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Seven Challenges to the Practice

A dialogue & writing intensive with

Lezlie Laws & Philip F. Deaver

Lezlie Laws and Philip Deaver bring you into their ongoing conversation about writing, the writing life, and cranking it out. A full-day writing intensive based on their dialogue, "Seven Challenges to the Practice."

Join them as they address some hard issues faced by writers, such as getting started, when things go wrong, what are the rules, and fear of the truth. They'll share their individual perspectives and talk them through. Their conversation will be accompanied by seven writing prompts to open new vistas and send you into new work.

Fun, positive, and productive.

Lezlie Laws is a professor of English at Rollins College where she teaches writing and literature courses in Creative Nonfiction. She is an essayist by bent (Bush League Essays, Millennial Letters, and Shifting Gears), but has recently taken a brave turn toward poetry. Her essays on teaching and writing have appeared in English Journal, Journal of Teaching Writing, Thought and Action, among others.

When she’s not teaching, advising students, conducting workshops, or writing, Lezlie is a student of Buddhism and ashtanga yoga. The lessons from these two practices have inspired her to teach innovative courses and workshops exploring the ways that yoga and breath work influence the creative process.  She is working on a collection of writing prompts, called Twelve Doors, forthcoming this fall.

Philip F. Deaver is the 13th winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and his book is Silent Retreats. He has held fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts and Bread Loaf. His work, which can be found mostly in the literary magazines, has appeared in Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards and has been recognized in Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize. Many of his current stories are set in a fictionalized version of his hometown, Tuscola, Illinois.

He also writes poetry. His poems have appeared in magazines such as The Reaper, Poetry Miscellany, and the Florida Review and are collected in a volume entitled How Men Pray, published by Anhinga Press. Philip Deaver is Professor of English and permanent Writer in Residence at Rollins College and teaches on the poetry and fiction faculties in the Spalding University Brief Residency Master of Fine Arts Program.

Treat yourself to a full day of writing, learning, and community on the beautiful Rollins campus.

Lunch included.