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 have joined the faculty of the low residency MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Alaska Anchorage to teach memoir. The first residency will begin July 13, 2008. For more information, contact Kathleen Tarr at 907 786 4394 or afkt1@uaa.alaska.edu. For more information click here.

April 19 - 27, 2008
SPAIN: at The Old Olive Press in Relleu, not far from Alicante:
Landscape and Memory: A Memoir Workshop. This workshop will address the literary memoir with a particular emphasis on place. Whether exploring the natural world or a city neighborhood, we'll dig beneath the surface for history, characters and stories rooted there. Readings, craft discussions and prompts will generate new material, or take your existing draft to a new level. Anyone who has taken a memoir workshop or will read Writing the Memoir (Barrington) ahead of time is welcome. 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: oldolivepress.com

April 28 - May 3, 2008
ENGLAND: at The Arvon Foundation's Totleigh Barton center in Devon.
Writing the Memoir: from Life to Art co-taught with Horatio Clare, author of Running for the Hills which won a Somerset Maugham Award in 2007 and Truant: Notes from the Slippery Slope. He was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year award in 2007. Totleigh Barton is a thatched, pre-Domesday (1086) manor house, surrounded by farmland in one of the most peaceful and beautiful parts of Devon, two miles from the village of Sheepwash. It has rights-of-way across surrounding countryside with access to the nearby River Torridge. Contact: arvonfoundation.org

July 13 - 24 , 2008
MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Alaska Anchorage
See above.

September 20 – 21, 2008
Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art, a weekend workshop at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in which we will explore issues of both craft and ethics that arise for the writer of literary memoir. Some of the craft topics we will discuss are: the use of the retrospective voice; moving around in time on the page; how to bring the wider world into a personal story; using the fictional techniques of “scene” and “summary,” as well as the retrospection that is characteristic of memoir. Ethical questions we may discuss include: writing about living people and what is a “true” story, given the unreliability of memory. There will be writing exercises during the workshop, designed to get you started on personal stories, as well as to get at the deeper meaning of stories you have written or told before. We will share work generated during the weekend, and suggest ways to continue what is begun there. This will not be a workshop in which we will critique previously-written work. Sitka is located on the central Oregon coast at Cascade Head Ranch near the Salmon River estuary, within view of the Pacific Ocean. You can get more information and register at the Sitka web site.

October 25, 2008
A one-day workshop at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR: Reading Culture (England)--Are you dreaming of a future voyage to England?  If you are planning a trip or simply want to delve into twentieth and twenty-first-century literature, this one-day class will direct you to a rich variety of works by contemporary and recent British writers.  From Virginia Woolf to Ian McEwan, from John Fowles to A.S. Byatt, and from Andrew Motion to Jeannette Winterson, we'll gallop through discussions of as many writers as we can.  Whether  familiar or new, each has much to tell us about England in these times. For more information: 503-768-6040 or ccps@lclark.edu

Nov 6 – 9, 2008
The Nature of Words in Bend, Oregon: In its fourth year, Central Oregon's premier literary event will present another outstanding roster of authors in fiction, literary nonfiction and poetry for its November 2008 festival. One of the featured authors, Judith Barrington will give a reading and two workshops. info@thenatureofwords.org, www.thenatureofwords.org

READINGS & APPEARANCES
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July, 2008
Reading with Anne Caston at U. Alaska at Anchorage. More information will be posted.

November, 2008
Reading at The Nature of Words, Bend, Oregon. More information will be posted.

2007 – 2008: Poetry in Motion Look for a poem by Judith on Portland, Oregon public transportation. For more information click here.

LOOKING FOR
A WRITING MENTOR?
Judith is a web mentor for the Split Rock Arts Program. She works with writers on poetry or memoir through exchanges via the program's web site.

LISTEN
to the author read her work on the audio CD, Harvest: Selected Poems 1985–2004.