The Winter Getaway is well known for its challenging and
supportive workshops led by accomplished writers and artists. We hope you will get to know our faculty, first online, and then in person in January.
 Michelle
Cameron's debut historical novel, The Fruit of Her Hands: the
story of Shira of Ashkenaz, was published by Simon & Schuster's
Pocket Books in September 2009. Publisher's Weekly praised the
novel's "powerful immediacy" and Library Journal its "rich
details." Michelle's novel in verse, In the Shadow of the Globe, was
published by Lit Pot Press in late 2003. It received excellent
critical reviews, was named the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey's
2003-4 Winter Book Selection, and was dramatically performed in
several venues, including the Stella Adler School of the Arts and
the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway. Michelle is also Associate
Director of The Writers Circle, which offers creative writing workshops for
children and adults. Her website is
www.michelle-cameron.com.
** Michelle will lead the
Beginning
Your Novel workshop.**
 Robbie Clipper has published two novels-in-stories under
the name Robbie Clipper Sethi, The Bride Wore Red (Picador, 1997) and Fifty-Fifty
(Silicon Press, 2003), as well as short
stories in
The Atlantic Monthly, Mademoiselle, the Philadelphia Inquirer,
and a number of literary magazines and anthologies. Her
fiction has won a National Endowment for the Arts award and two
fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Robbie
teaches fiction, poetry, expository writing, and literature at Rider
University in Lawrenceville, NJ and on a Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship
spent a "monsoon semester" (August-December 2009) teaching creative
writing at the International Institute of Information Technology in
Hyderabad, India. Her website is
www.robbieclippersethi.com.
** Robbie will lead the
Visions and Revision
workshop.**
 Judy Copeland is a California
attorney who left the law to backpack around Oceania, Asia, and
Africa, staying with families she met along the way. Her travel
stories have appeared recently in Alaska Quarterly Review,
Legal
Studies Forum, and Malahat Review and have been shortlisted in
the Pushcart anthology and in Best American Essays and Best
American Travel Writing. She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction
from the University of Iowa and is an associate professor of
writing at Stockton College.
** Judy will lead The Art & Craft of Creative Nonfiction
workshop.**
 Anndee Hochman writes feature articles, profiles, and
essays about education, health, and the wide, quirky spectrum of
family and community life, including issues of adoption, foster
care, reproductive technology, same-sex couples, and intentional
community. In addition to her regular pieces in the
Philadelphia Inquirer, her work has appeared in O, the
Oprah Magazine, Health, Working Mother,
Marie Claire, and online in Literary Mama. She is the
author of Anatomies: A Novella and Stories (Picador 2000)
and Everyday Acts & Small Subversions: Women Reinventing
Family, Community and Home (The Eighth Mountain Press,
1994). For the past 18 years, Anndee has taught writing to
children, teens, and adults in a variety of settings, including
schools, senior centers, and a small fishing village on Mexico's
Pacific coast. Her website is
www.anndeehochman.com.
** Anndee will lead the
Turning Memory into Memoir
workshop.**
 Barbara Hurd is the author of Walking the Wrack
Line: On Tidal Shifts and What Remains (2008), Entering
the Stone: On Caves and Feeling Through the Dark, a Library
Journal Best Natural History Book of the Year (2003), The
Singer's Temple (2003), Stirring the Mud: On Swamps,
Bogs, and Human Imagination, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of
2001 (2001), and Objects in this Mirror (1994). Her
work has appeared in numerous journals including Best
American Essays 1999, Best American Essays 2001,
The Yale Review, The Georgia Review, Orion,
Audubon, and others. The recipient of a 2002 NEA Fellowship
for Creative Nonfiction, winner of the Sierra Club's National
Nature Writing Award, three Pushcart Prizes, and a 2010 Maryland
State Arts Council Award for Fiction, she teaches in the
Stonecoast MFA program at the University of Southern Maine. Her
website is www.barbarahurd.com.
** Barbara will lead the
What Matters is Not
What Happened
workshop.**
 Thomas
Peele is an investigative reporter and lecturer at the
University of California, Berkeley, who has won more than 45
journalism awards during a career on both coasts. His first book,
Killing The Messenger, an examination of Black Muslim cults and
the 2007 murder of Oakland, Calif. journalist Chauncey Bailey, was published by the Crown Books division of Random House in February
2012. Peele's essay on the collapse of the Knight Ridder newspaper
company, "Oligarchies I Have Known," won the 2006 Association of
Writers and Writing Programs' Intro Journals Award and was published
in Controlled Burn. His work has also appeared in Columbia
Journalism Review, Newsday, and the San Francisco Bay
Guardian. Peele holds an MFA in writing from the University of
San Francisco and lives in Oakland, California with his wife and twin
daughters. You can read an excerpt of
Killing The Messenger on his website
www.thomaspeele.com.
** Tom will lead
The Art & Craft of Creative Nonfiction - Advanced
workshop.**
 Carol Plum-Ucci
is the author of six Harcourt novels and a memoir, Homeschooling
Abbey: Your Basic Mom Tries Home Education & Tells All
(2008). Her latest novel, Fire Will
Fall (2010), is the sequel to the
9/11 inspired Streams of Babel (2008). The Body of
Christopher Creed (2000) was named a Michael L. Printz Award
Honor Book by the American Library Association. Carol has twice
been a finalist in the Edgar Allan Poe Awards and was a Book One
New Jersey author in 2004. Her website is
www.carolplumucci.com.
** Carol will lead the
Finishing Your Novel
workshop.**
 Richard K. Weems
is the author of Anything He Wants, winner of the
Spire Fiction Award and finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book
Award, as well as the Cheap Stories eBook series, available
at
Amazon,
Barnes & Noble,
Smashwords, and iBooks. He is the founder and director
of the BCA Summer Writing Program, and his short story
publications include North American Review, The
Gettysburg Review, Other Voices, The
Mississippi Review, Crescent Review, Pif
Magazine, The Florida Review, Barcelona
Review, and The Beloit Fiction Journal. His website
links to some of his online stories:
www.weemsnet.net.
** Rich will lead the
Writing and Publishing Your Fiction
workshop.**
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