Joyce Maynard's Writing Workshop

Write by the Sea

Saturday, August 6 to Saturday August 13

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Join award-winning author and teacher Joyce Maynard for her tenth annual writing workshop. Spend the week exploring memoir, fiction, personal narrative or non-fiction, with a workshop session dedicated to exploring a manuscript of each participating writer.

Guest Faculty: Amanda Eyre-Ward and Hope Edelman.

Registration: see conference website or call (216) 280-5455.

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