CLASSES & WORKSHOPS
Please contact the organization listed for further information on times, prices, and locations. To see where Judith has previously taught, click here.

I am on the faculty of the low residency MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Alaska Anchorage teaching memoir. For more information, contact Kathleen Tarr at 907 786 4394 or afkt1@uaa.alaska.edu or click here for the website.

February 19 through 23, 2010
San Miguel Writers’ Conference
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
Keynote address and mini workshop during the weekend conference, February 19 -21.
"The People and Places in your Memoir": Two-day writing workshop, February 22 and 23, 10 am to 2 pm.
Nestled in the Sierra Madres north of Mexico City, San Miguel de Allende has made a name for itself in writing circles around the world. For more information click here for the website.

April 24 – May 1, 2010
SPAIN: at The Old Olive Press in Relleu, not far from Alicante:
 “The Heart of the Story: Memoirist as Explorer”
This course will focus on getting to the heart of your story. This is what Grace Paley called finding "the story under the story," and is the subject of Vivian Gornick's book, "The Situation and the Story." It’s not enough simply to recount the events; when we write memoir we must struggle to dig deeper, to unearth the elusive truth that needs to emerge from the story unfolding on the page. We must push ourselves, using retrospection, to find out what we might not yet know. Sometimes it takes getting a new perspective or a different angle on the tale to discover what can make a memoir truly memorable for both writer and reader. This course is designed to encourage that process. The workshop will be limited to about twelve participants and held in a lovely retreat center run by British poet, Christopher North and his Spanish wife, Marisa. Listed through The Poetry School in Britain and on The Old Olive Press's own program of art and writing workshops, more information and photos at: www.oldolivepress.com

READINGS & APPEARANCES
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April 6, 10:30 a.m.
Trimet Media Event for “Poetry in Motion”
Lobby of the Portland Center for Performing Arts:
Judith will announce the winners of the public vote for new poems to be displayed on the buses, and will give a short reading from her own work and from other local poets’ work soon to be seen on Trimet.

LISTEN

Podcast of a reading at the University of Alaska with Sherry Simpson and David Stevenson, July 2009 click here.

Podcast of a reading at the University of Alaska with Anne Caston, July 2008 click here.

Judith's poem "Crows" read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer's Almanac, July, 2006.

The author reads her work on the audio CD, Harvest: Selected Poems 1985–2004.