2025 Summer Workshop Program
Our Tiered Tuition System asks you to choose one of the following tuition levels:
$900 - Sustaining Level
$800 - Standard Level
$700 - Subsidized Level
$500 - Student/Teacher Level
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As writers, we strive to make magic, to elicit emotions using only strokes of ink. By employing our own bodies in the crafting of new worlds, new experiences, and new energy, we empower our stories to invoke a corporeal experience that is rooted in place. We will explore methods for infusing physical sensation and environmental awareness into our writing through practice, observation, and structure. Primarily a generative workshop, there will be in-class writing opportunities and prompts for extended exercises. We will discuss the major craft elements of character, creating tension through structure, dialogue, setting, and imagery in long and short form fiction.
Biography
Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
, a citizen of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, resides in Qualla, NC. She holds degrees from Yale University and the College of William and Mary. Her debut novel, Even As We Breathe (UPK 2020), was a finalist for the Weatherford Award, named one of NPR’s Best Books of 2020, and received the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award (2021). It also is the first novel published by a citizen of the Eastern Band of Cherokee. Clapsaddle’s work appears in outlets such as Yes! Magazine, Lit Hub, bon appetit, Our State Magazine, and The Atlantic.
