Summer Workshop Program 2023

The most helpful writing workshops are ones in which the group acts as a single organism, its sole purpose being to help the piece of work at hand become its best possible self. Memoir, fiction — it’s all storytelling. Whether you’re bringing in pages of a memoir-in-progress or a work of fiction, we will approach the page with an eye towards structure, character, voice, place, and detail. Find the tenacity and take-no-prisoners courage to do your finest work.
By July 30, please submit to ssiegel@fawc.org up to 12 pages (double-spaced, 12 point font) of a piece of fiction or memoir you wish to be workshopped.
Biography
Dani Shapiro is a bestselling novelist and memoirist and host of the podcast Family Secrets. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vogue, and Time. She has taught at Columbia and New York University and is the co-founder of the Sirenland Writers Conference. Her new novel, Signal Fires, was published by Knopf in October 2022.