BECOMING THE WRITER
YOU WERE MEANT TO BE
A SPECIAL ZONA ROSA
WRITING WORKSHOP
WITH ROSEMARY DANIELL
AT HERON HOUSE IN ROSWELL,
GEORGIA (NEAR ATLANTA)
SATURDAY, JULY 23, 2016
10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
“Rosemary Daniell is one of the great writing teachers
I have seen at work in this country.” - Pat Conroy
“She has . . . proved just
how earthy, inspiring, and even rapturous . . . the writing process can be.” - People
magazine,
“Rosemary Daniell is enormously gifted. Her work is risky in the
best sense of the word. She is one of the women by whom our age will be known
in times to come.” - Erica Jong
photo credit:
Jonathan Phillips
“When are you going to stop pretending you don’t know who you
are and what you were sent here to do?” - a Jewish
Rabbi
When
Rosemary Daniell founded Zona Rosa, the series of writing-and-living workshops
she leads in Savannah, Atlanta, all over the country and abroad, over 34 years
ago, she based them on the principle “accentuate the positive, eliminate the
negative,” as in the words of the song by Johnny Mercer. Since then, the
success this philosophy has been born out: over 160 Zona Rosans and counting
have become published authors.
At
Heron House on Sat, July 23, she will continue this tradition, addressing such
subjects as how to:
•
Use
writing as a tool for healing and spiritual growth
•
Jumpstart
your writing and blast through blocks
•
How
to uncover (and believe in) your secret genius
•
Find
the story that only you can tell
•
Discover
your own style and voice
•
Develop
a personal criteria for your work
•
Set timelines
that help you meet life-and-writing goals
•
Use “exorcises,” credos
and acronyms to facilitate your work
•
Live
in what Rosemary calls a continual “Creative Burst”'
•
And
most importantly, make writing as easy and fun as walking through clouds!
She
will also address, as discussed in her book Secrets of the Zona Rosa: How
Writing and Sisterhood Can Change Women’s Lives, how to get the most out of
a writing group, and also how to contribute to the
discussion of others’ manuscripts in a meaningful way.
The
location: The Heron House, 102 Russell Road, Roswell, GA. To register,
contact: Julie West, heronhouse102@gmail.com
Cost:
$125 Registrants will be invited to mail a short writing sample to
Rosemary in advance.
If
you have further questions, please call Carolyn Graham at 770-894-1050
ROSEMARY DANIELL is the award-winning author of nine
books of poetry and prose, including Secrets of the Zona Rosa:
How Writing (and Sisterhood) Can Change Women's Lives and The Woman Who Spilled Words All Over
Herself: Writing and Living the Zona Rosa Way. Her memoir, Fatal
Flowers: On Sin, Sex and Suicide in the Deep South, won the 1999
Palimpsest Prize for a most-requested out-of-print book. Along with her second
memoir, Sleeping with Soldiers, it
was a forerunner of the current memoir trend. Her five other books are a
collection of essays, Confessions of a (Female) Chauvinist:, a
novel, The Hurricane Season; two collections of poetry, A Sexual Tour
of the Deep South and Fort Bragg & Other Points South; and
a chapbook, The Feathered Trees. Rosemary’s work has been featured in many
magazines and papers,
including Harper’s Bazaar, New York Woman, Self, Mademoiselle, Travel
& Leisure, The New York Times Book Review and Mother Jones; she
has also been a guest on many national radio and television shows, such
as "The
Merve Griffin Show,” “Donahue,”
"The Diane Rehm Show,” "Larry King Live" and CNN’s “Portrait of
America.” She is profiled in the book Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975. In 2008, she
received a Governor’s Award in the Humanities for her impact on the state of
Georgia. For further information, see Rosemary’s web page at www.myzonarosa.com
“This is happiness: to be dissolved into something great.” -
Rebecca West
Rosemary Daniell/Zona Rosa
award-winning author
of SECRETS OF THE ZONA ROSA: HOW WRITING
(AND SISTERHOOD) CAN CHANGE WOMEN'S LIVESand eight other books
of poetry, fiction and nonfiction
www.myzonarosa.com twitter:
@myzonarosa
912-655-3457 (cell)