Twelfth Annual Writers Workshop
July 23-27, 2008

Greetings from Sarah Bewley!

This year we have some very exciting changes to the workshop, many of which were suggested by participants in the past year.

First of all - shorter days! Not shorter time spent at the workshop, but we will end the days earlier. How? you say. What madness is this?

Well, our evening events will begin at 5:30 pm each day (except for the Rawlings’ house visit on Thursday). There will be a reception from 5:00 to 5:30, and then at 5:30 we will begin our evening events, which will end at 7:30. This way you can go to dinner right after you finish, and go straight back to your hotel to rest, or out to see more of Gainesville in the evening if you wish.

Secondly, we are introducing this year our first four part intensive fiction workshop. Michael Knight bravely agreed to do it, and we think this will be a successful new companion to our intensive four part poetry workshop.
Best of all, we’re offering not only great returning faculty, but some amazing new ones! New to our workshop is agent Janet Reid, Bleak House book editor Benjamin LeRoy, screenwriter Jamie Pachino, fantasy writer Linda Evans, children’s writer Marisa Carbone Finotti, and all the
way from Scotland, playwright and author Margaret McSeveney.

It’s going to be a great and exciting summer, and I look forward to seeing you there!

Sarah Bewley
Writers Programs Coordinator

E-mail: SarahBewley@sarahbewley.com
Toll Free: 888-917-7001

Writing the Region
Gainesville Association for the Creative Arts
P.O. Box 12246
Gainesville, FL 32604

Pulitzer Prize winning author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, who made Cross Creek, Florida, her home for many years, successfully expressed her love and understanding of Florida's human and physical environment in her many books. She was a regional writer who spoke to people everywhere. Her example inspires this Writers Workshop.

About Our Sponsor

The Gainesville Association for the Creative Arts

The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Writers Workshop is one of the many activities and programs of the Gainesville Association for the Creative Arts. Serving the area for almost 40 years, the GACA also offers workshops in the arts to young people, age 2 to 18. The "arts" include everything from art to dance, from drama to piano. With its year-round program involving over 3000 students and 70 teachers, the GACA, along with hosting the Writers Workshop, sponsors a variety of related activities, such as: "Shakespeare, Summer, and Kids," where young people experience Shakespeare by staging his plays; workshops on "Writing for Children"; and improvisational theatrical groups for at-risk students.

The GACA's Edmea Settimelli Scholarship fund provides scholarships for hundreds of children each year. For more information or questions, please call or write: The Gainesville Association for the Creative Arts, P.O. Box 12246, Gainesville, FL 32604

Permission to use Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' name is granted by The Norton Baskin Literary Trust, John Sundeman, Trustee, 1 Sebastian Avenue, Ste C, Saint Augustine, FL 32084-3280, Telephone: (904) 824-2881, Ext. 114, Fax: (904) 824-2715