Red Room Where the Writers Are

ONE SPOT LEFT!

Jenny Pritchett will lead a private creative-writing workshop in her
home in San Francisco beginning Wednesday, October 29, from 7-10 p.m.
The workshop will be kept small to facilitate as much personal
attention as possible. Cost is $250.

The workshop is intensive; each member will be workshopped each week,
which means writing and revising are paramount. We begin with group
writing exercises, as well as personalized exercises extrapolating
from each writer's work, which Jenny will design. She will moderate
each workshop, encouraging each writer to respond compassionately yet
complexly to each other's work; we will discuss constructive
feedback. A weekly page-count limit will be given, with complete
flexibility on what you bring in--this is your workshop, after all.
Finally, Jenny will offer extensive comments and suggestions for
revision; some academic discussion of craft, with handouts; and
possibly some short reading assignments for discussion.

Call 415-867-1692 or email jennypritchett@hotmail.com to register.

About Jenny: Jenny Pritchett's debut collection, At or Near the
Surface, is due out from Fourteen Hills Press in Fall 2008. The
collection won the 2008 Michael Rubin Chapbook Award, judged by Tin
House managing editor Holly MacArthur. Stories have appeared or are
upcoming in Southwest Review, Northwest Review, Boulevard, Salt Hill,
and Fiction Attic; her story "Bugaboo" was chosen by Steve Almond for
the Best of the Web 2008 anthology from Dzanc Books.

A former editor and journalist, Jenny has written nonfiction work for
Bitch, Girlfriends, and Northwestern magazines, the San Francisco Bay
Guardian, the San Francisco Examiner, Salon.com, and SFGate.com. She
has been awarded fellowships and a residency from the Ragdale
Foundation in Lake Forest, Illinois, and a fellowship from the Squaw
Valley Community of Writers in California. Jenny holds a degree in
magazine journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of
Journalism and an MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State
University. The former managing editor of Fourteen Hills, she has
taught or spoken to students about writing, American literature, and
literary journals at SFSU, California College of the Arts, and
Ex'Pression College for Digital Arts. She lives and writes in San Francisco.

WHAT STUDENTS ARE SAYING:
"Jenny is extremely effective at motivating, and deconstructing the
class message."
"The assignments were a joy to do--recommended with great enthusiasm!"
"Everything in this class furthered my love of writing."
"This was the best class I've had at State during my years here."
"Engaging...effective...fun...great learning environment...great
format...safe and comfortable space to share work."

WHAT CRITICS ARE SAYING ABOUT "AT OR NEAR THE SURFACE":
"Jenny Pritchett's [story] 'Born and Raised' delivers a masterful and
unsentimental handling of a topic which, though hugely emotional and
highly sensitive, can be overdone and become an unintentional
self-parody. But Pritchett closes the story with a scene that is at
once surprising, heart-wrenching, and satisfying." NewPages

"In fifteen wonderful stories, Jenny Pritchett stirs up a remarkable
amount of grit and glory. These characters, as they stumble through
their loves and losses, will remind you just how dangerous it is to
be alive." Robin Romm, author of The Mother Garden and The Mercy Papers