Read650’s Hudson Valley Writing Workshop
The Art & Soul of the Personal Narrative
A generative, prompt-driven day
Saturday, June 4, 2022 • 10AM to 6PM
Led by Kathy Curto, Rhonda Zangwill, and Steven Lewis, the daylong workshop will help you create and shape artful, dynamic writings—including the signature Read650 personal narrative. Lunch is included, as well as a closing reception where work can be shared and celebrated by all.
Read650 is a literary forum that creates performance opportunities for writers through curated live and digital performances celebrating the spoken word.
“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” — Louis L’Amour
Workshop Format
ARRIVAL
10:00 am - 10:30 am • Arrival and Settling; Coffee and Pastries
GROUP MEETING
10:30 am – 10:45 am • Gather to describe goals of workshop and structure of the day
MORNING SESSION
10:45 am – 1:15 pm • 2.5 hours, including two five minute breaks.
Split in small groups for three generative prompt-based mini workshop sessions,
one with each of the instructors.
BUFFET LUNCH
1:30 pm -2:15 pm
AFTERNOON SESSION
2:30 pm -5:00 pm • 2.5 hours, including two five minute breaks.
Split in small groups for three generative prompt-based mini workshop sessions,
one with each of the instructors.
READING/RECEPTION
5:00 pm-6:00 pm • Participants share their work from the day (voluntary) coffee/wine/beer, light snacks.
Limited to 15 writers • $299 registration fee* includes meals & closing reception / reading
*plus 3% credit card processing fee
“If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.” — Margaret Atwood
“The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that things can only get better.” — Stephen King
Gardiner, NY is 90 miles north of New York City and 60 miles north of Westchester County. Local lodging available. Ask us for details.
Limited to 15 writers • $299 registration fee* includes meals & closing reception / reading
*plus 3% credit card processing fee
Meet the Crew
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Kathy Curto
Kathy Curto teaches at Sarah Lawrence College Writing Institute, Montclair State University, The Writers Circle and elsewhere. She has also brought her work overseas to Italy, where she helped organize and facilitate creative workshops for writers and studio artists. The author of Not for Nothing-Glimpses into a Jersey Girlhood, Kathy's work has been featured in many literary journals as well as the New York Times, on NPR, and in the anthology Listen to Your Mother: What She Said Then, What We’re Saying Now.
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Rhonda Zangwill
Rhonda Zangwill has been teaching, mentoring, and coaching and cheering on creative writers and story-tellers since the turn of the century. Among her past and present word-wrangling partners are: Teachers & Writers Collaborative, Girls Write Now, PEN’s Prison Program, The Moth, the New York Writers Coalition and the Sirovich Senior Center. A quick Google might reveal her published work. Or not. (Some places still value paper over pixels.) A longtime resident of New York City, she recently joined Read650’s board.
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Steven Lewis
Read650 Senior Editor Steven Lewis is a former Mentor at Empire State College, a member of the Sarah Lawrence College Writing Institute faculty, and a longtime freelancer published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. His nonfiction books include Zen and the Art of Fatherhood, The ABCs of Real Family Values, and Fear and Loathing of Boca Raton. Novels include Take This, Loving Violet, A Hard Rain, and The Lights Around the Shore.
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