BECOMING THE
WRITER YOU WERE MEANT TO BE
A SPECIAL ZONA ROSA
WRITING WORKSHOP
WITH ROSEMARY
DANIELLAT THE PARKER RANCH - CLAYTON, GA
IN THE NORTHEAST
GEORGIA MOUNTAINS
THURSDAY EVENING
8/4 THROUGH SUNDAY 8/7, 2016
“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.
During the workshop, Rosemary will discuss how to:
• Use
writing as a tool for healing and spiritual growth
• Jumpstart
your writing and blast through blocks
• 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!
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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 Parker Ranch
August 4 – 7, 2016
Residential Fee: $540 (double occupancy) includes lodging,
wine & cheese meet & greet on Thursday, breakfast and lunch on Friday,
Saturday and Sunday
Non-Residential Fee: $410 includes wine & cheese meet &
greet, breakfast and lunch on Friday, Saturday and
Sunday
*** We only have one ‘single’ room … 3 rooms have two full beds and
one room has one full bed and 2 twin beds. All rooms have private baths. If you
do not want to share a room, there is a very reasonable, clean motel in Clayton
only two miles from the Parker Ranch.***
To register, contact: Becky Hoover at becky@parkersranch.com
Registrants will be invited to mail a short writing sample to
Rosemary in advance.
If you have further questions, please Becky at 404-373-0566.
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 seven other
books of poetry, fiction and nonfiction
www.myzonarosa.com twitter:
@myzonarosa
912-655-3457 (cell)