and adaptations of fiction for the stage. Lisa’s first novel Dissonance was short-listed for the PEN Southwest Book; her subsequent books, the novel Coyote Morning and a book about writing fiction, The Mind of Your Story are also award-winners. Lynn is the author of two novels, The Fool’s Journey and Death of a Department Chair, and co-editor of Voices Made Flesh: Performing Women’s Autobiography. Her play, “Passenger on the Ship of Fools” (with Laura Furman) won a new play award in 2009. Both writers conduct workshops nationally as well as locally and serve as mentors to writers on individual projects.

ABQ Writers Co-op is a new joint venture founded by Lynn C. Miller & Lisa Lenard-Cook to foster the creative writing process, & provide community and support––including classes and retreats––for writing.

Connie Gotsch www.conniegotsch.com Host Write On Four Corners KSJE FM, Farmington NM www.ksje.com Author two award winning novels Snap Me a Future and A Mouthful of Shell available www.dlsijpress.com

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Lisa Lenard-Cook at Maria's Bookshop in Durango

Lisa Lenard-Cook

Time: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 6:30 p.m.
Location: Maria's Bookshop
Former Durango resident Lisa Lenard-Cook returns to share her new book on the craft of writing.

The Mind of Your Story: Discover What Drives Your Fiction(Hardcover (Cloth))
by Lenard-Cook, Lisa
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price: $19.99
Published: Writers Digest Books, 2008

A great story has a way of seducing you, of pulling you in and taking you along for the ride, like it has a mind of its own. The Mind of Your Story takes writers beyond the basics and guides them through the foundations and the nuances of story creation, allowing them to create fiction that grabs the reader and doesn’t let go.

Coyote Morning(Trade Paperback)
by Lisa Lenard-Cook
Format: Trade Paperback
Price: $15.95
Published: University of New Mexico Press, 2004
Inventory Status: Special Order - Subject to Availability

Anyone who lives in the twenty-first-century West will recognize Lenard-Cook's sharp-eyed portrait of the edgy space between farms and suburbs, old timers and newcomers. But her witty send-up of the environmental issues that vex refugees from city life serves as a powerful and serious means of examining the ways human beings cope with life's mysteries and its inevitable dangers. The complex relations between men and women, parents and children, brothers and sisters that make up the daily lives of Lenard-Cook's characters will make readers reflect on their own lives and relationship to wildness.


Dissonance(Hardcover (Cloth))
by Lenard-Cook, Lisa
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price: $21.95
Published: University of New Mexico Press, 2003
Inventory Status: Special Order - Subject to Availability

""Dissonance . . . is bold in its scale, placing us at different eras in the concentration camp at Theresienstadt and in the scientific world of Los Alamos, New Mexico. . . . Few contemporary novels challenge the reader's conscience as "Dissonance does. . . ."--Kevin McIlvoy, author of "Hyssop



Connie Gotsch www.conniegotsch.com Host Write On Four Corners KSJE FM, Farmington NM www.ksje.com Author two award winning novels Snap Me a Future and A Mouthful of Shell available www.dlsijpress.com