Nina McConigley will be teaching our 2020 Yearlong Writers Workshop beginning at Summer Fishtrap next July!
Apply below.
Telling Your Story: A Fiction and Creative Nonfiction Workshop
We’ve all heard the old adage to “write what you know,” but how do you tell story of your life? In this year-long writing workshop, you will use your own history and experiences to transform your life stories into fiction, or find your story truths in memoir or creative nonfiction. Together, we will explore using the incidents of our lives to tell compelling stories with truth at their center. We’ll explore our own identities, and mine our memories to generate new material. We’ll learn how to take real life experience and fictionalize it, and how to write with autobiographical accuracy in nonfiction.
Nina McConigley is the author of the story collection Cowboys and East Indians, which won the 2014 PEN Open Book Award and a High Plains Book Award. She was born in Singapore and grew up in Wyoming. She holds an MFA from the University of Houston and an MA from the University of Wyoming. She was named by Glamour Magazine as one of ‘50 Phenomenal Women Making a Difference’ in 2014, and her book was named one of 2014’s Best Prize Winning books by O Oprah Magazine. She has been a fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and held scholarships to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and for The Best New American Voices. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Orion, Salon, Virginia Quarterly Review, American Short Fiction, and The Asian American Literary Review among others. She lives in Laramie, Wyoming and teaches at the University of Wyoming and at the MFA program at the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. She is currently the Walter Jackson Bate fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
2020-2021 Yearlong Workshop Tuition
$7,250 or $6,750 if paid in full by July 6, 2020
A $558 non-refundable deposit is required to hold your spot in the class.
Tuition is due in monthly payments of $558 starting July 6, 2020.
Tuition Includes
- Registration and Workshop instruction for the July 6-12 2020 and July 12-18, 2021 Summer Fishtrap Gatherings.
- All individual instruction during the Yearlong Writers’ Workshop course.
Tuition does NOT include
- Lodging or meals for the 2020 and 2021 Weeklong Summer Fishtrap Gatherings
- Transportation to or from Summer Fishtrap
- Materials and postage expenses
- Communications expenses
Registration for this year’s workshop is now closed.