"Memory and Myth"--the Hollyhock Institute Workshop, on the Left Coast, June 2014

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Behrens Memory & Myth: Transforming Personal History Jun 1 - 6, 2014 Presented by: Peter Behrens Writing Shape personal history, family mythology, and memory into written memoir or fiction. Participants will focus on organizing, writing, revising, and polishing one memoir essay, short story, or key chapter. In the workshop process, directed by Peter Behrens, writers analyze, criticize, and respond to each other’s work in a helpful and energizing atmosphere. For some participants, the workshop experience will jump-start the longer journey of writing a book. Peter Behrens’ novel The Law of Dreams won the Governor General’s Literary Award in 2006, was a finalist for Amazon.ca’s Best First Novel Award, and has been published in nine languages. In 2012 the New New York Times called Behrens’ second novel The O’Briens, ‘a major accomplishment”. Behrens’ stories and essays have appeared in Granta, The Atlantic Monthly, New York Times, Short Story, The Globe & Mail, Best Canadian Essays, Best Canadian Stories, Saturday Night,  Brick, and have been broadcast on National Public Radio in the US and Europe and CBC Radio in Canada. Behrens is the author of two collections of short stories, Night Driving and Travelling Light. A native of Montreal, he held the Wallace D Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University and has worked as a screenwriter in Los Angeles. In 2013 Peter Behrens was a Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. He teaches at Colorado College and lives on the coast of Maine with his wife and son. peterbehrens.org TUITION: $565 CDN / 5 nights  (meals & accommodation extra)