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June 2009 Blog Update:
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If FACEBOOK hasn't already taken over your life, here's an opportunity to increase the chance that it will. CLICK HERE to become "a fan" of The Lab. Past, present, and future Labbers and lovers of words drop by and contemplate quotes for/by/about writing and/or life and/or art. Also, up-to-date information about The Lab and the people in it.
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Since arriving in New York, I've been busy gathering ideas for Douglass Street 6, The Fall 2009 Lab, which starts Tuesday 9/8/9 and runs for 8 consecutive weeks. If you're interested, you can guarantee yourself a seat now. (The Fall session usually sells out a few weeks before it starts).
I've joined eventbrite to make signing up a breeze. Click Here for more info & to register. I'd also very much appreciate it if you'd forward this email to that friend who has been talking about taking a writing class for eons.
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Updates:
Douglass Street Lab, Session 5, had its public reading,"Douglass Speaks," on June 2nd at Farley's. What a joy is was hear the brilliantly re-visioned material generated in The Lab. I'm still gleaning inspiration from their work.
Thanks to the writers who read & thanks to everyone who came!
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This wasn't your momma's literary reading!
Sure there were the usual writers and word nerds gathered at the book table and sitting on barber chairs. Gathered among them were neighborhood regulars and flat-topped leather-queens and all genders of porn divas sharing cupcakes and vodkas and diet cokes as stories and poems were read.
Lorena Landeros, a former student from SFSU-turned-Labber-turned-friend brought my character Janis to life by reading a chapter from my almost-completed manuscript LETTERS TO THE DEAD. Lorelei Lee, another former-Labber, read her brilliant story before traversing the applauding crowd in a hot pink dress and cork platforms (she had to catch a cab and get to work). Wolf Larsen transitioned the shop from a buzzing intermission into stillness as she sang her hauntingly beautiful songs. As a finale, form-master Randall Mann seduced and bewildered the audience with his unflinching poems.
What a gift to be a part of such a special night. Thanks Michael & Lorelei & Randall & Wolf & Joe & Everyone who came out.
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NEW YORK HERE I AM!
I'm very lucky to have the chance to come New York for a few weeks every summer. My cousins Greg and Michael have no idea how valuable their hospitality. It's so much easier to find the extraordinary in the ordinary when I'm able to observe and explore another's ordinary for a while. (If that doesn't make sense to you, take The Lab, and it will).
NY's offerings light a fire under my you-know-what. I'll be participating in a reading here in NYC. Former-San Franciscans-now-Brooklynites and word nerds Evan Rehill and Anne-E Wood and I are reading at Cinders Gallery in Brooklyn on July 12th. I'll keep you posted with more details on Facebook in case you're in or will be in New York.
Here's to it! Thanks for reading.
Matthew
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Thanks for visiting my blog. Hope everyone receiving this is enjoying their Spring. San Francisco is having INCREDIBLE weather. As soon as I'm done with this entry, in fact, I'm off to Ft. Mason park with some sunscreen, a picnic, and pile of final papers from my writing students at San Francisco State.
This update contains:
*Fall 2009 Registration Douglass Street Lab
*Save The Dates! 2 Upcoming Readings
*Douglass Street 5 Update
*Matthew's New York Summer
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If you're interested in being a part of The Fall 2009 Lab, which starts Tuesday 9/8/9 and runs for 8 consecutive weeks, you can garauntee yourself a seat now. (The Fall session usually sells out quickly). I've joined eventbrite to make signing up a breeze. For more info & to register, CLICK HERE.
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Save the dates:
1. Douglass Street Lab Session 5 will be having its public reading "Douglass Speaks" on Tuesday June 2nd, so save the date! Exact time and location to be announced soon on The Lab's Facebook Page.
2. To help kick off the inaugural evening of "The Barbershop: A Reading Series," I will be reading (along with a very special guest) from my almost-completed manuscript LETTERS TO THE DEAD (a novel-in-progress) . Randall Mann and Lorelei Lee, both wildly talented writers, will also be reading. Please join us for the fun. There will be an optional $5 suggested donation to help cover the cost of snacks, chairs, wine, beverages, etc. Here's the info:
Saturday, June 6, 2009
8:00pm - 9:30pm
Joe's Barbershop
2150 Market Street (between Church and Sanchez)
San Francisco, CA
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Douglass Street 5 Update:
Last Tuesday Douglass 5 completed their 6th Session. We read an interview with Rafael Campo, who is, among other things, a gay Cuban-American, a Harvard Medical School physician and poet, who describes his writing process this way:
"I’ve been drawn so irresistibly to so-called received forms...they are physical touchstones that provide a kind of entrée into the arduous imaginative journey back to my lost, decrepit island, to inhabit the beautiful but forbidden body of my desire. So I try to rewrite the sonnet, pushing against its narrow walls, asking it to contain a not-so-different love; beneath the scaffolding of a villanelle, I imagine I might rebuild the fanciful architecture of crumbling Havana."
Members of The Lab, after reading the interview and one of Campo's poems, were then challenged to see what they could get onto paper about their characters using exactly thirteen lines (Campo's poem was five 13-line stanzas) under the catagorical prompts of: Injury, Esctasy, Dispair, & Repair.
While some of the members showed some initial resistance, the findings were INCREDIBLE. They were then encouraged to continue with or completely abandon the formal constraints of the exercize as their projects and vision deemed fit. THRILLING!
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NEW YORK HERE I COME!
After a quietly glorious year of writing and teaching and frequent immersion in San Francisco's art & performance scene, I'm putting the finishing touches on the first real definitive beginning-to-end draft of LETTERS TO THE DEAD to send to my agent and a couple of trusted readers.
Then I'm getting on a plane to New York to spend 6 weeks with Greg, Michael, Jetson, and Frizbee (my new canine nephew who I have yet to meet.)
I plan on recharging by immersion into New York's artistic offerings while doing the final revisions on the novel. I'm also very excited to get back into short fiction. I recently took an inventory of the stories I've written and hope to be able to compile them into my next manuscript.
I'll update you in June and July from New York.
Happy Late-Spring early summer everyone!
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Ahhh....Spring.
I'm not one who has a favorite season. Each one offers its delights and literary opportunities. And each one its challenges (tax preparation, for example). But on a singular practical note, as a motorcyclist, Spring rules! Still chilly enough so you're not suffering in thick leather. Warm enough so you're not screaming IT'S SO COLD in your helmet.
Spring is also time for MA & MFA application results. Each year the number of letters-of-recommendation I write increases. Partly because I teach more students now than I used to. But another part is that so many undergrads just begin to grasp the concepts of the craft of fiction, and the possibilities they offer, and then they graduate. They want more!
Each year I see talented writers and students get their rejection and acceptance letters. It's always bittersweet. And with all things subjective, it's always surprising. I've already heard reports from disappointed students, with whom I've had my 3-year-plan talk. So many think it's so crucial to continue their study RIGHT NOW and IN COLLEGE. I try to remind them that being a student of writing is about being awake. Noticing the world. Paying attention. READING. Questioning your assumptions about people. Being a writer, I tell them from experience, isn't about a degree or a book deal. I tell them that if what they really want is to go to an MFA program, they should plan on working on their prose as full-time as life will permit. Then reapply. In the meantime, make the world the classroom.
That said, I can't help but be thrilled when I hear back from former students (both at State and in The Lab) who report that they've gained acceptance into the various programs. Several of my former students will be MA/MFA students at SFSU. Others have been invited to attend Columbia University, NYU, Brooklyn College, University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Syracuse. These programs are so highly competitive it's practically staggering. So congratulations to them all.
Moving Forward:
Speaking of book deals... It's easy for me to hide behind process. Especially because I love teaching, and, unlike many other writers who teach SO they can write, I'm as happy with the word "teacher" as I am "writer" when people describe me. If I'm not careful, I can allow myself to think being a writer is solely about a way of seeing the world. I also got into a lot of trouble back when I'd just finished my MFA when I thought being a writer was solely about getting published.
In 2000, the year I turned 30 and finished my MFA, I got a story accepted to The Atlantic Monthly. From then on practically every short story I sent out got taken immediately. I had short piece up on the now-defunct EVO (Emerging Voices Online), the once-online version of The Mississippi Review. A New York agent contacted me after reading that story and asked if I had a novel. I did. It was, at the time, a controversial story about a young gay runaway who contracted HIV. Arguably on purpose. It was what I worked on the entire time I was in school. Both undergraduate and graduate. He read it. Loved it. Commented on it. I revised it. He signed me.
Looking back I can also see how my last year of grad school set me up to believe things that weren't true. Before my last year, I'd entered absolutely every contest available while in grad school. Both at SFSU and the wider local, State, and National. I received nothing but rejections for two years. Then, suddenly, in 2000, the floodgates opened. I won contests and grants. I had also been hired to teach from a highly-competitive pool of my peers. Nothing had changed except my luck. The only thing I could brag about was my persistence.
That combination of events really set me up to expect that my first novel would find a publisher. My agent was certain he could sell it. He had a plan. Then September 11th 2001 happened and things changed. The Atlantic delayed the publication of my story. My agent left. I got a new agent, but no one wanted my book.
At the time, I was living in Italy and trying to work on a second novel. I had nothing to send out because I hadn't written a short story in since college. My first novel took five years to write. The second project (which attempted to be a novel), I'd come to find out, was overly ambitious. Especially since I was trying to negotiate a new life in a new culture where I hadn't yet learned to speak the language. That project required the skill of Garcia Marquez or Toni Morrison in order to pull off what it was attempting. And frankly, I hadn't lived long enough in order to earn it! (I plan on going back to that material again on my 60th birthday).
I tried for a while to send out excerpts to keep my publications going—but since I hadn't found the central conflict in the "novel"—I couldn't find it in the scenes either—and none of them stood alone.
That phase of my life was not easy. But now I'm really glad I went through it. I see young (and old) writers who seem happy when they're publishing and miserable and competitive when they're not.
I do not want to live my life that way.
It took a long time for me to get over the disappointments. I had to swallow my pride. For two years after I moved back to the U.S. and had started teaching at State again, I supplemented my income by waiting on tables. Sometimes my students would end up in my restaurant. It was humbling, to say the least, to recite the fish specials to the students who had been in my classrooms at a University.
There, I discovered what was important to me. I wanted to concentrate my energies on regaining a practice. On seeing how i might bring rigor and excellence into the classroom. I sought out opportunities to be of service to the communities that had been so good to me. I started working for Performing Arts Workshop. First as the Artist-in-Residence at LYRIC, then as an Artist Mentor. Once again, I was humbled by these people whose lives weren't defined by the outward successes of their own careers (which they were having all the time), but by what they were contributing to their communities. I'm lucky because I work with folks both at SF State and at Performing Arts Workshop who're so active as voices for their communities. Reading at fund raisers. Offering their time. Their names. Their endorsements. They're incredible educators. They bring artistry to teaching. And I really get why they're contented with their lives.
I tried the best I could to take their lead. To reconnect to how I was raised (both of my parents have always been very active volunteers and community participants). Then, finally, a new idea for a novel came to me. And now it's time to finish it. I received a grant for the manuscript when the work was in its early stages. Because of the huge generosity of a good friend (who happens to be my cousin) and his partner, I have a place to go and write in the summer, away from what could distract me here.
Now its time to finish.
The manuscript will require, as all manuscripts do, revision. But still, I have so little left to do (comparatively speaking) to get the story to my agent and couple of trusted readers.
Those in my field who I admire, the ones I was describing before, do not contribute to their communities or bring passion and rigor to their classrooms INSTEAD OF moving forward in their art forms. They do it in part BECAUSE they're always moving forward and finding new ways to express themselves.
DOUGLASS STREET LAB UPDATE:
The January Lab was one of the best yet. Highlights were a visit from Nona Caspers (above) who read from her book A Little Book of Days and discussed with The Lab participants how to look for the extraordinary which emerges from the ordinary. We were lucky to be the first stop on her tour!
Another highlight was the public reading we held:
Above, Labber Zach Grear reads to a roomful of word lovers as the fog moved east across the city as the sun set in the windows all around us.
There's another shot. A whole album of pictures exists if you'd like to become a "fan" of "The Lab" on FACEBOOK.
Speaking of The Lab, I still have 3 slots for the next 8-week session which starts April 8th. Scroll down to see how to sign up.
Thanks for reading and, as always, all my best with your reading and writing.
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"Douglass Street 4" is off to a great start. This time we have published writers, MFAs, and people who started writing in first grade who have never sent out a story or taken a creative writing class. We have designers, performers, students, retail sales people, and former glass blowers. (Well, one glass blower that I know of, but it sounds better in the plural).
I'm always blown away by the deep, unexpected places people go. Perhaps it's the intimate relaxed atmosphere at Mark's place on Douglass Street. Perhaps it's that we don't do big corny introductions. Instead, we trust that the work we produce will allow others to know us. Perhaps people who sign up for The Lab are ready to work hard and take risks. Maybe it's a combo. Whatever the case, it sure is a pleasure.
Here's one of the prompts we've used after considering & discussing a bunch of provocative quotes:
"There are things I’ve done that I’m proud of, and there are things I’ve done that I’m ashamed. But back then, it seemed like everything I did filled me with both..."
Try writing it as your first couple of lines and then see where it takes you...
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As this session of The Lab sold out several weeks in advance, I've had several people from the waiting list ask if they can pre-register for the next Lab.
The answer is YES. We will be doing the next 8-week Lab starting on Tuesday 4/7/09 running weekly until 5/26/09 (these dates are subject to change slightly). They run from 7-9:30 at Mark's beautiful house on 21st and Douglass, =distant from The Castro and Noe Valley. See pictures here.
To secure yourself a slot, please carefully read the payment/refund policies on the registration form. A $100 NON-REFUNDABLE administration fee, applicable toward the total tuition ($395), can hold your spot until 4/1, at which time all fees are due. The 12 slots (there are 13 total participants, including the host) are sold on a first-registered, first-served basis.
Thanks for reading and happy writing!
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If you're interested in a 1-on-1 manuscript consultation, click here for more info.
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UPDATE 1/1/09: SOLD OUT!
Please email me to join the official waiting list, and if you haven't already, please sign up for the mailing list to get advanced notice for future sessions of The Lab.
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Dear Friends and Writers,
First, Happy Holidays and a big huge THANK YOU to everyone who has spread the word about The Douglass Street Writing Lab. 2008 was a great year for The Labs. We held 3 sessions where word lovers of all sorts inspired each other to begin writing or to continue writing or to write more deeply or committed-ly. We've had dancers and yoga teachers and moms and non-profit workers and bakers and gardeners and even a writer or two...
A few of us started projects. A few continued. A few even finished work to send out. And now a couple of the Douglass Street Writers are waiting to hear from the MFA programs to which they've applied.
Our three readings, which we held at local-non-corporate-"family"-owned businesses, were well-attended, short-and-sweet, and FUN (fun is always a delightful surprise when it comes to "literary" readings)!
So THANKS again to everyone who has signed up, showed up, supported, forwarded, talked about or recommended The Lab.
Because I want The Lab to be different from what one might find in the standard fiction/memoir writing class, I always look for inspiration for the discussions/prompts in seemingly-unlikely places. So far I've found them: carved into the sidewalk's cement outside of SF General Hospital's emergency room; in an old documentary where Picasso painted on film while talking about his process; in on online exhibition of an artist who paints, from memory, nearly-exact-replica photo-realistic paintings of his childhood town in Italy; and in a video-taped lecture delivered by a brain scientist who had a stroke. Those in addition to slices of incredible fiction, memoir, and essays on the craft of writing from which we've learned or sharpened practical tools before putting pen to paper.
In planning for January's Lab, I've been stealing writing ideas gleaned by taking a writing/movement class from Joe Goode; from seeing an outdoor production by Levy Dance; by going the plays The History Boys and The Quality of Life; from documentaries on: the singer/musician Bjork, on a bunch of graffiti artists, on the history of the Deaf community and ASL.
I'm planning on using a collection of excepts from fiction where the various writers delve into the subject of SEX when the intention is NOT to arouse or tantalize the reader.
I want to look at a scene of a woman's hair filmed in the wind from the movie "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" to talk about how scenes on the page might move from here to there.
I've thought of prompts listening to Toni Morrison speak to Michael Krasny at City Arts and Lectures; from a small book my friend Greg recommended called 101 THINGS I LEARNED IN ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL; from hearing Alanis Morrisette and Elisa in concert; and even from Brian Eno's Iphone application "Bloom." Of course, too, as always, I've been stealing ideas from the often genius observations and insights from my students at San Francisco State.
I can't wait to see what happens in the next session.
If this sounds interesting to you, even if you haven't been writing or never have considered yourself a writer, contact me. If you know someone who might enjoy this kind of class, please send them a link to this page.
Douglass Street Lab is where people who love words take their writing, not themselves, seriously.
Fiction, Creative Non, and Beyond
A Creative Writing Laboratory 8-week Session
When: 8 consecutive Tuesdays, starting August, 2009.
What time: 7-9:30pm.
Where: A spacious private home near both the Castro and Noe Valley with easy parking and access to MUNI (pictured, above).
Cost: $395.00
Intimate writing laboratory (a place to research, experiment, measure, review, and revise) for all levels.
LOTS MORE INFORMATION:
on the lab
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REGISTRATION FORM
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What Previous Participants Have Said About The Lab:
| “Receiving instruction from Matthew Davison reaps benefits that work double-time! Not only will you get skilled and effective guidance to strengthen your writing, you will receive it from someone who is whole-heartedly invested and committed to your specific goals and desires. Further, he teaches his students how to read more effectively, which undoubtedly makes us better writers." –Steve Dershimer, Winter & Spring 2008 Douglass Street Participant.
“Matthew is an insightful, uniquely personal instructor with an understated yet well-prepared and confident approach. Not only did I improve my writing craft and critical reading skills, but the vibe was devoid of pretension, filled with helpful, supportive discussion. Beginning to well-seasoned writers are well served by Douglass Street.” –John Yi, Spring ’08 Douglass Street Lab Participant.
“Matthew’s workshop fit in perfectly with my schedule and opened an extremely productive space for my writing. It was great to hear other participants’ interpretations of the creative prompts. Matthew’s facilitation mixed beautiful examples of theory with practical application of concepts, always with a smile. I found it very applicable and looked forward to the workshop each week. This is a great opportunity for anyone who wants to explore their own writing in the company of like-minded folks.” –Anne Trickey, Winter & Spring 2008 Douglass Street Participant.
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Start Your New Year Off Write!
Douglass Street Writing Laboratory Winter 2009 Session
On a roll with your writing? Need a shot in the arm? Have you been procrastinating? Need some structure? Fun?
Fiction, Creative Non, and Beyond
A Creative Writing Laboratory
When: 8 consecutive Tuesdays, starting January 20th, 2009.
What time: 7-9:30pm.
Where: A spacious private home near both the Castro and Noe Valley with easy parking and access to MUNI.
Cost: $395.00
Intimate writing laboratory (a place to research, experiment, measure, review, and revise) for all levels.
- Experienced writers should expect to build upon their craft skills and deepen their characterizations.
- "Beginners" should expect to learn a useful, creative writing vocabulary and to experience how precision, concreteness, expansiveness, and generosity work together to form compelling and scintillating prose.
- All should expect to take their work, but not themselves, seriously (plan to have fun WHILE digging deep in an environment that will be at once focused and relaxed).
Non-writer-identified folks, avid readers, and creative artists (actors, dancers, musicians, etc.) are welcomed, encouraged to attend.
Class Size: 8-13 people.
Notes:
- You will not be responsible to write written feedback for your peers. Reading/feedback will take place in "the lab" and there will be the option of posting and responding online in between sessions.
- The Douglass Lab is also home to a cat, should that be relevant to you.
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I had such a great summer. Not just the 5-week writing stint in New York, but I also enjoyed a visit from my momma (who is the world's best motorcycle passenger. She practices reiki on me while we drive). My younger brother Paul, and his wife and daughter, Terese and Amara, also trekked from Colorado Springs to the Bay Area, and were surprised by the chilly late-July-weather. They quickly gave up on Half Moon Bay (where they'd hoped for a warm & relaxing beach weekend) and joined mom and me for tours of Golden Gate Park, the Chihuli exhibit, the Palace of Fine Arts, etc. We even attempted to get tickets to Alcatraz—but with the Euro so high and dollar so low we didn't stand a chance.
Soon after they left, we got together again, this time in Pittsburgh, to celebrate my older brother Jon's 40th (which was a great excuse to gather up all four of my nieces). There are few things on earth that are a better match than my being an uncle to four girls ages 1-10!
This summer could not have been better.
And now it's back to work. I celebrate my New Year in late August with the beginning of the academic year. I love teaching! I'm underway with Craft of Fiction and Short Story Writing at SFSU, where I'm also the faculty adviser for the literary magazine class Fourteen Hills. What a thrill it was to walk in to Fourteen Hills on my first day and see a half-dozen former undergrad students who are now new students in the MA and MFA programs. The others in the class aren't only new to State, but also to San Francisco, to California. Imagine the courage it takes to up and move your whole life in the pursuit of becoming a better writer. I admire artists for their courage and determination.
I'm instantly reminded that SFSU is like almost no other in the mix of people it brings to its classes. The things that make their program a challenge, especially the undergrad program: class-size, wait-lists, rooms that are often too small or not seemingly conducive to the creative process (I like circles, not rows, and it takes a huge room to get 40 people into a circle)...are all of the things that make it a joy. Like forms with constraints, it's always a surprise to see what will arise from within the limitations.
We held the first artist orientation at Performing Arts Workshop on Saturday and I start mentoring my first artist next week. I can't believe how lucky I am to be around theater artists, martial artists, drummers, hip-hop performers, and dancers of all types. It's just so good what happens when artists and artistic types of all kinds get in the same room.
Speaking of which, the third cycle of the Douglass Street Lab is in full swing. Here's a picture I found of Brad, a former Lab participant. He's getting his notebook and pen while I finished setting up.
I love Mark's place on Douglass Street. Contrasting State's tight classrooms with desk rows and florencent lighting, at Douglass street we look out to a mosiac tile and plant garden with coy pond.
 
Natural light illuminates the gorgeous hard word and Mark's blown glass collection while we sit and write.
This cycle's is another great group. Half of the people are former-students from State and half people who I've met for the first time in The Lab. Our class felt supercharged on Tuesday. We looked at "change" from a slightly different angle. We agreed that we aren't interested in stories where giant epiphanies abound; where realizations come marching in with their accompanying uniformed bands with trumpets blaring and cymbals (and symbols) smashing against one another. We looked at how change is sometimes thrust upon us and our characters by life. We talked about how most people change not because they want to—but because either 1) their behavior stopped working or 2) because life: a hurricane, faulty birth control, a call from an estraged relative, etc; intruded. So we started writing from this prompt, a line from a short story by Mary Morris: “Look again, I told myself, still unable to decide what bothered me, what seemed wrong...”
I'm grateful for the response and in answer to the question: The next Douglass Street Lab will begin in January. If you'd like me to hold you a spot, please email me: matthew at matthewclarkdavison dot com.
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Douglass Street Writing Laboratory Fall Session SOLD OUT
On a roll with your writing? Need a shot in the arm? Have you been procrastinating? Need some structure? Fun?
Fiction, Creative Non, and Beyond
A Creative Writing Laboratory
When: 8 consecutive Tuesdays, starting August 26th, 2008.
What time: 7-9:30pm.
Where: A spacious private home near both the Castro and Noe Valley with easy parking and access to MUNI.
NEXT SESSION STARTS IN JANUARY '09. SCROLL DOWN TO JOIN THE MAILING LIST.
Intimate writing laboratory (a place to research, experiment, measure, review, and revise) for all levels.
- Experienced writers should expect to build upon their craft skills and deepen their characterizations.
- "Beginners" should expect to learn a useful, creative writing vocabulary and to experience how precision, concreteness, expansiveness, and generosity work together to form compelling and scintillating prose.
- All should expect to take their work, but not themselves, seriously (plan to have fun in an environment that will be at once focused and relaxed).
Non-writer-identified folks, avid readers, and creative artists (actors, dancers, musicians, etc.) are welcomed, encouraged to attend.
Class Size: 8-12 people.
Notes:
- You will not be responsible to write written feedback for your peers. Reading/feedback will take place in "the lab" and there will be the option of posting and responding online in between sessions.
- The Douglass Lab is also home to a cat, should that be relevant to you.
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