The 2010 "Write Like I Do" Season Announced!
WORKSHOP TICKETS ARE $30 EACH
Tickets are available through Brown Paper Tickets
All workshops start at 7PM and take place at 826 Seattle.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 7PM
HOW TO INTERVIEW SOURCES FOR NON-FICTION WRITING
(and How to Tell When They are Lying)
with Charles R. Cross
One of the most important skills for any writer to learn is how to properly interview sources. Often, aspiring writers put excessive amounts of energy into crafting prose, ignoring the quality of the source material used to create their thesis. For a biography, interviews are usually the foundation upon which a book is built, but they are also vital to journalism, memoir, script writing, and historical fiction. For Charles R. Cross’s 2005 book, Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix, he interviewed 325 people—and a dozen of them were liars who could have scuttled the book, and history, without proper interviewing truth-seeking techniques. In this one-night workshop, Cross will address some of the basics of interviewing techniques, but he also will discuss how to determine the validity of subjects—an increasingly important aspect to writing in an era of fabrication and scandal.
ABOUT CHARLES: Charles R. Cross is the author of seven books, including Led Zeppelin: Shadows Taller Than Our Souls released in October 2009 by It/Harper Collins. Heavier Than Heaven, his biography of Kurt Cobain, won the ASCAP Award for Outstanding Biography in 2002 and is presently being made into a theatrical film. Cross was editor of The Rocket, the Seattle music magazine, from 1986 through 2000. His writing has appeared in numerous magazines including Rolling Stone, Esquire, Playboy, Spin, and Spy. His writing has also appeared in dozens of newspapers including the London Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Seattle Times, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He lectures and teaches at a number of colleges on both journalism and pop culture. He has taught interviewing techniques at a number of writing workshops, and he occasionally is hired by law firms to present this class.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 - 7PM
HOW TO DO WHAT ACTORS DO -
BUT ON THE PAGE, NOT ON THE STAGE
with Stephanie Kallos
The only thing that qualifies Stephanie Kallos to teach this class is the fact that she spent 20 years in the theatre as an actress. In this one-night workshop, learn how much novelists have in common with actors and how some of the most basic tools of the actor’s trade will help you write better fiction.
ABOUT STEPHANIE: Stephanie Kallos spent 20 years in the theatre as an actress and a teacher of voice, speech, and dialects. Her first novel, Broken for You, was chosen by Sue Monk Kidd as a Today Show book club selection; a national best seller, it was translated into ten languages and adapted for the stage. Her second novel, Sing Them Home, was an Indie Next selection, a Shelf Awareness Pick of the Year, and a PNBA best seller. Stephanie lives in a North Seattle neighborhood where sightings of men in kilts are common. Her website: www.stephaniekallos.com
Tuesday, June 8, 2010 - 7PM
HOW TO PERFORM LIKE I DO
with Karen Finneyfrock
 Whether it's a book tour, lecturing, or reading poems, at some point all writers find themselves in front of an audience. Learn the tricks of the trade from a bona fide performance poet, and look like you know what you're doing up there.
ABOUT KAREN: Karen Finneyfrock has been honored as a “Poetry Slam Legend.” Her new book of poems, Ceremony for the Choking Ghost is forthcoming from Write Bloody Press. An alumna of Hedgebrook, Karen recently completed a novel titled Celia, the Dark and Weird. She is a Writer-in-Residence at Richard Hugo House.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010 - 7PM
HOW TO WRITE ABOUT MUSIC
WITHOUT SOUNDING LIKE A LIAR
with Carrie Brownstein
What's written about music will never be as important as the music itself—unless the music is awful. In that case, your writing might be the best thing that's ever happened to a certain musician or band. This one-night class will help writers find ways of embarking on music journalism and criticism through a creative writing lens. Don't let writing about music destroy your love for it. And don't let your writing destroy other people’s love of music either!
 ABOUT Carrie: Carrie Brownstein is a writer, musician, and performer. She was a member of the critically acclaimed rock band Sleater-Kinney. Brownstein's writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Believer, Pitchfork, and numerous book anthologies on music and culture. She writes a music blog for National Public Radio called Monitor Mix and is a contributor to NPR’s All Songs Considered. Four of Brownstein's essays were chosen for the book Best Music Writing 2009 (Da Capo Press). She also wrote an essay on Washington State for the critically acclaimed book State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America (Ecco). Along with Fred Armisen (Saturday Night Live), she is one-half of the comedic duo ThunderAnt. Brownstein currently lives in New York City, where she is working on her first book of nonfiction to be published by Ecco/Harper Collins.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - 7PM
HOW TO WRITE AND DRAW A GRAPHIC NOVEL
(THE CRASH COURSE)
with David Lasky and Greg Stump
Graphic novels combine writing and images to tell stories in ways unlike any other medium. In a single evening, two graphic novelists will share many of their secrets and strategies to help you take the first steps toward a graphic novel (or shorter work) of your own. Prior drawing experience is not necessary.
 ABOUT DAVID: David Lasky was named Cartoonists Northwest's "Cartoonist of the Year" for 2009. His 20-year career includes the series Boom Boom and Urban Hipster (with Greg Stump), as well as a minicomic adaptation of Joyce's Ulysses. He is currently working on his first graphic novel (with writer Frank Young): Don't Forget This Song, the story of country music's Carter Family.
ABOUT GREG: Greg Stump's comics and illustrations have been appearing regularly in the weekly Seattle paper The Stranger for a decade. He is the creator of the weekly strip Dwarf Attack, the cocreator (with David Lasky) of the acclaimed comic book series Urban Hipster, and a longtime contributing writer for The Comics Journal. He teaches for a wide range of schools and organizations in the Seattle area, including Seattle University, Arts Corps, and Coyote Central.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - 7PM
HOW TO SUFFER FOR A STORY
with Brendan Kiley
 During his years at the Stranger, Brendan Kiley has done and suffered some unpleasant things. He has killed and butchered rabbits in his bathtub, been doused with pepper spray at the Republican National Convention (after showing his press credentials to police), gotten lost in the woods at night with a pack of wild coyotes, and turned his bare ass over to a professional dominatrix. In this one-night-only class, Brendan will discuss turning pain into prose.
ABOUT BRENDAN: Brendan Kiley was born in an Alaskan fishing town and has lived all over the coastal U.S., as well as Spain, the Czech Republic, and Japan. He has written for the Boston Globe, the Utne Reader, Newsweek, the Forward, and the Stranger.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
PAYMENT
Tickets for the 2010 season are processed via Brown Paper Tickets. Brown Paper Tickets accepts Visa, MasterCard, and Discover credit cards.
TAX
Washington State sales tax is included in the price of all tickets.
TICKETS FOR THE 2010 SEASON
Tickets for the 2010 Season are available via Brown Paper Tickets. All tickets buyers are added to a check-in list; a paper ticket is not required. Tickets will be available on-line up until five hours before the event. If any tickets remain, they will be available at the Greenwood Space Travel Supply Co. the day of the event.
IN-PERSON TICKETS
Tickets for all workshops are available for purchase in person at the Greenwood Space Travel Supply Co. during regular store hours, any time prior to the workshop.
Prepaid tickets only – no reservations.
REFUNDS
All sales are final; no refunds will be granted for unused tickets. If you have any questions, please contact Justin Allan, 826 Seattle Events Coordinator, at justinallan@826seattle.org or 206-725-2625.
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