Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced
A three-day generative writing workshop for artists and writers to explore and engage together in a supportive environment. Making notes and lists of the raw materials of our surroundings in the Catskills, we will transform those delving’s into short forms of poetry or prose. Workshop includes in-class prompts, explorations of landscape and objects to inspire new methods of harnessing creativity, and roundtable discussions of student work. The goal of this workshop is to open new doors, draft new beginnings, and return home with writing inspired by our experience together in these fabled mountains. With this beloved instructor, we offer one guarantee: all minds will be opened.
Vince Montague is a maker and a poet. Receiving his Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from NYU in 1989, Montague began publishing short stories in literary magazines including, California Quarterly, Westwind, The Florida Review, Nimrod, and Green Mountain Review. For 20 years, he has taught at colleges and universities throughout the Bay Area and has been an artist-in-residence at Carrizozo AIR, Playa Summer Lake, and Willapa Bay. Montague has been a professional studio artist since 2014, and recently, Latah Books published his memoir, Cracked Pot.
Course Fee: $300 + $30 Lab Fee + $40 Non-Refundable Registration Fee