Instructor: Judith Huge
Monday - Friday
August 11 - 15
10am - 12pm
5 sessions at Edgewood Farm

Whether writing fiction or non-fiction, poetry or prose, we draw from our own lives what Michael Cunningham calls “those significant emotional, moral, and aesthetic truths that tend to conceal themselves among…everyday events.” Mining the ordinary—the faces and places, objects and experiences that have shaped us—allows us to craft characters the reader will later “pine for,” settings that become living characters in our stories, complications that move our stories forward, and images that awaken the metaphorical memories that sleep inside our readers. Working closely with each other and with your own writing, either ongoing or created using prompts from this workshop, we will be exploring the extraordinary possibilities offered when we delve more deeply into the ordinary. While one of our objectives is to craft short, polished pieces that can either stand alone or be included in longer works, another will be helping each writer develop a longer-range plan for developing his or her own writing project or practice.

 Judith Huge has spent over 40 years developing innovative approaches to both learning and writing.  As president of her own national consulting firm, teacher of both undergraduate and graduate-level college courses, and director of writing workshops across the country, she has made a difference in the way thousands of people find, craft, and promote their writing voices.  Former board chair of the International Women’s Writing Guild based in New York, she has taught for summer conferences at, among other venues, Skidmore, Brown, Yale, Muhlenberg, and Endicott Colleges as well as at Truro Center for the Arts in Massachusetts. Recently moved to Maryland, for the past ten years, she has conducted writing workshops for the OLLI Program at the University of South Florida.

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