Tim Waggoner,
Commencing this year, the workshop is presented in partnership with University of Dayton.
One of the benefits of the new location is affordable housing for out-of-town participants at the Caldwell Apartments on University of Dayton’s campus.
Whether commuting locally or driving in, participants will have the opportunity to learn from a host of talented authors, July 8-14. Participants may opt for the Full Week experience, attending morning classes as well as selecting an afternoon seminar focused on fiction, creative nonfiction or poetry. Or, they may choose an A La Carte option, attending a smaller segment of the workshop. Options are available for all schedules, writing levels and budgets.
Registration for attending the full conference is open through June 16 on the workshop’s website, www.antiochwritersworkshop.com. A La Carte registration is open through July 5.
Keynoter and Sunday Morning Creative Writing Craft instructor is
(www.whatever. scalzi.com), a science fiction author and former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He is best known for his Old Man’s War series, three novels of which have been nominated for the Hugo Award, and for his blog Whatever, at which he has written frequently on a number of topics since 1998. His novel Redshirts won the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novel. John is also the recipient of the 2016 Ohio Governor’s
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Award for an Individual Artist.
Scalzi’s keynote, which will be delivered at University of Dayton, is Saturday, July 8 at 7 p.m., is free and open to the public. The workshop is able to provide this free event, as well as faculty and participant readings July 9-13 and other free events throughout the year, thanks to a grant from the Ohio Arts Council.
A “Saturday Seminar” on July 8 will be held before the keynote as a “prologue” to the weeklong workshop, and may be attended by itself or as part of the workshop week. Featured speaker is Jessica Strawser, editorial director of Writer’s Digest magazine and author of the novel “Almost Missed You.”
Faculty with local ties include Tim Waggoner, Kristina McBride, Jamey Dunham, Julie L. Moore, Trudy Krisher, Dave Essinger, Susan Pohlman and Jeffrey Marks. Faculty from around the country includes award-winning mystery novelist Lori Rader-Day (“The Day I Died”), best-selling nonfiction author Matthew Goodman (“Eighty Days”), novelist Crystal Wilkinson (“The Birds of Opulence”) and other instructors. Agent Kari Sutherland (the Bradford Literary Agency) and editor Kevin Morgan Watson (Press 53) will also be on hand to take pitches and answer questions about the business of publishing.
Young Writers (ages 15-18, or entering their sophomore-senior years of high school) from the greater Miami Valley have the opportunity as well to attend the full week workshop, participating in morning classes with all attendees, and then breaking off into their own afternoon seminar to share their work and hone creative writing craft.
The Young Writers session will be led by local author Kristina McBride (www.kristinamcbride. com). Young writers have until May 31 to apply; for details and application instructions, visit www. antiochwritersworkshop. com, then click on Programs/Summer/Young Writers on the drop down menus.
In addition to its partnership with University of Dayton and grant support from the Ohio Arts Council, Antioch Writers’ Workshop receives support and sponsorship from WYSO 91.3 FM, Books & Co. at The Greene, and local businesses in and Dayton.
And on a personal note… the Antioch Writers’ Workshop has long been a major part of my own literary life, and I hope you’ll make it part of yours, too. Local author
for his novella “The Winter Box.” Tim won the 2016 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction, presented on April 29, 2017 by the Horror Writers Association at the StokerCon2017 conference. Tim is the author of nearly thirty novels, three story collections, and numerous stories published in an array of journals. He also teaches creative writing at Sinclair Community College and will be leading an afternoon seminar in fiction writing at this summer’s Antioch Writers’ Workshop. Learn more about Tim at www.timwaggoner. com Ellis Woods Higgins Clark Scottoline Patterson et al. Jessica Shattuck Gaiman Amor Towles Shreve
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